Cover art submissions

This year’s call for SCRIP cover art yielded several creative and noteworthy submissions from our talented students which are showcased below. The image chosen for the SCRIP cover was submitted by Elana Stains, MD Class of 2025, and features the snake plant, which is valued for its ability to remove toxic air pollutants such as benzene, formaldehyde, xylene, and toluene.

Sandybell Anorga, MBS Class Cohort 3

Right: The picture is a digital work created with a drawing tablet in watercolor form on the female human skeleton. Learning anatomy has been one of my favorite subjects to learn, especially the skeleton system and drawing concepts at home.

My Nguyen, MD Class of 2025

Below left: This is the two-photon image of the presynaptic input from the basal forebrain to PV interneurons in the frontal cortex. Two-photon imaging is a cutting-edge research technique to investigate neuronal activities for various purposes, such as impaired decision-making and compulsive behaviors in substance use disorder. This represents the combined beauty of both science and art, as neurons appear like flickering stars in the universe of neural circuits.

Kinza Abbas, MD Class of 2025

Below middle: 10x objective tile images of brain slices of wildtype and homozygous mutant mice. Stained for nuclei with Hoechst dye (blue) and OPA1 using an OPA1 primary antibody (NovusBio) and Alexa Fluorescence 555 secondary antibody (Invitrogen).

Tice R. Harkins, MD Class of 2024

Below right: This image of a bovine blood clot was taken using a super resolution structured illumination microscope (SIM). Platelets were fluorescently tagged green and fibrin was tagged red.