This year's student research forums yielded an abundance of research from medical students and M.S. and Ph.D. candidates. Following is a list of the winners of the 2007 Medical Student Research Forum and the 19th Annual Graduate Student Research Forum.
2007 Medical Student Research Forum Results
Basic Science Research: Oral Presentations
Winner of the Dean's Medical Student Research Award
Cheng-Chia (Fred) Wu
"Serial In Vivo Imaging of the Lung Metastases Model and Gene
Therapy Using HSV1-tk and Ganciclovir"
Second Place
Raghav Sharma
"Mutational Analysis of Argos, a Secreted Inhibitor of Epidermal
Growth Factor in Drosophila"
Third Place
Samuel Coffin
"Role of the NADPH Oxidase in the Regulation of Cardiac NO Bioactivity
in Response to a Low Salt Diet"
Clinical Science Research: Oral Presentations
Winner of the Dean's Medical Student Research Award
Douglas Liou
"FDG-PET in the Detection of Axillary Metastasis: A Potential
New Role in Patient Management"
Second Place
Jessica Lee
"A Comparison of Broviac Lines Inserted at Bedside vs. in the
Operating Room"
Third Place
John N. Gaetano
"Laparoscopic Donor Nephrectomy: Intraoperative Safety, Immediate
Morbidity, and Delayed Complications with 500 Cases"
Winning Poster Presentations
Basic Science Research
T. Scott Nowicki
"Genome-wide Analysis of Differential Gene Expression Modulated
by Butyric Acid in HL-60 Cells"
Clinical Science Research
Angela P.H. Burgess
"On-site Monitoring of Prothrombin Time (PT)\ and Activated Partial
Thromboplastin Time (aPTT) During Liver Transplant Surgery"
The 19th Annual Graduate Student Research Forum Results
Oral Presentations
First Place
Yue Fu
"Quinone Reductase 2 Plays a Role in Parkinson’s Disease by Regulating
Catecholamine Oxidation"
Second Place
Min Hong
"Priming of Intracellular Calcium Stores in Rat CA1 Hippocampal
Neurons"
Third Place
Nicholas Kummer
"Lipoxygenase Expression in Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma, a Correlation
with Tumor Grade"
Poster Presentations
Senior Student Category
First Place Tie
Elvira Liclican
"Failure to Upregulate the Adenosine 2A Receptor (A2AR)-Epoxyeicosatrienoic
Acid (EET) Pathway May Be a Contributing Factor in the Development
of Salt-Induced Hypertension in Dahl Salt-Sensitive (DS) Rats"
First Place Tie
Robert Suriano
"The N-Linked Glycans of the Tumor Rejection Antigen GP96 Modulate
Its Adjuvant Properties"
Third Place
Tie Qiong Qin
"The Role of NPD1 on Retinal Ganglion Cell Death Following Optic
Nerve Transection"
Third Place Tie
Qun Gao
"Increased Mitochondrial ROS Impairs Vaso-relaxation to Hypoxia
in Bovine Coronary Arteries"
Poster Presentations
Novice Category
First Place
Yester Skayian
"Role of the NADPH Oxidase in the Regulation of Cardiac NO Bioactivity
in Response to a Low Salt Diet"
Second Place
Jennifer Cheng
"20-Hydroxyeicosatetraenoic Acid Contributes to Endothelial Dysfunction
via Enos Uncoupling"
Third Place Tie
Alexander Leedom
"15-Lipoxygenase: A Resident Protective Pathway in the Cornea
Suppresses Inflammatory Neovascularization"
Third Place Tie
Sini Skariah
"Molecular Mediators of Toxoplasma Gondii Presistence in Macrophages"
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