Professional Students

First-year Medical Students

First Place -  Joseph Smith, "Conditioning with TCR-ab monoclonal antibody in the recipient enhances the nonmyeloablative conditioning to produce mixed lymphohematopoietic chimerism in the rat model." Mentor: Suzanne Ildstad, M.D., Department of Surgery/Institute for Cellular Therapeutics

Second Place - Lana Madorsky, "Spectroscopic Evaluation of Lenses from Guinea Pigs Treated In Vivo with Both UVA and Hyperbaric Oxygen." Mentor: Douglas Borchman, Ph.D., Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences

Second to Fourth-year Medical Students

First Place - Mashiur Khan, "Delivery of Exogenous ATP Preserves Na,K ATPase Pump Function During Chemical Hypoxia." Mentor: Claudio Maldonado, Ph.D. Department of Surgery

Second Place - Bradley G. Brewer, "Universal Vaccine for The Prevention of Cancer.", Mentor: John Eaton, Ph.D. Department of Medicine/Brown Cancer Center

Dental Students

First Place - Gwinn Vonnahme, "Multiple Roles for GATA3 during Lower Jaw Development."  Mentor: David Clouthier, Ph.D., Department of Molecular, Cellular and Cranial Biology

Second Place - Andrew Killgore, "Morphological and Cellular Events Contributing to Cleft Palate in Zfhep-null Mouse Embryos."  Mentor: Douglas Darling, Ph.D., Department of Periodontics, Endodontics & Dental Hygiene

Third Place - Oana Bida, "Comparative TMJ Imaging Accuracy using I-CAT Cone Beam Computerized Tomography."  Mentor: William Scarfe, B.D.S., M.S., Department of Surgical/Hospital Dentistry

Jewish Hospital Innovation in Nursing Research

Winners - Kim M. Kisegy and Kellie Embry