2025 MSTAR Students and Mentors

Marlena Coveney, Measuring Social Isolation, Loneliness, and Intersectional Stigma among Older Adults with Opioid Use Disorder
Mentor: Dr. Ben Han

Gillian Folk, Structural & Functional Analysis of PRPH2- related Inherited Retinal Disease
Mentor: Dr. Shyamanga Borooah

Avni Lakhani, Impacts of flavored e-cigarettes on age-related immune dysfunction
Mentor: Dr. Laura Crotty-Alexander

Isabel (Izzy) Nakoud, Exploring Tobacco Use and Hypertension Among Older MENA Refugees in San Diego 
Mentor: Dr. Tala Al-Rousan

Shane DeGrace, Immunologic predictors of cognitive decline: Longitudinal analysis of blood-derived biomarkers from the Health and Retirement Study
Mentor: Dr. Jordan Kohn

Omar Alsbiei, Impact of Pain on Aging: A Study Using a Capsaicin-Induced Pain Model in Caenorhabditis elegans
Mentor: Dr. Hemal Patel