Graduate Students
First Place - Ayman El-Baz, Detection, Visualization, and Identification of Lung Abnormalities in Chest Spiral CT Scans (Mentor: A.A. Farag, Speed School, CVIP Lab)
Second Place - Tanvi Modi, Mechanism of TNF? Tolerance Against TNF? Induced Hepatotoxicity: Requirement of NF?B Activation (Mentor S.S. Barve, Department of Medicine)
Third Place - Xiaoyan Li, Metallothionein Overexpression Improves Graft Function During the Early Phase of Pancreatic-Islet Transportation (Mentor: P.N. Epstein, Department of Pediatrics)
Honorable Mention - Sarah Pinette, Dopaminergic Regulation of Endogenous Neural Precursor Cells (Mentor: T. Hagg, Department of Neurological Surgery)

