The Hopkins Office for Undergraduate Research (HOUR) recently announced the recipients of the President Undergraduate Research Award (PURA).

We are proud to share the extraordinary undergraduate students majoring in Neuroscience that are part of the Summer 2025 PURA Cohort. We look forward to seeing the outcomes of their projects and hope you join us in celebrating their accomplishments!

• Madison Angelo, 2027 – “Investigating Variances in Interoception in Adolescent Psychopathology” 

• Jaesung Bae, 2027  – “The Role of NOGAR1 (NMDAR- Oxygen & Glucose-Associated Regulator 1) Phosphorylation in Enhancing Neuroprotective Microglial Responses in Ischemic Stroke” 
• Ryan Bohluli, 2027 – “Closed-Loop Feedback Control of Blood Pressure Using Focused Ultrasound in Autonomic Dysreflexia”
• Christopher Lee, 2026 – “Effects of Development on Circadian-Dependent Regulations of Parvalbumin-Positive Interneurons in Mouse Primary Visual Cortex”
• Alisa Leong, 2026 – “Novel Self-Control Behavioral Task on Human Subjects”
• Brian Liu, 2027 – “Otolith Function on Gait”
• Anush Raghav Polamraju, 2027 – “A two-pronged attack against malignant rhabdoid tumors using a combination of corin and decitabine to re-activate differentiation and tumor suppressor programs”
• Bomin Seo, 2026 – “Compensatory Plasticity in the Higher Order Visual Thalamus of Deaf Adult Mice”
• Patrick Wu, 2027 – “An information-theoretic approach to visual search: A new paradigm for characterizing declines in uncertainty”
• Justin Chiuwei, 2027 – “Aortic Tortuosity as a genotype-associated marker of mortality in Loeys-Dietz Syndrome​”
• Arushi Devgun, 2026 – “Representations of Social and Physical Force in the Brain “
• Rohan Venkatdas, 2027 – “Multifactorial Determinants of Surgical Outcomes and Survival in Central Nervous System Tumors: A Population-Based Analysis Using SEER”
• Marika Abe, 2027 – “Molecular profiling of retinal regeneration in the Iberian ribbed newt”
• Leah Keefe, 2026 – “Examining the Effects of Weight Loss Pharmacotherapies on Taste Reward”
• Belgin Kozanoğlu, 2027 – “Investigating the Midbrain PLTi as a Priority Map for Selective Spatial Attention”
• Josué Mendoza, 2026 – “Environment Dependent Modifications to Care-seeking Behavior in Mouse Pups”
• Ted Chor, 2026 – “Establishing the axolotl as a model for whole eye transplantation” 

• Tola Fadeyi, 2026  – “Navigating Adolescent Mental Health Care” 
• Shelley Li, 2027 – “Investigating TDP-43 regulation of ADARB2 in ALS/FTD”
• Shreesha Halder, 2028 – “Investigating the Role of Sensory Neurons in Sleep Induction using a CFA-Induced Inflammatory Pain Mouse Model”

These and other students can be found on the HOUR website with information about their research.