First-year Medical Students

First Place Award:  Danielle Minnillo, “Identification and characterization of a specific  subpopulation of angiogenic spinal microvessels binding the Griffonia simplicifolia isolectin B4 following traumatic spinal cord injury (SCI)”.  Mentor:  Scott Whittemore, Ph.D., Department of Neurological Surgery

Second Place Award:  Chris Snowdy, “Effect of Pre-natal Smoking on Visual Evoked Response Potentials (ERPs) in 4-5 year old Children”.  Mentor:  Tori Molfese, Ph.D., Center for Research in Early Childhood

Second to Fourth-year Medical Students

First Place Award:  Ryan Bennett, “Transcriptional regulation of the sodium-phosphate cotransporter (NaPi) by NHERF-1 (sodium hydrogen exchanger regulatory factor)”.  Mentor:  Eleanor Lederer, M.D., Department of Medicine

Second Place Award:  Jon Hunsaker, “Structural Remodeling of Afferent Vagal Innervation (Baroreceptors) in Aortic Arch of Aging Rats”.  Mentor:   Jack Cheng, Ph.D., Department of Pediatrics

Dental Students

First Place Award:  Nick Einbender, “Proteomic analyses of low molecular weight components of salivary gland secretions”.  Mentor:  Richard Feldhoff, Ph.D. Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

Second Place Award:  Hannah Bishop, “Influences of tobacco smoke constituents on HL-60 apoptosis”.  Mentor: David Scott, Ph.D., Department of Periodontics, Endodontics and Dental Hygiene

Third Place Award:  Mazyar Moshiri, “Linear measurement accuracy of IP and CBCT-generated Cephalograms”.  Mentor:  William Scarfe,  B.D.S., M.S., Department of Surgical/Hospital Dentistry

Nursing/Public Health Graduate Students

First Place Award:  Carla Judd, B.S., B.S.N., R.N., "Barriers and facilitators of physical activity: An underserved neighborhood’s view".  Mentor:  Kay Roberts, Ed.D., ARNP, FAAN, School of Nursing

Second Place Award:  Melissa Pinto-Foltz, B.S.N., R.N., Ph.D., “Outcomes of exposure to community violence in postpartum adolescents”.  Mentor:  M. Cynthia Logsdon, DNS, ARNP, School of Nursing

Third Place Award:  Mourad Atlas, Ph.D., “Parallel computing in statistical-validation of clustering algorithm for the analysis of high throughput data”.  Mentor:  Susmitta Datta, Ph.D., Department of Bioinformatics and Biostatistics, School of Public Health

Jewish Hospital Innovation in Nursing Research

Winning Team:  Kim M. Kisegy and Kellie Embry