Faculty

Scientific Importance

First Place - John Eaton, Ph.D., Department of Medicine/Brown Cancer Center. "Cardiac Dysfunction in Iron Overload May Arise From Cumulative Damage to Mitochondrial DNA."

Second Place - Yang Wang, M.D., Ph.D., Department of Pediatrics, "Tissue-specific expression of monocarboxylate transport 2 is mediated by multiple transcripts with alternative first exons."

Third Place - Michael Merchant, Ph.D., Department of Medicine, Division of Nephrology, "Proteomic Analysis of Hyperglycemic Effects on a Rat Mesangial Cell Line."

Innovation in Biotechnology

First Place - Kyung Kang, Ph.D., Department of Chemical Engineering, "Nano Meets Cardiology: Novel Nanogold Particle Enhances Fluorescence Up to Ten Times."

Second Place - Beate Rose, Ph.D., Department of Physiology and Biophysics, "Bacillus subtilis: Accelerated Growth using a Newly-Developed Energy-Delivery System.

Third Place - Thomas Knudsen, Ph.D., Department of Physiology and Biophysics, "Design, Development and Implementation of a Birth Defects Systems Manager (BDSM)."

Innovation in Behavioral Sciences

First Place - Dennis Molfese, Ph.D., Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences, "Evidence of Common Brain Mechanisms for Reading and Shape Discrimination in Children."

Second Place - Lonnie Sears, Ph.D., Department of Pediatrics, "Trace Differential Classical Eyeblink Conditioning in Autism."

Third Place - Lisa Ruble, Ph.D., Department of Pediatrics, "Parent Engagment of Children with Autism."

Most Promising Basic Science Research

First Place - Jun Cai, Ph.D., Department of Anatomical Sciences and Neurobiology, "Oligodendrogenesis from dorsal spinal cord independent of Nkx6 redundant regulation during oligodendrocyte development."

Second Place - Pascale, Alard, Ph.D., Department of Microbiology and Immunology, "Restoration of regulatory T cell function and prevention of diabetes development in NOD mice via activation of endogenous APC."

Third Place - Gavin Arteel, Ph.D., Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, "Prevention of ischemic damage to liver with lipid vesicle-delivered ATP: A new therapy to prevent primary graft nonfunction in liver transplantation."

Potential for Major Clinical Applications

First Place - Paula Bates, Ph.D., Department of Medicine, "Activity and Mechanism of AGRO100, a Novel Anti-Cancer Agent."

Second Place - Kenneth Litwak, D.V.M., Ph.D., Department of Surgery, "A Large Animal Model of Diminished Cardiac Function: Monensin Toxicosis in the Calf."

Third Place - William D. Ehringer, Ph.D., Department of Physiology & Biophysics, Decreasing the Effects of Ischemia and Hypoxia Using a Novel ATP Delivery System."