Browse 1,116 real Biomedical and Health Sciences projects from CSEF, with abstracts, awards and links to the original entries.
CSEF · 2026
Medicine & Physiology (Senior Division)
Breast cancer is the leading cause of cancer-related death among women, with approximately 42,000 deaths annually in the United States and over 700,000 worldwide. A majority of these deaths…
CSEF · 2026
Medicine & Physiology (Track 2) (Senior Division)
Bacillus Thuringiensis is a bacterium which, in a study led by Mizuki et. al. in 1999-2000, had been discovered to produce a variety of special Cry(Crystal) proteins in the pesticidal bacter…
CSEF · 2026
Medicine & Physiology (Track 2) (Senior Division)
PROBLEM Cerebral aneurysm rupture causes subarachnoid hemorrhage with a 50% mortality rate. The current clinical detection tool, the PHASES score, has an AUC of 0.64 and misclassifies 70-80%…
CSEF · 2026
Medicine & Physiology (Track 2) (Senior Division)
Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is an autoimmune disease affecting approximately 18 million people worldwide. Many treatments rely on monoclonal antibody drugs that block inflammatory signals such…
CSEF · 2026
Medicine & Physiology (Junior Division)
Project Number: 081-670-81 Title: AI Model Defining Heart Healthy Foods Team Member(s): Wanqi Li Purpose: This project builds an AI-assisted tool that helps people identify heart-healthy foo…
CSEF · 2026
Medicine & Physiology (Senior Division)
Oral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC), a major subtype of head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSC), is characterized by aggressive extracellular matrix (ECM) degradation driven in part by…
CSEF · 2026
Medicine & Physiology (Track 2) (Senior Division)
Chronic Hypersensitivity Pneumonitis (CHP) is a progressive interstitial lung disease caused by repeated inhalation of environmental antigens and is particularly prevalent among agricultural…
CSEF · 2026
Medicine & Physiology (Track 2) (Senior Division)
Sleep apnea, a disorder in which breathing repeatedly stops and starts during sleep due to airway obstruction or disrupted brain signaling, affects over one billion people worldwide.However,…
CSEF · 2026
Medicine & Physiology (Junior Division)
An AI Approach: Photo-Based Jaundice Detection and Prediction in Newborns Ronika Pillarisetty J-15-17 I did not use AI, when writing this abstract, these are my own words and data analysis f…
CSEF · 2026
Medicine & Physiology (Track 2) (Senior Division)
Clinical decision-making relies heavily on patient documentation, rich in temporal detail, context, and clinician reasoning, contained in electronic health records, yet much of this informat…
CSEF · 2026
Medicine & Physiology (Junior Division)
Oral health plays a critical role in overall health and long-term wellness. Maintaining proper brushing technique is essential, yet many people struggle to consistently identify and clean ar…
CSEF · 2026
Medicine & Physiology (Senior Division)
Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) is one of the most lethal cancers, with a survival rate of approximately 13%. 90% of PDAC tumors possess KRAS mutations, which drive tumor hyperprolif…
CSEF · 2026
Medicine & Physiology (Senior Division)
Age-related hearing loss is associated with increased risk of cognitive decline, yet many predictive models rely on averaged hearing thresholds that may oversimplify clinically relevant audi…
CSEF · 2026
Medicine & Physiology (Senior Division)
Cancer pain affects 66% of patients during treatment and up to 90% with advanced disease (van den Beuken-van Everdingen et al., 2016), making morphine essential in treatment. However, clinic…
CSEF · 2026
Medicine & Physiology (Senior Division)
Eosinophilic Esophagitis (EoE) is a chronic, immune-mediated esophageal disorder that currently requires repeated invasive endoscopic biopsies for diagnosis and disease monitoring. The absen…
CSEF · 2026
Medicine & Physiology (Junior Division)
Objective: My project objective was to determine how carbohydrates affect glucose levels during exercise as a Type 1 Diabetic. I chose this project because I wanted to do something I persona…
CSEF · 2026
Medicine & Physiology (Senior Division)
Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is one of the leading causes of morbidity worldwide, affecting over half a billion individuals globally and approximately 127.9 million adults in the United Stat…
CSEF · 2026
Medicine & Physiology (Junior Division)
Parkinson’s Disease(PD) is a progressive neurological disorder that destroys the brain cells that produce dopamine, resulting in movement-related symptoms such as tremors, and stiffness. In…
CSEF · 2026
Medicine & Physiology (Senior Division)
The popularization of machine learning has prompted the introduction of specialized predictor and generator models utilized for the analysis of toxicity and assessment of chemicals. However,…
CSEF · 2026
Medicine & Physiology (Track 2) (Senior Division)
Dancers are susceptible to a variety of injuries due to repetitive motion and physical strain, with 8 in 10 dancers getting injured each year and 72% of injuries occurring below the Ultimate…
CSEF · 2026
Medicine & Physiology (Junior Division)
Out-of-hospital cardiac arrest survival depends on effective cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), which maintains blood flow to the brain and vital organs. However, CPR quality often decline…
CSEF · 2026
Medicine & Physiology (Senior Division)
Myxomatous Degeneration of the Mitral Valve (MDMV) affects 16 million people worldwide, characterized by weak and swollen leaflet tissue caused by over accumulated glycosaminoglycans (GAGs)…
CSEF · 2026
Medicine & Physiology (Junior Division)
Can integrating a dataset uncover heart failure that may be overlooked in single-study analyses? Chronic Heart Failure (CHF) shows widespread remodeling, yet many individual studies are cons…
CSEF · 2026
Medicine & Physiology (Senior Division)
Measles is a highly contagious respiratory infection that can spread before clinical diagnosis, because transmission often occurs during the prodromal phase when symptoms resemble common vir…
CSEF · 2026
Medicine & Physiology (Junior Division)
Superficial Spreading Melanoma (SSM) accounts for approximately 70% of melanoma cases and can be fatal if not detected early. This project aimed to develop a computer-based method to assist…
CSEF · 2026
Medicine & Physiology (Senior Division)
Human midbrain organoids are 3-dimension neural tissues derived from iPSC-stem cells. As they self-assemble into layered neural networks, these models capture key aspects of developing human…
CSEF · 2026
Medicine & Physiology (Senior Division)
Pulse oximeters are noninvasive, portable devices that measure blood oxygen oxygen levels also known as SpO2. The popularity of the device has led to increased use in household and emergency…
CSEF · 2026
Medicine & Physiology (Junior Division)
The purpose of this study was to determine whether people with blue eyes were more sensitive to light than people with brown eyes. Scientists have found that blue eyes are lighter due to the…
CSEF · 2026
Medicine & Physiology (Junior Division)
Parkinson's disease affects movement by damaging nerve cells in the brain, and these changes can also impact eye movements. This project tested whether a 60 Hz laptop webcam could accurately…
CSEF · 2026
Medicine & Physiology (Track 2) (Senior Division)
Seizures pose an imperative risk due to their frequency rising after the COVID-19 pandemic, with between 25-30% of patients going misdiagnosed or undiagnosed for seizure related conditions s…