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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

Expanded FORWARD Trial Demonstrates Continued Potential for Stem Cell-Derived Islet Cell Therapy to Eliminate Need for Insulin for People with T1D, Ananya Aengula

Measures of General Intelligence and Risk for Alcohol Use Disorder, Ananya Aengula

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

Small airway-on-a-chip enables analysis of human lung inflammation and drug responses in vitro, Christina A. Fernandez

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

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