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VCU's Medical Journal Club: The Work of Future Health Professionals

VCU's Medical Journal Club seeks to keep its members educated on the daily changes and advancements in the medical community through discussions of peer-reviewed articles, as well as establish connections between pre-health students. The club's members also seek to inform the rest of the community through honest reporting methods of peer-reviewed articles.

Article Presentations Article Presentations

The COVID-19 Vaccine Development Landscape, Areebah Ahmed

Anti-GD2 antibody dinutuximab inhibits triple-negative breast tumor growth by targeting GD2+ breast cancer stem-like cells, Nasser Al-Abdulaly

Effect of Psilocybin on Empathy and Moral Decision-Making, Sky Evans

Effects of Dextromethorphan On MDMA-Induced Serotonergic Aberration In The Brains of Non-Human Primates Using [123I]-ADAM/SPECT, Sky Evans

Disentangling Social-Genetic From Rearing-Environment Effects for Alcohol Use Disorder Using Swedish National Data, Aiman Hanif and Han Tran

Maternal-fetal immune responses in pregnant women infected with SARS-CoV-2, Arya Hanjagi, Arya Revankar, Meghana Sunkara, and Tvisha Vanteru

CD4+ T helper 2 cells suppress breast cancer by inducing terminal differentiation, Arjun Jagdeesh

A genome-wide in vivo CRISPR screen identifies essential regulators of T cell migration to the CNS in a multiple sclerosis model, Jefin Jose

Association of CAG Repeats With Long-term Progression in Huntington Disease, Jefin Jose

Characterization and Discovery of a Selective Small Molecule Modulator of Mitochondrial Complex I Targeting a Unique Binding Site, Jefin Jose

Diacylglycerol Lipase-β Knockout Mice Display a Sex-Dependent Attenuation of Traumatic Brain Injury-Induced Mortality with No Impact on Memory or Other Functional Consequences, Jefin Jose

FOXOs modulate proteasome activity in human-induced pluripotent stem cells of Huntington’s disease and their derived neural cells, Jefin Jose

Glia-neuron Interactions in the Mammalian Retina, Jefin Jose

Immune Checkpoint Molecules in Natural Killer Cells as Potential Targets for Cancer Immunotherapy, Jefin Jose

Neuropathology of Parkinson Disease, Jefin Jose

N-Methyl-D-Aspartate Receptor Antibodies in Herpes Simplex Encephalitis, Jefin Jose

The Promises of Neurodegenerative Disease Modeling, Jefin Jose

Infiltrating CD8+ T cells exacerbate Alzheimer’s disease pathology in a 3D human neuroimmune axis model, Jefin Jose and Devam Purohit

Outcomes of Catheter Ablation of Ventricular Tachycardia Based on Etiology in Nonischemic Heart Disease: An International Ventricular Tachycardia Ablation Center Collaborative Study, Akhila R. Kunuthuru

Double-Blind, Randomized, Placebo-Controlled Phase III Clinical Trial to Evaluate the Efficacy and Safety of treating Healthcare Professionals with the Adsorbed COVID-19 (Inactivated) Vaccine Manufactured by Sinovac: A structured summary of a study protocol for a randomised controlled trial, Valerie Lau

Impacts of a National Lockdown on Smallholder Farmers’ Income and Food Security: Empirical Evidence from Two States in India, Samiya Majid

Local Administration of ReveromycinA Ointment Suppressed Alveolar Bone Loss in Mice, Samiya Majid

nSynergistic Antiviral Effect of Hydroxychloroquine and Azithromycin in Combination Against SARS-CoV-2, Samiya Majid

Neural Coding of Vibration Intensity, Brendon Murphy

Mesenchymal Stem Cell Therapy for Knee Osteoarthritis: 5 years Follow- Up of Three Patients, Shahad Musa