The Carrie M. Craig Summer Research Fellowship Program

The Carrie M. Craig Fellowship Program enables selected medical students to engage in research under the guidance of a research mentor the summer between their first and second years. The research must be conducted at UICOMP, and the research mentor must have a UICOMP faculty appointment. Prospective fellows are eligible to receive a $3,000 stipend and are expected to work on their project during the summer months. All actively enrolled M1 students who are in good academic standing are encouraged to apply, regardless of prior research experience.

Application Guidelines

Eligibility: UICOMP students only (MD/PhD students are not eligible) Only students who are academically eligible will be considered for a Craig fellowship. Students who have more than one unmet requirement at the time of application are ineligible. Students may only participate in one summer fellowship program. Students must be active and not on a leave of absence.

Applications are now closed, selected fellows will be announced April 2023.

Projects

Year	Name	Project Title	Mentor	Department
2021	Abdullah Arif	Adolescents’ adherence to a weight management program using technology to track health goals: A comparison of those with and without executive dysfunction	Tiffany Abrego, PhD	Psychiatry & Behavioral Medicine
2021	Matthew Grammer	Determining the Effect of Dectin-1 Signaling Deficiency on Cognition in an Alzheimer’s Disease Mouse Model	Ken-Ichiro Fukuchi, MD, PhD	Cancer Biology & Pharmacology
2021	Ajoke Maryam Iromini	How teen pregnancy correlates with access to outpatient contraception in high-risk community	Kaleb Jacobs, DO	Obstetrics & Gynecology
2021	DiReon Lowry	Family Medicine Preceptors: An Assessment of Needs	Gauri Shevatekar, MBBS, MPH, CHES	Family & Community Medicine
2021	Dina Nashed	Family Medicine Preceptors: An Assessment of Needs	Gauri Shevatekar, MBBS, MPH, CHES	Family & Community Medicine
2021	Michael Neff	Exploratory Analysis of Lymphocyte RNA-Seq Data in Septicemic Mus musculus induced with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia	Peter Gyarmati, PhD	Cancer Biology & Pharmacology
2021	David Qi	Proximal Catheter Occlusion Study	Julian Lin, MD	Neurosurgery
2021	Vinay Sama	Evaluation of the effect of MMP-12 suppression on post-stroke M1/M2 polarization dynamics of microglia/macrophages	Krishna Veeravalli, PhD	Cancer Biology & Pharmacology
2020	Melissa Dominguez	Disparities Affecting Health Outcomes by Medical Conditions Within Inpatient Care	Gauri Shevatekar, MBBS, MPH, CHES	Family & Community Medicine
2020	Katherine Floess	Disparities Affecting Health Outcomes by Medical Conditions Within Inpatient Care	Gauri Shevatekar, MBBS, MPH, CHES	Family & Community Medicine
2020	Nejla Ghane	Adolescents’ Adherence to Weight Management Program Using Technology to Track Health Goals: a comparison of those with and without executitve dysfunction	Tiffany Abrego, PhD	Psychiatry & Behavioral Medicine
2020	Ayse Elif Kesaf	Investigating the Interplay Between B7-H3 and Autophagy Pathways in Medulloblastoma	Swapna Asuthkar, PhD	Cancer Biology & Pharmacology
2020	Cassandra Palmer	Effect of Genetic Deletion of MyD88 on Post-Stroke Neurological Outcome	Krishna Veeravalli, PhD	Cancer Biology & Pharmacology
2020	Sergio Serafin	Multivariate Analysis of Loss of Consciousness vs Length of Stay	Mark Gonzalez, MD/PhD	Orthopaedic Surgery
2019	Chris Eberlin	Genetic Basis of Bleeding in Hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome	Rohith Jesudas, MD	Pediatrics (BCDI)
2019	Kurt Hanebrink	Association Between Multiple Sclerosis and ResidentialConsumption of Pollutive Energy	Carl Asche, PhD	Center for Outcomes Research
2019	Bryan Makowski	Incidence of anti-TNF associated hepatic insufficiency as compared to non-TNF targeted immunotherapies for treating spondyloarthritides(SpA), psoriasis and rheumatoid arthritis	Carl Asche, PhD	Center for Outcomes Research
2019	Ryan Martin	Effect of MMP-12 suppression on post-stroke neurological outcome	Krishna Veeravalli, PhD	Cancer Biology & Pharmacology
2019	Mohammed Mirza	Mitochondrial DNA Degradation in Neurologic Disease: Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s	Pedro de Alarcon, MD	Pediatrics
2019	Breanna Sullivan	Effects of Glenosphere Size on Shoulder Range of Motion PostReverse Total Shoulder Arthroplasty	Miguel Ramirez, MD	Surgery (Orthopedics)
2019	Brock Taylor	Does administration of intravenous acetaminophen in the immediate post-operative period decrease cumulative opioid use in pediatric patients?	Anil Kumar Swayampakula, MD MPH	Pediatrics
2018	David Gao	Trafficking of testosterone receptor TRPM8 to plasma membrane	Ella Zakharian, PhD	Cancer Biology & Pharmacology
2018	Laura Jorgenson	Attenuation of the severity of post-ischemic inflammation: effect on the neurological recovery of stroke-induced rats	Krishna Veeravalli, PhD	Cancer Biology & Pharmacology
2018	Andrew Schaver	Effect of prone positioning on Ulnar Nerve injuries	Miguel Ramirez, MD	Surgery (Orthopedics)
2018	Wade Smith	Small molecule inhibition of EZH2 Suppresses B7-H3 expression and medulloblastoma cell proliferation	Swapna Asuthkar, PhD	Cancer Biology & Pharmacology