Graduate Students

Masters Basic Science Student Division

First Place Award:  Seniha Yuksel, B.Sc., “Automatic Detection of Acute Rejection after Renal Transplantation”.  Mentor:  Aly Farag, Ph.D., Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
 
Second Place Award:  Brad Drury, M.S., “Direct Delivery of Mg-ATP using Lyophilized Fusogenic Lipid Vesicles”.  Mentor:  Claudio Maldonado, Ph.D. Department of Surgery

Third Place Award:  S. Denise Thomas, B.A., “Patient Attitudes toward Self-Sampling for HPV-DNA Testing”.  Mentor:  Jamie Studts, Ph.D. Department of  Medicine

Doctorate Basic Science Student Division

First Place Award:  D. Alan Kerr, “Gene Expression Profiling of LCM-Procured Carcinoma Cells from Frozen Biopsies & Formalin-Fixed, Paraffin-Embedded (FFPE) Tissues”.  Mentor:  James L. Wittliff, Ph.D. Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

Second Place Award:  Mesia Moore Steed, M.S., “Mechanisms of Vascular Remodeling in eNOS Knockout Mice”.  Mentor:  Suresh C. Tyagi, Ph.D.,  Department of Physiology & Biophysics

Third Place Award:  Frazier Taylor, B.S., “Mentor:  P53 Suppression of Arsenite-Induced Mitotic Catastrophe is Mediated by p21WAF1/CIP1”.  Mentor:  J. Christopher States, Ph.D., Department of Pharmacology & Toxicology

Honorable Mention:  Sarah A. Andres, “Establishing Concise Molecular Signatures from Human Breast Carcinoma Specimens for Clinical Applications”.  Mentor:  James L. Wittliff, Ph.D.  Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

Honorable Mention: Yu Zang, M.S., “Genetic Polymorphisms of Human N-acetyltransferase 2 Influences the Bioactivation of Aromatic and Heterocyclic Amines.”  Mentor:   David Hein, Ph.D. Department of Pharmacology & Toxicology

Engineering Collaboration

First Place:  Mohamed Hassouna, Ph.D., “ColonSplit: A New Visualization Technique for Virtual Colonoscopy”.  Mentor:   Aly Farag, Ph.D., Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Second Place:  Ayman El-Baz. “Automatic Detection and Recognition of Lung Abnormalities in Spiral CT Images Using Deformable Templates”.  Mentor:  Aly Farag, PhD, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering