RSP Scholars Cohort 3 (2023-2024)

2023-24 RESEARCH SCHOLARS (COHORT 3)

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Deirdre Dlugonski

College of Health Sciences
Research interests: Community-based approaches for designing effective, sustainable, and scalable interventions to increase physical activity among women, children, and families that improve health equity

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Yasminka Jakubek

College of Medicine​
Research interests: Etiology of acquired mutations in cancer and non-cancer tissues and the utility of mutational profiles for improved disease risk stratification in cancer and other chronic diseases

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Anel Jaramillo

College of Pharmacy
Research interests: Dissecting neuronal pathways driving alcohol use disorder, anxiety and the interactions between these domains

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Jayani Jayawardhana

College of Public Health
Research interests: Substance use policy research, health disparities, large secondary data analyses

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Courtney Perry

College of Medicine
Research interests: Disparities in Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) outcomes, Appalachian Health 

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Rosana Zenil-Ferguson

College of Arts & Sciences
Research interests: Evolutionary biology, speciation and extinction of land plants, phylogenetic comparative models for trait evolution and diversification