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Chang Xiao Wins Second Prize at the Digestive Health Center Retreat
03/03/2009
Chang Xiao, MD, a student in the PhD program in systems biology and physiology won second prize in the poster competition at today's annual scientific retreat of the Cincinnati Digestive Health Center.
Now in her second year of study, Chang is working in the laboratory of Yana Zavros, PhD and preparing for her qualifying exams. Her research is focused on the physiological role of sonic hedgehog in the adult stomach and its contribution to gastric carcinogenesis. Chang's presentation entitled "Parietal cell-expressed sonic hedgehog maintains a functional and differentiated gastric epithlium" also featured co-authors Melissa Orr and Yana Zavros, PhD.
The Cincinnati Digestive Health Center is one of only 16 Silvio O Conte Digestive Diseases Research Core Centers (DDRCC) in the nation, supported by the National Institutes of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases. The DHC, located within Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, serves as a University of Cincinnati Academic Health Center resource that has attracted new investigators to foster digestive disease research and make significant discoveries relating to pediatric digestive diseases. DHC focus areas include chronic liver disease, digestive organ failure and transplantation, inflammatory and diarrheal diseases, and obesity.
Chang Xiao, MD (center) displays her certificate after winning 2nd prize in the poster competition at the Digestive Health Center scientific retreat at Cincinnati Children's Hospital, March 3, 2009. Also pictured, Ariel Muntiz, PhD (left) won 3rd prize, and Taeko Noah, PhD (right) won 1st prize.
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