Professional Students
Medical, Dental, Nursing
First-year Medical Students
First Place - Mary Beth Watts, Loss of Coup-TFII Orphan Nuclear Receptor Expression Is Associated With Tamoxifen Resistance in Breast Cancer Cell Lines (Mentor: C. M. Klinge, Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology)
Second Place - Thomas S. Higgins, Jr., Depression is Associated with Heart Disease in Older Adult Male Type II Diabetics Visiting the VA Hospital (Mentor: C.S. Ritchie, Department of Medicine)
Honorable Mention - Michael D. Mays, Adrenomedullin Is Increased in the Portal Circulation During Chronic Sepsis (Mentor: R.N. Garrison, Department of Surgery)
Second-year Medical Students
First Place - Warner Wang, E2F-1 Induced Apoptosis in Human Melanoma Cells Is Not a Fas-Mediated Event (Mentor: K.M. McMasters, Department of Surgery)
Second Place - Jessica Dennison, Transplantation of Glial Restricted Precursor Cells in Rat Demyelinated Spinal Cord Lesions (Mentor: S.R. Whittemore, Department of Neurological Surgery)
Honorable Mention - W. Taylor Rowlett, Descending Projections from Auditory Thalamus to Olivocochlear Neurons (Mentor: N. Kuwabara, Department of Anatomical Sciences and Neurobiology)
Dental Students
First Place - Marcus Dager, Complex Roles of Endothelin-A Receptor Signaling During Neural Crest Cell Migration And Proliferation (Mentor: D. E. Clothier, School of Dentistry)
Second Place (tie) - Ben Alderdice, Human Estrogen Receptors-? and ? as Probes in a Biosensor for Therapeutic & Environmental Estrogen-Mimics (Mentor: J.L. Wittliff, Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology)
Second Place (tie) - Joseph Felle, Zfhep Expression During Myogenesis In Vivo (Mentor: D.S. Darling, School of Dentistry/Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology)
