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
