The William Beaumont Research Awards are given to three students for outstanding research accomplishments from work submitted for publication in Fusion, the student-run research magazine at GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences.
The recipients of the 2023-24 William Beaumont Research Awards are:
- Vincent Xu, MSII
“Efficacy of Cytoreductive Cystectomy in Metastatic Urothelial Bladder Cancer Based on Site of Metastasis”
Mentor: Michael Whalen; Department of Urology, George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences - Sarah Cho, MSII
“Associations between abnormal glucose regulation in pregnancy and offspring adiposity, insulin resistance, and adipokine markers during childhood and adolescence”
Mentor: Marie-France Hivert; Division of Chronic Disease Research Across the Life Course, Department of Population Medicine, Harvard Medical School, and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute - Kathleen Webber, MSIII
“MRI Changes in the Cochlea as a Predictor of Clinically Significant Hearing Loss in Children Receiving Ototoxic Chemotherapy for Treatment of Brain Tumors”
Mentor: Shweta Bansil; Department of Oncology, Children’s National Hospital