Graduate Students

First Place - Kara Collins-Sedoris, "Ischemic preconditioning improves tissue nitric oxide bioavailability by stimulating post-translational interaction between endothelial nitric oxide synthase and heat shock protein 90 during reperfusion. Mentor: Andrew Roberts, Ph.D., Department of Physiology and Biophysics

Second Place - Adrienne Bratcher, "Decreased in vivo Responsiveness to Acetylcholine and Endothelin-1 by Arterioles of Rats on a High Salt Diet." Mentor: Irving Joshua, Ph.D., Department of Physiology & Biophysics

Third Place - Rexford Asare, "Genetic Susceptibility to Legionella longbeachae is independent of allelic polymorphism of naip5 and intracellular trafficking of the organism is distinct from Legionella pneumophila." Mentor: Yousef Abu-Kwaik, Ph.D., Department of Microbiology and Immunology

Third Place - Wen-Hai Shao, "BLT2 is a Novel Target for Vascular Disease." Mentor: Haribabu Bodduluri, Ph.D., Department of Microbiology and Immunology

Third Place - Matthew Spite, "Inhibition of Aldehyde Metabolism Exacerbates Atherosclerosis in apo E-null mice." Mentors: Aruni Bhatnagar, Ph.D., Department of Medicine and Stanley D’Souza, Ph.D., Department of Physiology and Biophysics

Engineering Collaboration

First Place - Ji-Tzuoh Lin (Graduate Student), "Long-term Objective Strain Monitoring for Post-Spinal Fusion Surgery." Mentor: Kevin Walsh, Ph.D., Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Second Place - Benjamin J. Johnson (2nd-year Medical Student), "Effect of Diesel Exhaust Particulate Extracts on Endothelial Cell Function." Mentor: Carolyn Klinge, Ph.D., Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

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