Medicine & Physiology (Senior Division)
Alzheimer's disease affects over 55 million people worldwide, and emerging research shows that 40 Hz auditory stimulation can drive gamma-frequency brain rhythms that help clear toxic amyloi…
Medicine & Physiology (Track 2) (Senior Division)
Counterfeit drugs have become increasingly prevalent globally, posing a serious threat to patient safety and healthcare systems, especially in lower-resourced areas. Counterfeit medications…
Medicine & Physiology (Track 2) (Senior Division)
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), a progressive neurodegenerative disease that attacks the motor neurons responsible for controlling voluntary muscles, displays marked clinical heterogene…
Medicine & Physiology (Senior Division)
Rock climbing is inaccessible to individuals with hand amputations because existing myoelectric prosthetics cannot perform sport-specific grips like crimps, pinches, and slopers. This projec…
Medicine & Physiology (Junior Division)
Cough remains one of the most prominent medical indicators of illness, amassing 120M+ clinical visits per year in the US alone. Although coughing is a common symptom, dismissing it as trivia…
Medicine & Physiology (Track 2) (Senior Division)
Our project develops a deep learning framework to assist doctors in identifying and diagnosing brain tumors by comparing pre-trained and original models. Using the ResNet50 architecture, our…
Medicine & Physiology (Senior Division)
Neuroblastoma is a pediatric cancer arising from mutated embryonic nerve cell precursors. It is the most common extracranial pediatric solid tumor, yet current therapies are associated with…
Medicine & Physiology (Junior Division)
My science fair project was how electronics may affect vision with children. My goal was to prove my mom wrong so I could play more electronics. I tested using bright surroundings and dark s…
Medicine & Physiology (Track 2) (Senior Division)
SEABED addresses a critical gap in global healthcare: AI-powered breast cancer diagnostics exist but remain inaccessible in low-resource settings due to high hardware costs, bandwidth limita…
Medicine & Physiology (Junior Division)
ACL injuries are becoming increasingly common in young athletes, especially in sports that involve jumping and landing. This experiment investigates whether certain landing mechanics place o…
Medicine & Physiology (Senior Division)
The purpose of this project is to design a non-invasive, multi-sensor scanning device that is capable of detecting retained foreign objects embedded in the epithelial layer of the skin durin…
Medicine & Physiology (Junior Division)
Throughout the past years, the number of people who suffer from sleep apnea has been increasing. One study estimates that by 2050 sleep apnea will affect nearly 77 million adults (Obstructiv…
Medicine & Physiology (Track 2) (Senior Division)
Retinal detachment is a severe ocular condition in which the retina separates from its underlying tissue, potentially causing progressive and irreversible vision loss if left undetected. Tra…
Medicine & Physiology (Junior Division)
The purpose of my experiment is to determine the cardiovascular effects of caffeine on a living organism, specifically on the heart. I think that if I increase the amount of caffeine then th…
Medicine & Physiology (Senior Division)
Black women die from ER-positive breast cancer at higher rates than white women despite similar diagnoses. This study tested whether ER-positive (ER+) tumors lie on a continuous EMT–ESR1 lan…
Medicine & Physiology (Track 2) (Senior Division)
The human leukocyte antigen (HLA) system comprises over 20,000 alleles, making immune recognition one of the most polymorphic biological processes. Therapeutic proteins encode overlapping pe…
Medicine & Physiology (Junior Division)
Athletes’ training causes them to have high heart rates, gaining an irregular heart causing chest pain, dizziness, and difficulty breathing from palpitations. This project focuses on which u…
Medicine & Physiology (Track 2) (Senior Division)
Alcohol use disorder (AUD) remains a major public health concern in the United States, and it affects approximately half of individuals with chronic alcohol dependence. Withdrawal is associa…
Medicine & Physiology (Junior Division)
Diabetes mellitus is a disease of persistently elevated glucose levels that occurs when the body cannot regulate insulin and glucagon levels. With diabetes mortality increasing, there is a c…
Medicine & Physiology (Junior Division)
The purpose of this experiment is to determine which resting position causes heart rate to go down the fastest after exercising. The heart rate was measured in each of the three resting posi…
Medicine & Physiology (Track 2) (Senior Division)
ThermaScreen aims to develop and validate an affordable AI-based spatial thermal imaging system for preventive home-based inflammatory screening, with surgical wound monitoring as its primar…
Medicine & Physiology (Senior Division)
This experiment uses high-performance liquid chromatography tandem mass spectroscopy (HPLC-MS/MS) to measure estradiol changes in hair due to hormone suppression for breast cancer treatment.…
Medicine & Physiology (Senior Division)
Several studies have investigated the influence of Topical Melatonin in various skin conditions. Specific studies show that it has promise in chronic Atopic Dermatitis (AD) treatment, due to…
Medicine & Physiology (Track 2) (Senior Division)
Stuttering is a common yet challenging speech disorder affecting approximately 80 million working adults worldwide and about 3 million individuals in the United States. For many, it is a chr…
Medicine & Physiology (Junior Division)
Neurological tremors , including those caused by Parkinson’s disease and other tremor disorders can significantly impair daily functioning, making routine tasks difficult and reducing indepe…
Medicine & Physiology (Track 2) (Senior Division)
Pancreatic cancer remains one of the deadliest cancers worldwide, as pancreatic tumors are small and often obscured by surrounding anatomical structures. Computed tomography (CT) is the prim…
Medicine & Physiology (Junior Division)
Prosthetics are everywhere these days, and lots of people with them are proud to show them off! However, there is one major problem in the prosthetic field, and that is cost. Due to intensiv…
Medicine & Physiology (Senior Division)
For patients with end-stage heart failure, receiving a heart transplant (HTx) increases their one-year survival chances by nearly fourfold. With 20% experiencing depression and 48.9% waiting…
Medicine & Physiology (Track 2) (Senior Division)
Central vision loss affects over 200 million people worldwide, arising from macular diseases including age-related macular degeneration, Stargardt disease, and diabetic macular edema. As cen…
Medicine & Physiology (Track 2) (Senior Division)
Can neuron resilience be predicted as a topological failure of cellular identity? Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a fatal neurodegenerative disease marked by TDP-43 aggregation and mo…