The Department of Surgery is committed to providing excellent research opportunities for their residents. To ensure that residents' interests and career plans are provided for, the department established the Surgical Research Committee. The committee considers all of the research proposals from the faculty as well as the residents' interests and career goals and matches the two.

• Modulating AKT activity alters cellular effects of chemotherapy in pancreatic cancer
• Arginine deprivation as a novel therapy for pancreatic and prostate cancer
• Correlation of radiographic and pathologic findings in invasive lobular breast cancer
• Transcriptional regulation of the proapoptotic protein Bak in pancreatic cancer
• Molecular characteristics of Dcun1D2 in Tumorgenesis
• Protective role of P-Glycoprotein during necrotizing enterocolitis
• Role of MMP-2 in transendothelial migration of breast cancer cells
• Molecular markers of the intestinal damage in a rabbit model of gastroschisis
• Intestinal damage in a sheep model of gastroschisis and the effect of in utero repair
• Magnet driven intestinal anastomoses in a pig model
• Nanofiber mesh in scaffolding to influence wound healing in rats
• Orthotic bracing in pectus carinatum
• Use of magnetic bracing for pectus excavatum