Postdoctoral Highlights

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Awards

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2026 RMP Symposium Abstract Winner

Alexis Paulina Jimenez-Uribe, DVM, MS, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of Internal Medicine
Rush Medical College
Mentor: Eunsil Hahm

Past Award: 2025 RMP Symposium Abstract Winner

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Itzel Pamela Zavala Guevara, MS, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of Internal Medicine
Division of Nephrology
Rush Medical College 

 

 

2026 RMP Symposium Poster Winners

1st Place Poster Winner

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Meagan Makarczyk, PhD (Anne-Marie Malfait, MD, PhD)
Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of Internal Medicine
Division of Rheumatology
Rush Medical College
“An innervated synovium-cartilage chip for modeling knee joint inflammation and associated pain”

2nd Place Poster Winner

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Tanishka Khurana, MS (Anna Spagnoli, MD)
Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of Orthopedic Surgery
Rush Medical College
“Loss of Prrx1 Promotes Chondrocyte Hypertrophy and Increases Osteoarthritis Severity via Dysregulated Cartilage Differentiation and Hemoglobin Expression”

Publications

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Nicholas Baumgartner
Postdoctoral Fellow
Rush Alzheimer's Disease Center
Mentor: Dr. Zoe Arvanitakis

Publications:

  • Baumgartner, N.W., Capuano, A.W., Barnes, L.L., Bennett, D.A. and Arvanitakis, Z. (2026). Sex Differences in the Association of Simultaneous Decline in Blood Pressure and Decline in Cognition during Aging. Annals of Neurology, 100: 572-583. https://doi.org/10.1002/ana.78280
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Alexis Paulina Jimenez-Uribe, DVM, MS, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of Internal Medicine
Rush Medical College
Mentor: Eunsil Hahm, PhD

Publications: 

  • Spear R, Jimenez-Uribe AP, Cao Y, et al. Dysregulated Bone Marrow Contributes to Glomerular Injury through Soluble Factors. J Am Soc Nephrol. 2026;37(2):257-271. doi:10.1681/ASN.0000000828 
  • Jimenez-Uribe AP, Mangos S, Hahm E. Type I IFN in Glomerular Disease: Scarring beyond the STING. Int J Mol Sci. 2024;25(5):2497. Published 2024 Feb 21. doi:10.3390/ijms25052497 
  • Ferrari MG, Jimenez-Uribe AP, Wang L, et al. Myeloid differentiation factor-2/LY96, a potential predictive biomarker of metastasis and poor outcomes in prostate cancer: clinical implications as a potential therapeutic target. Oncogene. 2024;43(7):484-494. doi:10.1038/s41388-023-02925-x 
  • Dattilo MA, Ferrari MG, Jimenez-Uribe AP, Morales T, Amber KT, Mansini AP. Targeting MD2 in prostate cancer bone metastasis: Mechanistic insights and therapeutic potential. Oncoscience. 2026;13:62-68. Published 2026 Mar 11. doi:10.18632/oncoscience.647 
  • "An inducible co-stimulator ligand (ICOSL)-based peptide therapy for proteinuric kidney diseases targeting αvβ3 integrin" publication recently accepted in Molecular Biomedicine 

Presentations: 

  • Abstract selected for oral presentation, Kidney week 2024 American Society of Nephrology, Kidney week 2024. “The ‘TNFα-suPAR’ axis links bone marrow alterations to renal dysfunction”, San Diego, California, USA. 
  • Abstract selected for oral presentation, Kidney week 2025 American Society of Nephrology, Kidney week 2025. “An ICOSL-based peptide treatment targeting αVβ3 integrin reduces proteinuria and alleviates CKD”, Huston, Texas, USA.
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Yulu Wang, MD
Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of Dermatology
Mentor: Kyle Amber, MD

Publications

  • Bao, L., Guerrero-Juarez, C.F., Li, J. et al. IgG autoantibodies in bullous pemphigoid induce a pathogenic MyD88-dependent pro-inflammatory response in keratinocytes. Nat Commun 16, 7254 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-62495-2
  • Lasalle C, Wang Y, Morales MT, Giubellino A, Amber KT, Mansini AP. Role of Androgen Receptor in Melanoma: Mechanisms of Tumor Progression, Immune Evasion, and Therapeutic Implications. Cancers (Basel). 2025 Aug 29;17(17):2828. doi: 10.3390/cancers17172828. PMID: 40940929; PMCID: PMC12427377.
  • Schlotfeldt, M., Voss, L., Mansini, A. P., Mehlberg, D., Johannisson, S., Radziewitz, M., Schneider, A.-K., Vahabi, S. M., Wang, Y., Gainer, H., Li, J., Osterloh, C., Ernst, N., Visser, R., Vidarsson, G., Petersen, F., Yu, X., Ludwig, R. J., Vorobyev, A., Amber, K. T., Lux, A., & Bieber, K. (2025). CDK7, CDK9, or CDK11 inhibition reduces neutrophil-driven inflammation and tissue damage in experimental autoimmune models. bioRxiv. https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.11.19.689221
  • ASDP 62nd Annual Meeting, November 2025. Activation of Keratinocyte Autophagy in Bullous Pemphigoid. Poster presentation.