Professional Students

First-year Medical Students

FIRST PLACE - Vedra Abdomerovic (Mentor:  Dr. Paula J. Bates Dept. of Medicine, James Graham Brown Cancer Center), Inhibition of cancer cell growth by guanine quartet forming oligonulceotides.

SECOND PLACE - Stephen R. Reeves (Mentor: Dr. David Gozal, Dept. of Pediatrics), Effects of post-natal intermittent hypoxia on respiratory development.

HONORABLE MENTION - Chad M. Patton (Mentor: Dr. Fred J. Roisen, Dept. of Anatomical Sciences and Neurobiology), Human olfactory derived stem cells: the effect of substrata on differentiation and proliferation.

Second-year Medical Students

FIRST PLACE - Sarah C. Jernigan (Mentor:  Dr. Carolyn Klinge, Dept. of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology), Estrogen Response Element Sequence and Cell Type Impact Estrogen Receptor Interaction With Coregulators In Transfected Cells.

SECOND PLACE (tie) - Todd Purkiss (Mentor:  Dr. Paul DeMarco, Dept. of Psychological and Brain Sciences, VA Medical Ctr.) The morphology of the electroretinogram waveform is altered by glaucoma.

SECOND PLACE (tie) - Jason F. Talbott (Mentor:  Dr. Scott Whittemore, Dept. of Neurological Surgery), Dorsal spinal contributions to rat hindlimb locomotion.

Dental Students

Jewish Hospital Innovation in Nursing Research

Winner - CARLA HERMANN, PHD, RN, (U of L School of Nursing)