Doctoral Basic-Science Graduate Students

1st Place: Bin Hong, MS / Point-of-Care Microfluidic Sensing Device for Rapid and Accurate Acute Myocardial Infarction Diagnosis/Prognosis / Mentor: Kyung A. Kang, PhD, Department of Chemical Engineering

2nd Place: Kunal Rehani, BS / Suppression of the P. Gingivalis-induced Inflammatory Response of Monocytes by Tobacco Smoke / Mentor: Michael Martin, Ph.D.

3rd Place: Elangovan Krishnan, MB, BS / Role of Leukotriene B4 and Its High Affinity Receptor BLT1 in Inflammation Promoted Lung Cancer / Mentor: Haribabu Bodduluri, PhD, Department of Microbiology and Immunology

3rd Place: Jason E Beare, BGS / Kinematic Analysis of Treadmill Walking in Normal and Contused Mice Using the TreadScan System / Mentor: Scott R Whittemore, PhD, Department of Neurological Surgery

Honorable Mention: Chad Dumstorf, BS / Participation of Mouse DNA Polymerase Iota in Strand-biased Mutagenic Bypass of UV Photoproducts and Suppression of Skin Cancer / Mentor: Glenn McGregor, MD, Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology

Honorable Mention: James J. Lee, BS / Effects of Imidazole and pH on Protein C Purification from Cohn Fraction IV-1 by Metal Affinity Chromatography / Mentor: Kyung A. Kang, PhD, Chemical Engineering

Masters Basic-Science Graduate Students

1st Place: Sai Yalla, MS / Does the NIOSH Lifting Limit Prevent Work Related Low Back Injuries? / Mentor: Naira H Campbell-Kyureghyan, PhD, Department of Industrial Engineering

2nd Place: Renate Cochrum, BS, BA / The Role of SF-1 and COUP-TFI in Andrenal Steroidogenesis / Mentor: Barbara Clark, PhD, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Nursing/Public Health Graduate Students

1st Place: Yanbin Dong, MS / Gene Therapy for Melanoma with Recombinant Adenovirus Expressing Wild Type and Truncated E2F1--A Bench and Preclinical Study. / Mentor: Kelly McMasters, MD, PhD

2nd Place: Christopher Barnes, MSPH / Participant Adherence in a RCT of Lung Cancer Screening: Results from Baseline to Year 1 / Mentor: Jamie Studts, PhD

2nd Place: Therese Hughes, MPA / Estimate of All-cause Mortality Among Workers at the Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant (PGDP) / Mentor: Susan Muldoon, PhD, MPH

Engineering Collaboration

1st Place: Hanzhu Jin (with Bin Hong, Sham Kakar, Ph. D, Kyung Kang, PhD) for "Tumor Specific Nano-Entity as an Optical/thermal Marker for Breast Cancer Detection and Treatment"

2nd Place: Emily Hemberger (with Gina Bertocci, PhD, Karen Frost, PhD, Mary Clyde Pierce, MD) for "Identification of a Low Risk Zone for Pediatric Spiral Femur Fractures"