Frawley Fellowship Recipients, Brody Award Winners Named

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Frawley Fellows, Honorable Mention Recipients

The Frawley fellows, as well as the honorable mention recipients, train in the Division of Internal Medicine.

They are:

Ravi Chhatrala, MBBS
Clinical fellow

Research topic: “Evaluation of cotinine levels in prospectively banked specimens of pancreatic cancer patients receiving erltonib.”

Jennifer Lang, MD
Basic science fellow

Research topic: “Defining novel pathways regulating nascent human endothelium.”

Rabi Yacoub, MD
Clinical honorable mention

Research topic: “Metformin Use in Patients with Chronic Kidney Disease: A Retrospective Analysis of Lactic acidosis Prevalence and Survival.”

Emily Battaglia, MD
Basic science honorable mention

Research topic: Myocardial Regeneration.”

The Thomas F. Frawley, MD, Residency Research Fellowships support medical/surgical residents for whom medical research represents a primary personal interest and passion.

Frawley, a 1944 graduate of the medical school, was a nationally recognized endocrinology researcher, President of the American College of Physicians and chair of medicine at Saint Louis University School of Medicine.

Brody Award Recipient

Brian Gerard, a master’s degree candidate, received the Brody Award for his study, titled “Silencing of Tumor Necrosis Factor (TNF) in the Hippocampus Alleviates Chronic Pain.”

The Brody Award recognizes a junior research scientist who has conducted what faculty judges consider the best basic science research directed toward solving a specific clinical problem.

Distinguished Teaching Professor Harold Brody, MD ’61, PhD, was a longtime chair of anatomical sciences.

The Office of Graduate Medical Education announced the winners of the Brody Award and the Frawley Fellowships at Spring Clinical Day.