Samuel Zorn

皇家华人

Medical Scientist Training Program

G4 Student

Faculty Advisor

Cheryl Stucky, PhD, Cell Biology, Neurobiology & Anatomy

Locations

Medical Scientist Training Program

Contact Information

szorn@mcw.edu

Education

BS, Biochemistry (ACS), Santa Clara University, 2015

Research Interests

Neuronal injury mechanisms in chronic pain

Research Experience

皇家华人, 2021-present
Advisor: Cheryl Stucky, PhD
Project: Investigating the role of heme in acute and chronic sickle cell disease pain (F30HL170588)

University of Minnesota, 2017 - 2019
Advisor: Faquian Li, PhD
Project: Evaluating the suitability of paraffin-embedded and formalin-fixed (FFPE) clinical heart tissues for laser capture-based proteomics analysis. Using this platform to compare the nuclear proteomes of cardiomyocytes in Dilated and Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy.

University of Minnesota, 2015 - 2016
Advisor: Dan Garry, MD, PhD
Project: Propagation of traditional and 'naive state' hIPSCs harboring dystrophin mutations for cardiac differentiation and downstream use to study the cardiac manifestations of Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD).

Publications

Rodríguez García DM, Szabo A, Mikesell AR, Zorn SJ, Tsafack UK, Sriram A, Waltz TB, Enders JD, Mecca CM, Stucky CL, Sadler KE. High-speed imaging of evoked rodent mechanical behaviors yields variable results that are not predictive of inflammatory injury. Pain. 2024 Jul 1;165(7):1569-1582. doi: 10.1097/j.pain.0000000000003174. Epub 2024 Feb 2. PMID: 38314814; PMCID: PMC11189758.

Packiarajan M, Grenon M, Zorn S, Hopper AT, White AD, Chandrasena G, Pu X, Brodbeck RM, Robichaud AJ. Fused thiazolyl alkynes as potent mGlu5 receptor positive allosteric modulators. Bioorg Med Chem Lett. 2013 Jul 15;23(14):4037-43. doi: 10.1016/j.bmcl.2013.05.070. Epub 2013 May 30. PMID: 23770058.

General Interests

Cooking and eating food, getting lost in new places, and camping

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