First Year Medical Student

Winner: Jonathan Byers, Demyelination Pre-Treatment Facilitates Gene Delivery to the Spinal Cord Following Viral Vector Peripheral Nerve Injection.  Mentor:  Christopher Shields, M.D., Neurological Surgery

Second – Fourth Year Medical Students

First Place: Toros Dincman, Transcriptomic and Proteomic Analysis of Spinal Microvascular Endothelial Plasticity Following Focal Ischemic Spinal Cord Injury.  Mentor:  Scott Whittemore, Ph.D., Neurological Surgery

Second Place: Brandon Cain, Cardiovascular and Blood Chemistry Responses in a Model of Acute Brain Death in Rats.  Mentor:  Richard Garrison, M.D., Surgery

Third Place: Chester Mays, Mesenteric Lymph Flow Rates and Composition During Resuscitated Hemorrhagic Shock. Mentor:  Richard Garrison, M.D., Surgery

Nursing/Public Health Graduate Students 

First Place: Vasyl Pihur, Reconstruction of Genetic Association Networks from Microarray Data: A Partial Least Squares Approach.  Mentor: Somnath Datta, Ph.D., School of Public Health and Information Sciences

Second Place: Whitney Nash, Sexual Relationship Power in Belizean Women; Psychometric Evaluation of the Sexual Relationship Power Scale.  Mentor:  Robert Topp, Ph.D., School of Nursing

Third Place:  Christopher Barnes, A Pilot Clinical Decision Rule for Differential Diagnosis between Late Onset Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia and Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome in Adolescent Females. Mentor:  Jennifer Dietrich, M.D., Obstetrics and Gynecology, Baylor College of Medicine

Dental Students

First Place:  Caleb Bastian, Systems-Based Analysis of Developmental Programming of the Mammary Gland using Bayesian Variable Selection. Mentor:   Thomas Knudsen, Molecular, Cellular and Craniofacial Biology

Second Place:  April Brown, Comparative Linear Accuracy of Cone Beam CT Derived 3D Images in Orthodontic Analysis. Mentor:  William Scarfe, D.M.D., School of Dentistry

Third Place-Tie:  Hannah R. Bishop, Nicotine Induces Differing Cytokine Release Profiles in LPS-stimulated Neutrophils and Monocytes. Mentor:  D. A. Scott, School of Dentistry

Third Place-Tie: Andrew S. Currie, Salivary Gland Acinar Cell De-differentiation Is Not Prevented by Serum Factors. Mentor:  Douglas S. Darling, Ph.D., Oral Health and Systemic Disease