Request for Funding

Medical Student Research Fellowship for Summer 2004

Mentor: Jeffrey Kenkel, M.D.
Department: Plastic Surgery
Room number: E7.206
Mail Code: 9132
Phone number: 83227
E-mail: jeffrey.kenkel@UTSouthwestern.edu
Project title:

Human subjects IRB approved project number (where applicable):

Animal subjects IRB approved project number (where applicable): 0976-03-03-1

Project Type (patient-based research, animal-based research, or basic research; this characterization is only to permit a general classification for grouping similar types of projects)

Animal-based research.

Brief Description of Project:

Evaluation of heat shock proteins following laser induced injury. A rodent model system will be treated with various lasers to determine if the heat shock protein 70i (thermal inducible) is up-regulated in the presence of these treatments. The student will assist in all aspects of animal care, sample collections and histological examinations. Our preliminary data have proven that this intracellular protein is expressed after a 1319 nm laser treatment.

From a clinical standpoint, the student may help with a recently approved human lidocaine study. This will only be undertaken when the animal laser study is completed.

Previous Research Activities or Publications with Medical Students:

Two students have been mentored in the last two years.

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