This is a special two-part episode with the poster and podium winners from our annual Holman Day celebration. In part 1 we speak with the winners in the basic and translational science category.
Dr. Shaunak Adkar is a professional development resident in our Vascular Surgery Residency Program. He shares how he got involved in the Leeper Lab, finding a mentor in new faculty member Dr. Derek Klarin, and how he used a genome-wide association study to reveal shared heritability between intracranial aneurysms with aortic aneurysms and atherosclerosis.
Dr. Deshka Foster joins Scrubcast once again, but this time to talk about a different part of the fibroblast continuum: abdominal adhesions. Her winning presentation “Avoiding a ‘sticky’ situation: Translation of a sustained-release therapeutic to prevent abdominal adhesions” was six years in the making. She talks about her groundbreaking research and the importance of constantly digging deeper into a project.
Holman Day is Stanford Surgery’s celebration of all things science. It is named after Dr. Emile Holman, the founder of academic surgery at Stanford University. Learn more: https://surgery.stanford.edu/holman/2023.html
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