Medical Student
University of Cincinnati
Trevor M. Stantliff, B.S., Medical Student at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine. Trevor is a fourth year medical student in Cincinnati, OH. He attended Bellarmine University in Louisville, KY where he conducted research on Chalcone-derivative medicinal chemistry and biomolecular assessment of those derivatives on A549 Cancer cell lines. Furthermore, He participated in two undergraduate research fellowships - one at the James Graham Brown Cancer Center researching the use of salivary cortisol as a biomarker of stress on immune system in Breast Cancer patient, and the second with the Kentucky Biomedical research infrastructure network studying the impact of the SERF gene on Spinal Muscular Atrophy. While in medical school, Trevor conducted clinical research in the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in the latent tuberculosis treatment cascade. Trevor completed a competative year-long, research fellowship at the National Institutes of Health, conducting research in the laboratory of Daniel Chertow, MD, MPH. This lab had joint affiliation with NIAID, the emerging pathogen section of the critical care medicine department, and NHLBI. Trevor conducted research in multiple areas including immune host response to SARS-CoV-2 and clinical trials using nonhuman primate model of sepsis. After his research year, Trevor returned to medical school where he is continuing to explore research in both the fields of infectious disease and allergy/immunology.