Cohort 4 (2024-2027)

StARR Scholar Leon Sanders
Name: Leon Sanders III, MD, MS
Training Level: PGY-4 Internal Medicine
Medical School: Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center - New Orleans 
Project Title: The Role of Covid-19/ACE2 in Hematopoietic Stem Cell Function
Mentor: Jay Kolls, MD, Chancellor Donald, MD, Elizabeth Norton, PhD, and Kevin Zwezdaryk, PhD
StARR Scholar Anna Sanford
Name: Anna Sanford, MD, MPH
Training Level: PGY-4 Pediatrics 
Medical School: Tulane University
Project Title: Metabolic and Immune Basis of Post-infectious Sequelae After Ebola Virus Disease
Mentor: John Schieffelin, MD, Nell Bond, PhD, and Kevin Zwezdaryk, PhD

Cohort 5 (2025-2028)

StARR Scholar Daniel Irelan
Name: Daniel Irelan, MD
Training Level: PGY-3 Internal Medicine
Medical School: University of South Alabama College of Medicine
Project Title: Comparative Analysis of Neutrophil-mediated Mucosal Immunity in the Oral and Nasal Cavities During Respiratory Viral Infection in Adults and Children
Mentors:Sarah Glover, MD and Victor Thannickal, MD
 
StARR Scholar Elizabeth Chang
Name: Elizabeth Chang, MD, PhD
Training Level: PGY-3 Pediatrics
Medical School: Trinity School of Medicine
Project Title: Neogene Biomarkers for Pediatric Leukemia
Mentors: Sean Lee, PhD and Justin Farge, MD
 

Cohort 6 (2026-2029)

C6 StARR Scholar Charles Peper
Name: Charles Peper, MD
Training Level: PGY-2 Internal Medicine
Medical School: Tulane University
Project Title: IGF-1 and AP-1 in Atherosclerosis
Mentors: Patrice Delafontaine, MD and Amitabh Pandey, MD