Professional Students
Medical, Dental, Nursing
First-year Medical Students
First Place - Christian A. Unick, "Gonadotroph Responsiveness to PACAP During Early Development in the Male Rat", Mentor: Dr. Stephen Winters
Second Place – James M. Massey, "Vesicular Glutamate Transporter 1 as an Anatomical Marker of Adult Rat Dorsal Column Axon Synapse Formation", Mentor: Dr. Stephen Onifer
Honorable Mention – (Ms.) Taylor Benoit, "Paramedic’s Failure to Administer Aspirin to Chest Pain Patients: Is it the Paramedic, the Protocol, or the Paperwork?", Mentor: Dr. Timothy Price
Honorable Mention – Allison M. Phelps, "β-Glucan Immunotherapy Functions with Either Small Soluble Single-Chain Molecules or Large Molecules in a Triple Helix Conformation", Mentor: Dr. Gordon Ross
Second-year Medical Students
First Place – Ben Frazier Taylor, "Arsenite Induced Mitotic Arrest is Characterized by Stabilization of Cyclin B in TR9-7 Cells and Mitotic Exit is Dependent on P53 Expression", Mentor: J. Christopher States
Second Place – Aimee R. Bohn, ">Role of Estrogen Receptors Alpha and Beta in Human Lung Cancer", Mentor: Dr. Carolyn M. Klinge
Dental Students
Jewish Hospital Innovation in Nursing Research
Winners - Dianne Carter-Gentry, MSN, ARNP and Cynthia McCurren, PhD, RN. "Organ Procurement from the Perspective of Operating Room Nurses: A Phenomenological Study"