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ISEF · 2024
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Glyphosate, the active ingredient used in many herbicides, has seen extensive use, surpassing over 1.6 billion kilograms since 1974. With this widespread use, humans have begun to experience…
ISEF · 2024
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Levetiracetam, otherwise known as Keppra, is an anti-seizure medication. It is used to prevent seizures in people who have epilepsy. Due to the fact that Keppra is a preventative medication,…
ISEF · 2024
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Purpose: Age-related macular degeneration (AMD), a devastating neurodegenerative eye disease leading to total blindness, affects 200 million people worldwide. The project focused on identify…
ISEF · 2024
Translational Medical Science
This experiment aimed to continue the search for a cure for celiac disease using mesenchymal stem cells by inhibiting the PD-L1/PD-1 pathway to determine whether it was a contributing factor…
ISEF · 2024
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Hardikar Syndrome (HS) is a rare genetic disorder characterized by cleft lip/palate, pigmentary retinopathy, intestinal malrotation, and hepatobiliary disease. The disease is known to be cau…
ISEF · 2024
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Alzheimer's Disease(AD) affects more than 6 million people in the US, by causing degeneration of the brain cells, deficiency of cognition and mobility, and even death. As aging progresses, s…
ISEF · 2024
Translational Medical Science Fourth Award
Despite its incurable nature, MSK Life Sync offers AI-driven support to manage Medullary Sponge Kidney (MSK) disease to enhance life quality for sufferers, including children. As highlighted…
ISEF · 2024
Biomedical and Health Sciences Fourth Award
Water pollution is a critical threat to human health as it can lead to increased cancer risk. More than 22 carcinogens can be found in the drinking water, including heavy metals such as lead…
ISEF · 2024
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Purpose: Cutaneous melanoma causes over 8,000 deaths annually in the U.S. Survival differences may be linked to tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes (TILs), white blood cells that eliminates cance…
ISEF · 2024
Translational Medical Science
Latin Americans are the ethnic group with the second highest prevalence of Alzheimer's disease cases. However, most studies on this condition have been conducted in European populations. To…
ISEF · 2024
Translational Medical Science
Our software system is designed to assist medical personnel in early diagnosing and prognosticating of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), a neurodegenerative disease that is often misdiagn…
ISEF · 2024
Translational Medical Science
Malaria is a deadly disease that claims the lives of over 460,000 children annually. Current diagnostic methods use labor-intensive microscopy to image Giemsa-stained blood smears, limiting…
ISEF · 2024
Translational Medical Science
This experiment studies if a restricted diet improves the health of pregnant BPH/5 mice and their offspring. BPH/5 mice have high blood pressure during pregnancy, which mimics the symptoms o…
ISEF · 2024
Translational Medical Science
Acute kidney failure (AKF) is a worldwide growing clinical problem affecting over 13 million people and resulting in 1.7 million deaths annually. AKF symptoms are not noticeable in the early…
ISEF · 2024
Translational Medical Science
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common age-related neurodegenerative disease that affects memory and learning. Mitochondria are critical to neuronal function in the brain, and energy me…
ISEF · 2024
Translational Medical Science First Award
Every 3 seconds, someone in the world develops Dementia. By 2050, over 139 million people worldwide will be living with Dementia. Early interventions are crucial in preventing and treating D…
ISEF · 2024
Biomedical and Health Sciences
The purpose of my project is to explore the effects of radiation on daphnia, and the radiation emitted under different apps and settings. What if the part of the reason people got tumors was…
ISEF · 2024
Biomedical and Health Sciences
The California heat waves of 2022 were the most severe on record and will likely increase in the coming years. The increasing heat wave intensities, a common worldwide phenomenon in coastal…
ISEF · 2024
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Osteosarcoma, most commonly found in children, originates in the bones and spreads throughout the body over time. Over the last 30 years, the mortality rate for osteosarcoma has not improved…
ISEF · 2024
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer-related mortality worldwide. Scleroderma-related interstitial lung disease (SSc-ILD) and lung carcinoma are forms of fibrotic-originating lung dise…
ISEF · 2024
Biomedical and Health Sciences
There are currently over 103,000 people on the national transplant waiting list. The kidney has the longest waiting list. Once patients are approved for this treatment there are still many r…
ISEF · 2024
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Annually, 4.8 million people enter a post-anoxic coma following cardiac arrest, presenting a critical need for early recovery prognosis using Electroencephalogram (EEG) and Electrocardiogram…
ISEF · 2024
Translational Medical Science
Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is the leading cause of death among all traumatic injuries. While there are some treatments, such as nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs), most cause de…
ISEF · 2024
Translational Medical Science
HPV driven oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma (OPSCC) linked cancers kill upwards of 40,000 people each year. In order for early detection and treatment to be administered, the NavDx bloo…
ISEF · 2024
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Background Obesity is generally modeled as a problem associated with socioeconomic (income, education, etc.) and genetic (age, race, etc.) factors. This study shows that, after controlling f…
ISEF · 2024
Biomedical and Health Sciences
As Nicotine products are considered less risky than tobacco products, many disregard the negative effects of Nicotine and satisfy themselves with the thought that it won’t harm them. However…
ISEF · 2024
Translational Medical Science
Ataxia Telangiectasia (A-T) is a rare (one in ~100,000) autosomal recessive neurogenetic disorder, primarily characterized by cerebellar atrophy and progressive severe motor coordination los…
ISEF · 2024
Translational Medical Science Fourth Award
A novel, targeted, therapeutic oral delivery system was designed as a blood-thinning treatment to prevent ischemic stroke, caused by blood clots. Dabigatran (Db), is an anticoagulant medicat…
ISEF · 2024
Biomedical and Health Sciences Third Award
Kawasaki Disease (KD) is a febrile illness predominantly affecting children under five years old and is the leading cause of acquired heart disease in children in developed countries. If KD…
ISEF · 2024
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Current radiotherapy treatment for abdominal and pelvic cancers typically results in some form of acute gastrointestinal (GI) toxicity in patients. X-ray irradiation to deep-seated abdominal…