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Samuel Zorn
Samuel Zorn

Samuel Zorn

G5 Student

Faculty Advisor

  • Cheryl Stucky, PhD, Cell Biology, Neurobiology & Anatomy

Locations

  • Medical Scientist Training Program

Contact Information

Education

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

Research Interests

Sam's research interests focus on somatosensation and pain. He is passionate about dissecting the complex roles that neuronal and non-neuronal cell types undertake to integrate physical and chemical stimuli into conscious sensory perception. He hopes to better understand the evolutionary trade-offs that incentivize sensory neurons to express of immune surveillance receptors and their role in painful diseases.

Research Experience

Medical College of Wisconsin, 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.

Zorn S, Rayan D, Brown SA, Bergom C. Radiation-induced cardiotoxicity: from bench to bedside and beyond. Advances in Oncology. 2021 May 1;1:1-3. https://doi.org/10.1016/J.YAO.2021.02.001

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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