Corinna Zygourakis MD

 

Expected Graduation Date: 2017

 

 

 

 

Education, Training, and Previous Positions

2006: BS, California Institute of Technology
2011: MD, Health Sciences and Technology Program, Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Selected Honors and Awards

2011: Cum laude, Harvard Medical School
2011: Seidman Prize for Outstanding Senior Medical Student Thesis, Harvard Medical School
2008-2009: Howard Hughes Medical Institute Research Training Fellowship for Medical Students
2006-2008: Paul and Daisy Soros National Fellowship for New Americans
2006: Mabel Beckman Award, Caltech Commencement Prize to Top Graduating Woman
2005: Jack E. Froehlich Award, Caltech Academic Prize to Top Junior
2002-2006: Axline and Lingle Awards, Caltech Full-Tuition Merit Scholarships
2002: Neuroscience Research Prize, American Academy of Neurology and Child Neurology Society
2002: Presidential Scholar
2002: USA Today All-USA High School Academic First Team

Selected Recent Publications

Zygourakis CC, Cahill KS, Proctor MR. Delayed development of os odontoideum after traumatic cervical injury: support for a vascular etiology. J Neurosurg Pediatr 2011;7(2):201-4.

Masters KS, Lipke EA, Rice EE, Liel MS, Myler HA, Zygourakis C, Tulis DA, West JL. Nitric oxide-generating hydrogels inhibit neointima formation. J Biomater Sci Polym Ed 2005;16(5):659-72.

Zygourakis CC, Rosen GD. Quantitative trait loci modulate ventricular size in the mouse brain. J Comp Neurol 2003;461(3):362-9.