SURIP 2008
Number of Applicants: 315
Number of Interns Accepted: 14
Our fourteen 2008 interns included 6 women and 8 men, from 14 different institutions, with a mean GPA of 3.7. The students were matched with mentors representing 10 different departments within the College of Medicine.
| Name | Undergraduate Institution | Major | Mentor |
| Nicholas Boaz | Lebanon Valley College | Biochemistry and Molecular Biology | Christopher Siedlecki, Ph.D. |
| Matthew Stake | Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania | Biology/Biochemistry | John Wills, Ph.D. |
| Christina Adams | University of the Sciences in Philadelphia | Pharmacology/Toxicolgy | Jong Yun, Ph.D. |
| Stefany Acosta-Torres | Wellesley College | Neuroscience | Sue Grigson, Ph.D. |
| Kermile Alexis | College of Saint Elizabeth | Biology | Thomas Pritchard, Ph.D. |
| Allison Batties | Lycoming College | Biology | Lisa Shantz, Ph.D. |
| Osemeke Edobor | Lincoln University | Biology and Chemistry | Rosalyn Irby, Ph.D. |
| Bethany Jenkins | Gordon College | Biology (biotechnology)/chemistry, mathematics | John Richie, M.D. |
| Lionel Fonkoua | St. Thomas University | Biology | Jill Smith, M.D. |
| Tushar, Karkhanis | University of Pittsburgh | Bioengineering/Chemistry | Akif Undar, Ph.D. |
| Stacey Lehman | Elizabethtown | Biotechnology/Physics | Mark Kester, Ph.D. |
| Mark Lohsen | Gettysburg College | Biochemistry and Molecular Biology | Leslie Parent, M.D. |
| Phillip Salvatore | Colgate University | Molecular Biology | Ira Ropson, Ph.D. |
| Randon Young | Savannah State University | Biology | Rob Bonneau, Ph.D. |
Projects
| Name | Undergraduate Institution | Mentor | Project | |
| Sadikshya Adhikary | Wesleyan College | Christopher Siedlecki, Ph.D. | Effects of Altered NaCl Concentration and pH on Blood Factor XII Activation | |
| Vivek Ananthan | Swarthmore College | Patricia Sue Grigson, Ph.D. | Effects of Retinal Pigmented Epithelial Cell Implantation on Rat Cocaine Self-Administration | |
| Jennifer Baker | Washington and Jefferson College | Steve Abcouwer, Ph.D. | Mouse Microglia Expressing SV40 tsA58 Large T Antigen Exhibits Less Growth and Greater Ramification at a Non-Premissive Temperature | |
| Alyssa Cates | University of Northern Iowa | Lisa Shantz, Ph.D. | Ornithine Decarboxylase (ODC) Regulation by mTOR: New Insights from TSC1 Knockout Cells | |
| Patricia Cunfer | Lebanon Valley College | Rosalyn Irby, Ph.D. | Osteopontin Alters the Expression of HPSE1 and C10ORF Proteins in HCT116 Colon Cancer Cells | |
| Maria Gubbiotti | University of Scranton | Vincent Chau, Ph.D. | Exploring A "Surrogate Reaction" To Monitor the Activity of the E3 Ubiquitin Protein Ligase gp78 | |
| Monica Kriete | Kenyon College | Sergei Grigoryev, Ph.D. | Influence of LInker Histone High-Affinity Binding Sites on Higher-Order Chromatin Structure | |
| Ariel Morales | St. Thomas University | Jianhua Li, Ph.D. | Cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2) Pathway Expression within White Skeletal Muscle in Correlation to an Exaggerated Exercise Pressor Reflex in Congestive Heart Failure | |
| Charlene Ofosu | Central Michigan University | John Richie, Ph.D. | DNA Conformational Studies of GAG-Trinucleotide Repeat Polymorphism in the 5'UTR of the GCLC Gene | |
| Jordann Smak | Gettysburg College | Ira Ropson, Ph.D. | Effects of Sequence Deletions on the Folding of Intestinal Fatty Acid Binding Protein | |