Annual Research Day

Important Dates

  • Wednesday, February 8, 2023
    Abstracts Due
  • Monday, March 20, 2023 by 5 p.m.
    Posters Due
  • Thursday, March 30, 2023
    Judging Night
    Primary authors are required to attend.
  • Friday, March 31, 2023
    Research Day
    Primary authors are required to attend.
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Friday, March 31, 2023
Research Day 2023
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Research Day is intended as a forum to highlight research conducted at the UIC Health Sciences Campus-Rockford, as well as affiliated and regional institutions. This year’s event will feature prominent keynote speakers, a panel discussion with cancer researchers, and dozens of research posters from students, residents, staff and faculty.

Research Day theme: Twists and Turns of Cancer Research

9 a.m.  Registration

9:15 a.m.  Welcome-Robert J Vickrey, MD, Auditorium

9:30 a.m.  Keynote speakers:

NCI Program Highlights on Cancer Research and Training

Dr. Aniruddha GangulyDr. Aniruddha Ganguly
Program Director
Office of the Associate Director
Cancer Diagnosis Program, DCTD
National Cancer Institute
Bethesda, MD

Harnessing Tumor Vasculature for Therapeutic Development: Taking it up a Notch

Dr. Jan KitajewskiDr. Jan K. Kitajewsk
Director of the University of Illinois Cancer Center
Sweeney Professor of Basic Sciences and Head of the Department of Physiology and Biophysics
University of Illinois College of Medicine Chicago

11 a.m. Cancer Research Panel Discussion

Panelists

Richard Nora (Moderator), MD
Aniruddha Ganguly, PhD
Jan K. Kitajewski, PhD
John Nitiss, PhD
Neelu Puri, PhD
Gnanasekar Munirathinam, PhD

12:15 p.m.  Lunch

1:00 p.m.  Poster Viewing

2:00 p.m.  Student Presentations

3:30 p.m.  Presentation of Awards

4:30 p.m.  Closing Remarks


Resources to Prepare for Research Day

POSTERS

Poster Guidelines | Poster Templates | Basic Science Example | Case Report Example | Clinical Example | Community Example

LOGOS

UIC Logos


Previous Research Day Winners and Awards

Previous Research Days

2021  |  2020  |  2019  |  2018  |  2017  |  2016

AWARD CATEGORIES

Best Basic Science Research Poster Award | Sponsored by: Department of Biomedical Sciences

Best Basic Science Research Poster Award | Sponsored by: Thermo Fisher Scientific

Best Case Report Award | Sponsored by: Rockford Anesthesiologists Associated

Best Clinical Research Poster Award | Sponsored by: Rockford Ambulatory Surgery Center

Best MBT Student Research Poster Award | Sponsored by: Master of Science in Medical Biotechnology (MBT) Program and Department of Biomedical Sciences

Best Student Technical Poster Awards (Two Awards) | Sponsored by: Winnebago County Medical Society

Best Use of Literature in a Student Research Project Award | Sponsored by: Crawford Library of the Health Sciences-Rockford

CCTS Best Clinical-Translational Research Poster Award | Sponsored by: UIC Center for Clinical and Translational Science

CCTS Best Community-Translational Research Poster Award | Sponsored by: UIC Center for Clinical and Translational Science

College of Pharmacy Outstanding Poster Award | Sponsored by: UIC College of Pharmacy at Rockford

Dean’s Action Council Award | Sponsored by: Office of the Regional Dean, UICOMR

Innovation in Basic Science Research Award | Sponsored by: Office of the Regional Dean, UICOMR

James Scholar Award | Sponsored by: James Scholar Program

NCRHP Poster Award for Encouraging Excellence in Rural Health | Sponsored by: National Center for Rural Health Professions

Sister Mary Linus Nowak Research Award | Sponsored by: Saint Anthony College of Nursing

Supporting Model Public Health Practices Research Award | Sponsored by: Winnebago County Health Department and its Board of Health