2021 Kosaka Best of Meeting Abstract Award Finalists and Winners

IARS 2021 Annual Meeting

May 15-16, 2021, Virtual Meeting

These top abstracts were selected from more than 600 abstract author submissions to the IARS 2021 Annual Meeting for the distinction of Kosaka Best of Meeting Awards Finalists.

From these 30 abstract authors, 9 top finalists in Clinical Research, Basic Science Research and Scholars Abstracts were invited to present their research to a panel of judges to compete for top category honors at the Kosaka Best of Meeting Abstract Awards Session that took place on Sunday, May 16, 2021.

Clinical Research Award Winner

Whole-brain network connectivity changes with midazolam sedation during task performance and periodic pain: A functional MRI study in healthy young adults.
Keith M Vogt¹, Christopher T Smith², James W Ibinson¹, Julie Fiez^1
1University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, ²Northwestern University, Chicago, IL

Basic Science Research Award Winner

Leveraging TRPV1 genetic divergence between avian and mammalian species to develop a TRPV1^K710N knock-in mouse and a novel analgesic.
Shufang He¹, Vanessa Zambelli², Yang Bian³, Freeborn Rwere⁴, Eric R Gross^5
1The Second Hospital of Anhui Medical University; Stanford University, Hefei, China, ²Stanford University; Laboratory of Pain and Signaling, Butantan Institute, Palo Alto, United States of America, ³Stanford University, Palo alto, United States of America, ⁴Stanford University, Palo Alto, United States of America, ⁵Stanford University, Stanford, CA

Scholars Award Winner

Modulation Of Microvascular Blood Flow And Stroke Outcome Via GPR39 in Mice.
Yifan Xu¹, Wenri Zhang², Lev Fedorov¹, Anthony P Barnes¹, Ruikang Wang³, Nabil Alkayed^4
1Oregon Health and Sciences University, Portland, OR, ²Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR, ³University of Washington, Seattle, Seattle, WA, ⁴Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, United States of America

Top Finalists — Clinical Research

Applying Machine Learning to Identify Pediatric Patients at Risk of Critical Perioperative Adverse Events: using the APRICOT Dataset
Hannah Lonsdale¹, Geoffrey M Gray², Hannah Yates³, Luis Ahumada⁴, Mohamed Rehman⁵, Anna Varughese⁵, Jim Fackler⁶, Walid Habre⁷, Nicola Disma^8
1Johns Hopkins University, St Petersburg, FL, ²Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital, St Petersburg, FL, ³Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital, St Petersburg, FL, ⁴Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital, St Petersburg, United States of America, ⁵Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital, St. Petersburg, FL, ⁶Johns Hopkins, Baltimore , United States of America, ⁷University Hospitals of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland, ⁸Istituto Giannina Gaslini, Genova, Italy 

Reduction of preoperative anxiety using Virtual Reality vs midazolam: A randomized controlled trial
Anthony Koo¹, Sanjana Khanna^1
1Phoenix Childrens Hospital, Scottsdale, AZ

Top Finalists — Basic Science Research

Protective Effects of Hydrogen Gas against Spinal Cord Ischemia‚ Reperfusion Injury: A Microdialysis Study in the Spinal Ventral Horn
Aya Kimura¹, Koichi Suehiro¹, Takashi Mori^1
1Osaka City University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan

Reduction in Cerebral Blood Flow During Aeromedical Evacuation-Relevant Hypobaria Following Rat Traumatic Brain Injury
Gary Fiskum¹, Rao Gullapalli¹, Julie Proctor¹, Su Xu¹, Catriona H Miller^2
1University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, ²Air Force Research Labs, Baltimore, MD

Top Finalists — Scholars

Perioperative neurocognitive and neuroimaging trajectories in older APOE4 carriers vs non-carriers: A prospective cohort study
Rosa O Yang¹, Jeffrey N Browndyke², Mary Cooter², Miles Berger^2
1Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC, ²Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 

Anesthetic activation of GABA_A receptors in astrocytes triggers a persistent increase in cell-surface expression of α5GABA_A receptors in neurons via IL-1β in mice
Arsene Pinguelo¹, Kirusanthy Kaneshwaran¹, Allison Chown¹, Sina Kiani¹, Dian-Shi Wang¹, Beverley A Orser^2
1University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, ²University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine, Toronto, Ontario