Research Day winners

Nearly 250 people attended Le Bonheur’s sixth annual Pediatric Research Day, held Nov. 20, 2013. Winners among the 135 poster presentations, selected by a panel of 15 judges, were:

General competition winners

Greg I. Lee
Effects of environmentally persistent free radicals on severity of neonatal influenza infection

Dahui You
Limited pDC and type I IFN responses permit Th2-biased responses in mice initially infected as neonates

Bindiya Bagga
Investigating mucosal and humoral immune correlates of respiratory syncytial virus protection in infants: An interim analysis

Mark Weems
Management of urinary tract infections in young infants less than forty-nine weeks postmenstrual age

Carol O'Hear
Anti-CD33 chimeric antigen receptor therapy for acute myeloid leukemia

Errin Marie Newman
Update on the CHAMP program: The successes and challenges of building a successful community-based program for high-risk asthma patients in Memphis

Medical student winners

MacLean House
Surgical Apgar score is associated with cardiac troponin leak and myocardial infarction after non-cardiac surgery

Elizabeth Ockerman
Terminating type 1 diabetes with enhanced CD8 regulatory T cells

Kristie Chang
Permissive contributions of prostacyclin and NO to cerebral vasodilation to H2S in newborn pigs