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ISEF · 2018
Biochemistry First Award
Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) is a novel 3D-imaging modality, however there has been limited research utilizing OCT to study physiological impacts of ion-blocking drugs, namely Class I,…
ISEF · 2018
Physics and Astronomy First Award
Collective motion has attracted increasing interest in recent years as it is observed in a wide variety of applications such as the flocking behavior of birds or self-assembling nanoparticle…
ISEF · 2018
Behavioral and Social Sciences First Award
Facial expressions, particularly smiles, have implications for debilitating psychiatric disorders such as autism, depression, and schizophrenia, which make them a critical area for study. As…
ISEF · 2018
Environmental Engineering First Award
By 2050, global population is projected to reach 9 billion people. Farmers need to implement innovative methods like Precision Agriculture to produce 70% more food to feed everyone on existi…
ISEF · 2018
Chemistry First Award
Farms in Singapore are encouraged to harness technology to optimise food production. Currently, local farms produce 26% of eggs consumed in the nation. While we address food security needs,…
ISEF · 2018
Systems Software First Award
Medical errors caused by a lack of interoperability between healthcare entities are the third leading cause of deaths in United States, with a reported 250,000 deaths in the past year alone.…
ISEF · 2017
Systems Software First Award
Python's list.sort() is uses an extremely sophisticated and highly tuned algorithm, designed to minimize the number of comparisons necessary to sort lists with real-world structure. However,…
ISEF · 2017
Physics and Astronomy First Award
When paraffin is placed on a heat source, a wisp of smoke forms. The project aims to discover some characteristics of this smoke and quantitatively explain them. First of all, the morphology…
ISEF · 2017
Microbiology First Award
With the growing issue of antibiotic resistant bacteria, anti-virulence therapies have emerged as an attractive and effective treatment regimen against pathogenic proliferation, which do not…
ISEF · 2017
Biomedical and Health Sciences First Award
Coronary Artery Disease is often characterized as the world’s deadliest disease, leading to the mortality of 7.4 million individuals in 2012. In addition, the adverse effects of Chemotherapy…
ISEF · 2017
Engineering Mechanics First Award
Despite industrialization, Sub-Saharan Africa’s water infrastructure leaves ~341 million people without access to potable water. In addition to water purification problems, transportation pr…
ISEF · 2017
Materials Science First Award
Nanoporous graphene membranes have the potential to solve the problem of a dwindling supply of fresh water that affects nearly half the world’s population by enabling low cost, efficient des…
ISEF · 2017
Biomedical Engineering First Award
Intracortical microelectrodes are essential tools in the rapidly growing brain-computer interface (BCI) and brain-machine interface (BMI) fields. The development of flexible intracortical mi…
ISEF · 2017
Earth and Environmental Sciences First Award
From the 1940’s, radionuclides were widely dispersed in the environment from atmospheric nuclear testing and reactor waste. Since, environmental radioactive monitoring systems have been sign…
ISEF · 2017
Translational Medical Science First Award
One in eight women will develop breast cancer in their lifetime. Radiotherapy treatment is recommended after initial surgery to substantially reduce the risk of site specific relapse. Howeve…
ISEF · 2017
Chemistry First Award
Conventionally, ferromagnetic materials are restricted to metallic regime such as iron and nickel. However, if ferromagnetic behavior could be induced in organic polymers - it would offer ve…
ISEF · 2017
Animal Sciences First Award
Combinations of female wingbeat acoustic cues and visual cues were evaluated to determine their potential for use in male Aedes aegypti (L.) traps in peridomestic environments, potentially t…
ISEF · 2017
Cellular and Molecular Biology First Award
It is evident that the tongue perceives tactile sensation, but little is known about the neurons that mediate this. Since tropomyosin receptor kinase C (TrkC) neurons are mechanoreceptors on…
ISEF · 2017
Behavioral and Social Sciences First Award
Adolescents are more likely to engage in risky, impulsive, and thrill-seeking behaviors. Research shows that one key reason for this is that the adolescent period is a time of ongoing brain…
ISEF · 2017
Plant Sciences First Award
The purpose is to determine if mycorrhizal fungi can protect corn plants from corn smut infections. If corn smut is exposed to the symbiotic relationships between corn plants and various myc…
ISEF · 2017
Environmental Engineering First Award
Due to the recent Flint Water Crisis, much attention has been directed again towards the presence of heavy metals in water and its health and environmental implications. There also remains a…
ISEF · 2016
First Award
Cancer vaccines are a revolutionary field of cancer therapeutics that aim to utilize the body’s natural defenses to treat cancer. Through this research, I optimized an effective anti-cancer…
ISEF · 2016
First Award
Multifactorial diseases are a product of simultaneous alterations in several genes. However, there exists no computationally robust method to fully understand the relationship between co-alt…
ISEF · 2016
First Award
As the world’s population continues to grow, and the percentage of farmers continues to decline, we are forced to find new ways to feed a hungry humanity. I have an idea. Satellites have bee…
ISEF · 2016
First Award
Stepper motors are used in printers, copiers, and industrial machinery because of their low cost, durability, and high positioning and holding performance. However, they have high power cons…
ISEF · 2016
First Award
The novel haptic robotic surgical controller developed in this research is the only robotic gripper prototype to offer a surgeon the intuitive ability to remotely grasp an object, and to acc…
ISEF · 2016
First Award
Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is a significant global health problem that affects 10% of the world’s population and costs over $200 billion to treat every year. A new treatment for CKD is des…
ISEF · 2016
First Award
Microbial fuel cells (MFCs) are devices that use bacteria to catalyze the conversion of waste into electricity. Although MFCs are a promising technology for sustainable energy production, fu…
ISEF · 2016
First Award
Over 6 million individuals in the US alone who lack leg muscle function due to illnesses like multiple sclerosis, spinal injury or poliomyelitis require Knee-Ankle-Foot-Orthoses (KAFOs), dev…
ISEF · 2016
First Award
The hemibiotrophic fungal pathogen Leptosphaeria maculans, the causative agent of blackleg disease, is the most devastating pathogen of canola (Brassica napus), causing $1.5 billion USD in w…