Rising (M)STARs

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2008 MSTAR scholar, Michael Flaherty, was featured in a Reuters Health article in May, 2009, for a study he took part in on Vitamin E and Alzheimer's disease. Michael presented this research during AFAR's MSTAR poster session at the AGS meeting in May. The article was picked up by online news sites, including ABC News, and it was also covered by The Doctor's Channel.

Faraz Ahmad, a 2006 MSTAR scholar, recently graduated from the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine, but not before winning a prestigious Catherine Dobson Prize for best oral presentation given by a non-PhD student in the area of clinical investigation of research done in medical school. You can read more about Faraz's presentation here.

Congratulations to Yang Shen, a 2007 MSTAR at the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine, for her manuscript being accepted into the Journal of Vascular Surgery.

2007 MSTAR scholar Mallika Mendu received Yale Medical School's Harold H. Lamport Biomedical Research Prize, for an outstanding thesis reporting original biomedical research, based on her MSTAR work, and her MSTAR research was published in Archives of Internal Medicine.

Edris Aman's 2008 MSTAR research on exercise and dementia was featured in a Reuter's Health article in April, 2009, which was picked up by media around the world, including FoxNews.com and Yahoo! News. This research was published in Journal of the American Medical Directors Association and also won the Medical Student Research Poster Competition at the National American College of Physician's (ACP) Conference.

Rahul Desikan's 2008 MSTAR-funded development of a software program to detect various forms of early Alzheimer's disease in patients' MRIs was featured in India's largest newspaper, The Times of India in April, 2009. This research was also published in Brain.

Healthday ran an article in December, 2008, featuring the MSTAR research of Emily Adams, a 2007 scholar at Boston University. Emily worked on the New England Centenarian Study with two Beeson alumni, where she found that children of centenarians have a lower risk of heart attacks, stroke and developing diabetes than normal adults. The Healthday article was picked up by dozens of media, including US News & World Report's website. Emily published this research in Journal of the American Geriatrics Society.