Holman Day is Stanford Surgery's annual celebration of science! The 2025 event took place on Friday, May 9 at the Center for Academic Medicine.
Congratulations to our winners:
- Best Poster Basic: Yoko Kojima
- Best Poster Clinical: Sue Fu
- Best Podium Basic: Michelle Griffin
- Best Podium Clinical: Pooja Yesantharao
Explore the Virtual Poster Session
Browse through our virtual poster session by clicking through posters above OR exploring the titles below. Click to read the full abstract and watch the author present.
Bio: Katherine A. Gallagher, Professor of Surgery, Professor of Microbiology and Immunology, and the Vice Chair of Basic and Translational Science in the Department of Surgery at the University of Michigan, is internationally known for her innovative translational research on epigenetic regulation of immune cells during normal and pathologic tissue repair and other cardiovascular disease processes. She is an expert in the molecular pathogenesis of wound repair and has contributed substantially to the understanding of epigenetics in immune cells associated with tissue repair, cardiovascular diseases, sepsis and most recently, COVID-19.
She is an exceptionally well-funded researcher supported by multiple R01s, R35, and foundational grants. Dr. Gallagher is a member of the National Academy of Medicine, American Society of Clinical Investigation, American Surgical Association, Society of Clinical Surgery, a James IV International Scholar, a Distinguished Fellow of the Society of Vascular Surgery and a Taubman Scholar. Her work is distinguished for its high quality and impact and has established the connection between epigenetic reprogramming of immune cells in normal and pathologic tissue repair as well as other disease states. She is the Chair of the BTSS NIH-study section and is an original member of the NIH-NIDDK Wound Consortium.
Dr. Gallagher is a tremendous mentor to junior faculty and trainees in medical research and has trained many post-doctoral residents to be the next generation of scientists, who have all achieved NIH(F/K) and major society funding (AHA, ADA, ACS, AAS/SUS, SVS). In 2022 and 2024 she received Faculty Mentor awards for her translational science mentoring efforts at the University of Michigan.
Judges:
Dr. Katherine Gallagher, Guest
Dr. Mary Hawn, Chair
Dr. Lisa Knowlton, Assoc. VC of Research
Dr. Olivia Martinez, VC of Basic Resarch
Dr. Arden Morris, VC of Clinical Research
Moderators for podium sessions:
Basic/Translational: Drs. Bill Chiu & Derrick Wan
Clinical/HSR: Drs. Lizzy George & George Poultsides