Professional/Clinical Students

Medical Students

First Place: Carlo Bartoli, "Novel J-Stents Reduce the Risk of Embolic Stoke in Vitro."  Mentor:  Guruprasad Giridharan, Ph.D., Cardiovascular Innovation Institute

Second Place: Chad Hargrove, "Modeling Collateral Sprouting of Spared Axons after Injury."  Mentor:  Jeff Petruska, Ph.D., Anatomical Sciences and Neurobiology

Third Place: Wendye Walter, "Investigation of Binding Specificity of Antiviral Lectin Griffithsin."  Mentor:  Kenneth Palmer, Ph.D., Pharmacology

Public Health Graduate Students 

First Place: Juliet Ndukum, "Comparisons Between Molecular Profiles of Perterbed Cells Using NMR Produced Sparse Biological Time Series Data."  Mentor: Susmita Data, Ph.D., Bioinformatics and Biostatistics

Second Place: Sula Hood, "Gender Differences in Facilitators and barriers to Type-2 Diabetes Adherence in African Americans."  Mentor:  Diane Chlebowy, Ph.D., RN, School of Nursing

Dental Students

First Place:  Caleb Bastian, "Bayesian Reliability Analysis of Endosseous Implant Bucco-lingual Bone Loss."  Mentor:   Allan Farman, BDS, Ph.D., Surgical and Hospital Dentistry

Second Place:  Jessica Bondy, "Altered Developmental Programming of the Mouse Mammary Gland in Female Offspring Following Perinatal Dietary Exposures."  Mentor:  David Scott, Ph.D., Oral Health and Systemic Diseases Research Group

Third Place:  Angrew Currie, "DNA Methylation of Marker Genes During Dedifferentiation of Parotid Cells."  Mentor:  Douglas Darling, Ph.D., Periodontics, Endodontics and Dental Hygiene