SPORE-Supported Abstracts
2023
Brown H, Alagesan P, Wawrzynski J, Wang F, Epplein M, Garman KS. Health disparities in patients undergoing endoscopy related to gastric intestinal metaplasia with active H. pylori infection. Digestive Disease Week, San Diego, CA.
Alagesan P, Brown H, Wawrzynski J, Wang F, Hyslop T, Epplein M, Garman KS. Prevalence of H. pylori infection in patients undergoing upper endoscopy reveals persistent racial differences and opportunities for eradication. Digestive Disease Week, San Diego, CA.
Alagesan P, Scotland P, Brown H, McCall SJ, Epplein M, Garman KS. Biobanking of gastric organoid models from a racially diverse cohort for gastric cancer interception. The Annual Meeting of the American Association of Cancer Research, Orlando, FL.
Trainee Priya Alagesan was awarded a Women in Cancer Research Scholar Award (AACR-WICR Scholar Award) to present this paper at the annual AACR meeting in April 2023.
2022
Alagesan P, Scotland P, Butt J, Waterboer T, Crankshaw C, Brown H, Epplein M, Garman KS. Development of gastric organoid models to mitigate gastric cancer risk: Examining the utility of CXCL8 expression for gastric cancer interception. AGA James W. Freston Single Topic Conference: Gastrointestinal Organoids and Engineered Organ Systems, Washington, DC.
Garman KS, Epplein M. Identifying opportunities for gastric cancer interception: The GRACE Study. AACR Conference: Precision Prevention, Early Detection, and Interception of Cancer, Austin, TX. [Conference cancelled]
Garman KS, Brown H, Alagesan P, McCall SJ, Patierno S, Wnag Q, Wang F, Hyslop T, Epplein M. Invited oral presentation for the Gastric Cancer and Cardinogenesis Session. Talk title: Helicobacter pylori testing among individuals at risk of gastric cancer: a potential interception point to reduce the gastric cancer burden in the US. The Annual Meeting of the European Helicobacter and Microbiota Study Group, Glasgow, Scotland.
Epplein M, Brown H, Alagesan P, McCall SJ, Patierno S, Wang F, Hyslop T, Salama NR, Garman KS. Management of gastrointestinal metaplasia with Helicobacter pylori in a retrospective cohort of patients in the southeastern US. The Annual Meeting of the European Helicobacter and Microbiota Study Group, Glasgow, Scotland.