Professional Students

First-year Medical Students

First Place - Sarah C. Jernigan, ESTROGEN RESPONSE ELEMENT SEQUENCE IMPACTS ESTROGEN RECEPTOR INTERACTION WITH COREGULATORS IN TRANSFECTED CELLS. S.C. Jernigan & C.M. Klinge  Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Second Place - Brant Wommack, ACETYLCHOLINE-INDUCED ARTERIOLAR DILATION IS IMPAIRED IN THE TERMINAL ILEUM FOLLOWING TWO-HIT HEMORRHAGE AND SEPSIS.  B Wommack BS, H. Zhao PhD, PJ Matheson PhD, MA Wilson MD PhD, DA Spain MD PS Harris PhD, RN Garrison MD. Depts. Of Surgery & Physiology, Univ. of Louisville and Louisville VAMC.

Honorable Mention - Thomas Schmelzer, TIME COURSE OF BLOOD BRAIN BARRIER LEAKAGE AFTER GLOBAL ISCHEMIA IN LONG EVANS RAT. T. Schmelzer and K.H. Reid. Department of Anatomical Sciences and Neurobiology.

Second-year Medical Students

First Place – James Baker, CHEMOTHERAPEUTIC AGENTS THAT SENSITIZE COLON CANCER CELLS TO E2F-1-MEDIATED APOPTOSIS.  J Baker, MJ Elliott, YB Dong, HL Yang, and KM McMasters, Division of Surgical Oncology, University of Louisville, J. Graham Brown Cancer Center.

Second Place - Stephen Williams, GENE THERAPY UTILIZING SUPERACTIVE FORMS OF PRB AND P21 WAF1/CIP1 INHIBIT TUMOR CELL GROWTH, INDUCE CELL DEATH, AND INCREASE CHEMOSENSITIVITY IN COLON CANCER.  S Williams, MJ Elliott, YB Dong, HL Yang, and KM McMasters, Division of Surgical Oncology, University of Louisville, J. Graham Brown Cancer Center.

Dental Students

First Place – Kelli E. Alexander and John T. Philipose, STIMULATION OF PROTEIN SYNTHESIS DUE TO PHOSPHORYLATION OF ELF2B:  A KINASE THAT PHOSPHORYLATES THE (-SUBUNIT OF RABBIT ELF2B SPECIFICALLY PHOSPHORYLATES THE (-SUBUNIT OF MOUSE ELF2B.  Kelli E. Alexander, John T. Philipose, Keith A. Ryan, and Jaydev N. Dholakia. Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, School of Dentistry and Medicine.

Second Place (tie) - Paul J. Kelly, SMALL SURFACE CCD-BASED IMAGING OF THE TMJ.  Paul J. Kelly, William C. Scarfe and Allan G. Farman, Dept. of Hospital/Surgical Dentistry.

Second Place (tie) - Matthew Bergman, COMPARATIVE PRE-IMPLANT ASSESSMENT WITH PANORAMIC OR TOMOGRAPHIC IMAGES USING SOFTWARE ANALYSIS. Matthew D. Bergman and William C. Scarfe. Dept. of Hospital/Surgical Dentistry, Univ. Louisville.

Third Place – Ed Warr, RADIOGRAPHIC FINDINGS IN INSTITUTIONALIZED SEVERELY AND PROFOUNDLY COGNITIVELY IMPAIRED ADULTS.  E. Warr, H. Hood, A.G. Farman (ULSD and Hazelwood Clinic, Louisville, Kentucky).