Congratulations to the winners of the 2025 Research Week poster awards!

Center Prizes

Center for Health Policy and Research
Lila Basnet
Poster title: Effect of Paid Sick Leave on Children and Parents

Clinical Trials Statistical & Data Management Center
Fangfang Jiang
Poster title: Robust Dose-Toxicity Estimation in Small Samples: A Shrinkage-Based Approach

Healthier Workforce Center of the Midwest
Gift Udoh
Poster title: Pesticide Safety Practices among Smallholder Farmers in Kuje Nigeria: An Observational Study

Injury Prevention Research Center
Ella Mucciolo
Poster title: Enhancing Teen Driver Hazard Anticipation: A Parent-Focused Intervention

Institute for Public Health Practice, Research and Policy
Emma Knobloch
Poster title: “PCB Goddesses”: A Pioneering Partnership to Protect Vermont Schoolchildren from Environmental Contaminants

Max Hansen

Poster title: Mobile Clinics for Brain Health Equity: A Feasibility Study of Dementia Risk Reduction in Underserved Communities

RUPRI Center for Rural Health Policy
Ferney Henao-Ceballos
Poster title: Improving Prehospital Stroke Destination Decisions with a Bayesian Predictive Algorithm

Iowa Cancer Registry
Bradley McDowell
Poster title: From free text to structured insight: Querying CAP reports for neoadjuvant breast cancer therapy outcomes

Collegiate Prizes

Undergraduate Public Health Poster
Kasia Janik
Poster Title: Analysis of 2,2′,5,5′-Tetrachlorobiphenyl-4-ol (4-OH-PCB52) in Liver Tissue of Female Adolescent Rats Exposed via Polymeric Implants

Research Week General Submission Posters
Nicole Breese
Poster Title: Sex-Specific Hepatic Responses after 7-Week Oral Exposure to a Human-Relevant Polychlorinated Biphenyl Mixture in Mice

Morgan Linahon
Poster Title: Correlation Between PCB52 Metabolites and Bacteria Abundance in the Gut Microbiome of Male Adolescent Rats: A Multi-Omics Study

Md Abu Eabrahim Siddique
Poster Title: The Role of Exosomes in Pulmonary Inflammation Induced by Nanoparticle Inhalation

And thank you to all the poster presenters who attended! Below is a list of participants and their poster topics.

Morning Session

Mojirade Adetoba
Dietary PFAS exposure among Infants: A review of sources, analytical methods, regional variations, intake and risk.

Benita Amos
Zoonotic Spillover and Disease Emergence: A Mini Review of Treatment and Toxicity

Amanuel Bahru
Exposure Assessment of Bisphenol A (BPA) and Alternatives in Homes

Nicole Breese
Sex-Specific Hepatic Responses after 7-Week Oral Exposure to a Human-Relevant Polychlorinated Biphenyl Mixture in Mice

Harry Bui
A Community-Engaged, Mixed-Methods Approach to Defining the Role of Preventive Measures and Access to Care for Kidney Disease in Iowa

Ferney Henao-Ceballos
Improving Prehospital Stroke Destination Decisions with a Bayesian Predictive Algorithm

Faith Ibitoye
From Supervision to Safety: Empowering Parents to Teach Hazard Anticipation to Teen Drivers Using HazAPP

Mahbube Jafari
Exploring the Oral Virome in Metabolic Syndrome and Obesity

Kasia Janik
Analysis of 2,2′,5,5′-Tetrachlorobiphenyl-4-ol (4-OH-PCB52) in Liver Tissue of Female Adolescent Rats Exposed via Polymeric Implants

Emily Janio
Educate, Recommend, Refer: An Intervention to Prepare Dental Professionals to Promote the HPV Vaccine

Stephanie Jansson
Causal inference for surrogate marker validation: How the counterfactual universe can aid clinical decision-making

Emma Knobloch
“PCB Goddesses”: A Pioneering Partnership to Protect Vermont Schoolchildren from Environmental Contaminants 

Dongkeun Lee
Inhaled Copper Nanoparticles Induce Pulmonary Inflammation, Blood-Brain Barrier Leakage, and Brain Accumulation in a Late-Onset Alzheimer’s Disease Mouse Model

Xueshu Li
Untargeted Metabolomics Reveals Neurochemical Pathways Altered by PCB and PFAS Accumulation in the Human Brain

Morgan Linahon
Correlation Between PCB52 Metabolites and Bacteria Abundance in the Gut Microbiome of Male Adolescent Rats: A Multi-Omics Study

Bradley McDowell
From free text to structured insight: Querying CAP reports for neoadjuvant breast cancer therapy outcomes

Ella Mucciolo
Enhancing Teen Driver Hazard Anticipation: A Parent-Focused Intervention

Erin Wissler Gerdes
Under Pressure: Anxiety’s Impact on Mom and Dad Rage

Patrick T. Zamba
A Multicenter Comparison of Recurrent Clostridioides difficile Infection Rates After Stem Cell Transplant Among Patients Treated with Oral Vancomycin or Fidaxomicin

Afternoon Session

Lila Basnet
Effect of Paid Sick Leave on Children and Parents

Oluwatobiloba Da-Silva
Diphenyl Diselenide Counteracts Doxorubicin-Induced Neurotoxicity Via Antioxidant, Anti-inflammatory and Anti-apoptotic Mechanisms: Implications as a Neuroprotective Agent in Chemotherapy

Amir Ghanbari
E-bike Rider Safety: A Literature Review on Numbers, Outcomes, and Causes of Crashes, Injuries, and Deaths

Alexandra Gutierrez
Counting Astrocytes: A Flow Cytometry Screen for Culture Purity

Max Hansen
Mobile Clinics for Brain Health Equity: A Feasibility Study of Dementia Risk Reduction in Underserved Communities

Sophia Heim
Voluntary Oral Dosing of Polychlorinated Biphenyls in Mice: A Refinement of Traditional Gavage Techniques

Kailey Henkle
An Agent-Based Model Approach to Understanding CDI Spread in a Regional Hospital Network

Fangfang Jiang
Robust Dose-Toxicity Estimation in Small Samples: A Shrinkage-Based Approach

Emily Killian
ADRD Caregivers’ Hesitancy to Receive Preparedness Program: Caregiving Context and Resilience

Dane Lew
Biotransformation of 6:2 Fluorotelomer Alcohol by Rainbow Trout, Rat, and Frog Liver Assays

Maleeha Naseem
The potential and utility of AI in predicting pediatric trauma: Past, Present and Future

Milica Pavlovic
Acute Polyamide Micro- and nanoplastic Aerosol Exposure Alters Ciliary Motility and Mucus Secretion in Primary Human Bronchial Epithelial Cells

Emily Roberts
Formation of the Causal Inference Collaboratory

Md Abu Eabrahim Siddique
The Role of Exosomes in Pulmonary Inflammation Induced by Nanoparticle Inhalation

Gift Udoh
Pesticide Safety Practices among Smallholder Farmers in Kuje Nigeria: An Observational Study

Kai Wang
Forget MR-Egger: Valid two-sample Mendelian randomization with invalid instruments