2020 Medical Student Research Scholars

Genentech Scholars
Scholar	Research Institution	Research Project	MS Research Mentor
Akash Chopra	Centre for Brain Health, The University of British Columbia	Canadian Progression Cohort in MS (CanProCo) – Baseline Analysis	Dr. Shannon Kolind
Sarah Frankl	Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia	A Review of Tumefactive Lesions in Pediatric Demyelination	Dr. Brenda Banwell and Dr. Sarah Hopkins
Sanya Jacob	The University of British Columbia MS/MRI Research Group	Pilot study of positron emission tomography (PET) imaging: Correlations with advance MRI in MS	Dr. Robert Carruthers
Geoffrey Liang	Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health, The University of British Columbia	The Gut Microbiota and Pediatric Multiple Sclerosis	Dr. Helen Tremlett
Bristol Myers Squibb Research Scholar
Scholar	Research Institution	Research Project		MS Research Mentor
Austin Beltrand	University of Maryland, Baltimore	The Role of RGC-32 in regulating astrocyte differentiation in multiple sclerosis		Dr. Horea Rus
Inserra Family Research Scholar
Scholar	Research Institution	Research Project		MS Research Mentor
Lynn Daboul	Mellen Center for Multiple Sclerosis, Cleveland Clinic	Evaluating the Clinical Performance of the Central Vein Sign in the Diagnosis of Multiple Sclerosis		Dr. Daniel Ontaneda
Sanofi Genzyme Research Scholars
Scholar	Research Institution	Research Project		MS Research Mentor
Juweiriya Ahmed	Pediatric MS and Neuroinflammatory Disorders Center, The Hospital for Sick Children	Associations of structural visual metrics with psychosocial outcomes and physical activity in youth with MS-related neuroinflammatory disorders (MOG/NMOSD)		Dr. E. Ann Yeh
Elias Bou Farhat	American University of Beirut, Beirut Lebanon	Human Monocyte Derived Microglia Like Cells (MDMi): Differential Marker Expression and Cytokine Profile in Multiple Sclerosis		Dr. Samia Khoury
Calin Dumitrescu	Medical College of Wisconsin	Changes in Immunoglobulins and Lymphocytes in the Peripheral Blood of Patients Receiving B-cell-depleting Therapies for Multiple Sclerosis and Related Disorders		Dr. Ahmed Obeidat
Sean Hamill	University of Massachusetts Medical School	Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders in Patients with Multiple Sclerosis		Dr. Carolina Ionete
Foundation of the CMSC Research Scholars
Scholar	Research Institution	Research Project		MS Research Mentor
Vijay Letchuman	NIH-NINDS, Dept of Translational Neuroradiology Section	The diagnostic potential of the central vein sign in multiple sclerosis using a fully automated image analysis tool (CVSnet): A prospective multicenter pilot study		Dr. Daniel Reich
Kamyar Taheri	University of British Columbia	Developing an imaging marker for MS progression for prospective and retrospective studies		Dr. Shannon Kolind
Garrett Timmons	University of California, San Diego	Understanding COVID-19 Infection Patients with Multiple Sclerosis; an EPIC EMR Review		Dr. Jennifer Graves
Alex Waldman	University of Oxford & National Institutes of Health	Genetic and Biochemical Examination of Multiple Sclerosis Susceptibility		Dr. Gabriele De Luca and Dr. Michael Lenardo