Carolinas Via Research Recogntion Day Program

Via Research Recognition Day VCOM-Carolinas • February 20, 2026

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Welcome to the twelfth annual Edward Via College of Osteopathic Medicine Via Research Recognition Day on the VCOM-Carolinas Campus. Each year, the Via Research Recognition day is a significant event for VCOM that supports the mission of the College to provide medical education and research that prepares globally minded, community-focused physicians and improves the health of those most in need. The Via Research Recognition Day offers a forum for health professionals and scientists in academic institutions, teaching hospitals and practice sites to present and benefit from new research innovations and programs intended to improve the health of all humans. By attending the sessions with the speakers, participants have the opportunity to learn cutting edge information in the physiological bases of osteopathic manipulative therapy efficacy, new trends in physician-based research networks, and how to develop innovative research projects with high impact for human health. Poster sessions allow participants to learn about the biomedical, clinical and education-simulation research activities at VCOM-Carolinas and its partner institutions.

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Yusuf A. Hannun, M.D. is the Joel Strum Kenny Professor in Cancer Research and SUNY Distinguished Professor at Stony Brook University. He is also the Director of The Kavita and Lalit Bahl Center for Metabolomics and Imaging and the Director Emeritus of the Stony Brook Cancer Center Dr. Hannun is an internationally known researcher in the area of bioactive sphingolipids, lipid metabolism, protein kinases, and signal transduction. His novel contributions to science have opened up a new field of investigation centered on the study of bioactive sphingolipids and their roles in cancer biology, inflammation, and cancer therapeutics. Dr. Hannun has published more than 650 scientific manuscripts, edited seven books and authored 7 patents. His H index is currently 159 with more than 97,000 citations to his work. Dr. Hannun has received numerous scientific and professional honors, including election as a fellow to the AAAS, election to the AAP and ASCI, the Malinckrodt Scholarship, and the Pew Scholarship in Biomedical Sciences. He received the South Carolina Governor’s Award for Excellence in Research in 2006, and he gave the Feodor Lynen Lecture of the German Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (GBM) in 2007. In 2010, he received the Avanti Award for excellence in Lipid Research from the ASBMB (American Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology) and in 2012 he received the Kuwait Prize. He was awarded an honorary doctorate from his Alma Mater, the American University of Beirut in May 2014. In 2015, he received The European Lipid Science Award, and in 2019 he was named a SUNY Distinguished Professor. He also received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Eicosanoid Research Foundation in 2019, and in 2022 he was elected a fellow of the ASBMB. He currently holds multiple grants from the National Institutes of Health. He is also the principal investigator on a 25-year program project grant from the National Cancer Institute.

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8:00 - 8:25 am

First Floor Reception Area Second Floor

Registration........................................................................................... Continental Breakfast............................................................................

8:30 - 10:30 am 8:30 - 9:30 am 9:30 - 10:30 am

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Poster Presentations............................................................................. Poster Presentation Session 1 Poster Presentation Session 2

10:45 - 11:30 am

Lecture Hall 2

Opening Remarks: David Eagerton, PhD & P. Gunnar Brolinson, DO...

11:30 - 12:30 pm

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Keynote Address: Yusuf Hannun, MD, SUNY Stony Brook...................

12:30 - 1:25 pm

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1:30 - 1:50 pm

Collaboration in Public Health Practice: Describing the Multidisciplinary Tiny Home Housing Model at Eden Village of Wilmington - J. Holt Evans, MPH, OMS-IV............................................ Osteopathic Manipulative Treatment for the Induction of Lacrimation Kelsey Vineyard, MS, OMS-III & Chloe Schock, DO............................. DNA secondary structures in a gene associated with ALS and FTD Bidyut Mohandty, PhD & Delphine Dean, PhD......................................

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1:50 - 2:10 pm

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2:10 - 2:30 pm

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2:30 -2:45 pm

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2:45 - 3:05 pm

Multidrug Resistance: The long-term exposure of pain medication in colorectal cancer - Christopher Farrell, PhD & David Eagerton, PhD... Fitness Landscape Design (FLD): Shaping Protein Evolution to Fight Disease - Vaibhav Mohanty, PhD...........................................................

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3:05 - 3:25 pm

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