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Research Day 2025

Oral and Poster Presentation Winners

Graduate Students and Postdoctoral Fellows

• Dr. Anukool Bhopatkar (Postdoc-Pharmacology/Toxicology)
• Aditi Rudrashetty  (Neuroscience)
• Jordan Hart (Physiology & Biophysics
• John Crawford (Microbiology & Immunology)
• Jacob Haskell (Neuroscience)
• Goodness Adegbola (Neuroscience)
• Dr. Manar Eissa (Postdoc-Pharmacology/Toxicology)
• Arunendu Ettuthaiyil Sambasivan (Biomedical Materials Science-PhD)
• Christy Chambers (Exp. Therapeutics & Pharmacology)
• Komal Beeton (Microbiology and Immunology)
• Sheetal Chowdhury (Biomedical Materials Science-PhD)
• Dr. Cristiane Favoretto (Postdoc-Psychiatry)
• Md Fahim Khan (Microbiology and Immunology)

For a complete list of Distinguished Alumni winners from Research Days past, please click here. 

2025 Research Day

The annual School of Graduate Studies in the Health Sciences' Research Day was held Nov. 7, 2025, in the Norman C. Nelson Student Union at UMMC. The event began with oral presentations from graduate students and postdoctoral research fellows. Following oral and poster presentations, we hosted the Distinguished Alumni ceremony honoring two distinguished alumni, Dr. Joey Granger and Dr. Jared Cobb.