We are pleased to present this conference program containing select abstracts from the 2025 Mountain West Research Symposium, which took place on May 9th, 2025. This symposium showcased student and faculty research at NoordaCOM and surrounding institutions and has been growing rapidly over the past several years. Out of several hundred abstracts in total, these thirty-two have been selected as outstanding contributions by a team of symposium judges as well as editors at Intermountain Journal of Translational Medicine.