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ISEF · 2022
Translational Medical Science
Afflicting 45 million people worldwide, Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative disease that begins 20 years or more before symptoms manifest. Early detection is critical for interve…
ISEF · 2022
Translational Medical Science First Award
85% of Cholangiocarcinoma, a leading cause of mortality in Thailand and Asian countries, is caused by Orphistorchis viverrini (Ov) infection. “CASCAP” organization proactively diagnoses Ov i…
ISEF · 2022
Translational Medical Science
According to the US Breast Cancer Statistics, Breast Cancer has become the most common cancer in women in the United States. About 1 in 8 US women will develop invasive breast cancer over th…
ISEF · 2022
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Public transportation such as buses often plays music at high decibel levels. Knowing this, I tested my hypothesis that bus music volume is above the safe decibel levels for human hearing, u…
ISEF · 2022
Biomedical and Health Sciences Fourth Award
Mitochondrial membrane protein associated neurodegeneration (MPAN) is a subtype of a group of rare neurological disorders termed Neurodegeneration with Brain Iron Accumulation (NBIA). MPAN i…
ISEF · 2022
Translational Medical Science Third Award
Developing clinical Nuclear-factor-kappa-B ( NF-?B) inhibitors persists as an unresolved challenge due to the duality of NF-?B. NF-?B activity in T-cells exerts a protective effect by stimul…
ISEF · 2022
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Heart failure is the number one leading cause of death globally (17.9 million deaths annually). Earlier diagnosis is ideal for the implementation of treatment regimens for the patient. Diagn…
ISEF · 2022
Biomedical and Health Sciences
The objective was to compare antibiotic ointments and skin moisturizers’ ability to inhibit bacteria. The hypothesis was antibiotic ointments will inhibit bacterial growth more than skin moi…
ISEF · 2022
Biomedical and Health Sciences
The purpose of this project is to identify the role of glycolytic inhibitors as repurposed drugs for the cure of Covid-19 through virtual screening and test their efficacy against the inhibi…
ISEF · 2022
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Oxygen is critical to sustain aerobic life. Scientists are developing methods to deliver oxygen to stagnant water and human bodies when perfusion, or the movement of gasses across a membrane…
ISEF · 2022
Biomedical and Health Sciences Second Award
Hormonal breast cancer has a good prognosis compared to other breast cancer subtypes, however, ER-/PR+/HER2-, a hormonal breast cancer type, does not receive the benefits of hormonal therapy…
ISEF · 2022
Biomedical and Health Sciences First Award
There is currently no cure for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), the third leading cause of death worldwide with over 70 million cases and 3.5 million deaths per year. Treatment…
ISEF · 2022
Translational Medical Science
Skin cancer is the most common cancer worldwide, with 2 people dying of skin cancer every hour in the United States alone (Skin Cancer Foundation, 2022). However, if detected early (before t…
ISEF · 2022
Translational Medical Science Fourth Award
Breast cancer is the most diagnosed cancer among women and the 5th leading cause of cancer-related mortality. Women in developing countries, especially sub-Saharan Africa, suffer from the hi…
ISEF · 2022
Biomedical and Health Sciences First Award
Stroke is the second leading cause of death worldwide, with 15 million people suffering from its debilitating effects each year. 87% of strokes are ischemic, where an artery narrows or becom…
ISEF · 2022
Translational Medical Science
Acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) is one of the most common types of cancer in children. This study investigates a natural product that can be used as a possible agent for the treatment of…
ISEF · 2022
Translational Medical Science
More than 70 countries approve the consumption of artificial sweeteners (Ogungbemi et al., 2019). People, including pregnant women, regularly consume artificial sweeteners to substitute suga…
ISEF · 2022
Biomedical and Health Sciences Fourth Award
Alzheimers, a degenerative brain disorder, affected 6.1 million Americans in 2021. This debilitating disease is affecting more individuals each year. It disrupts an individual's cognitive ab…
ISEF · 2022
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Purpose: Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is aggressive cancer with a poor prognosis. Most patients with AML ultimately relapse and succumb to cancer progression after receiving standard treatme…
ISEF · 2022
Translational Medical Science Fourth Award
Congestive heart failure (CHF) affects millions of patients and is associated with a high mortality rate. Early detection and treatment can improve outcomes and avoid hospitalization, but it…
ISEF · 2022
Translational Medical Science
Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is an infectious disease caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus that has been declared a global pandemic since March 2020. Reverse transcription polymerase chain react…
ISEF · 2022
Translational Medical Science Fourth Award
1.5 million Americans suffer a traumatic brain injury every year. Without proper rest after even a mild concussion, repeated injuries to the brain build up and can lead to complications such…
ISEF · 2022
Translational Medical Science
Development of Novel, Selective, Orally Available Small Molecule CDK9 Inhibitors for Prostate Cancer Therapy - Mechanistic studies Abstract: Amplification of N-MYC causes its overexpression…
ISEF · 2022
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common neurodegenerative disease affecting more than 33 million people globally. Although several protein hallmarks associated with AD have been identifi…
ISEF · 2022
Translational Medical Science
Acute Myeloid Leukemia, or AML, is a malignant disorder of the bone marrow in which myeloid blasts engulf the bone marrow. To diagnose AML, physicians observe blast cell counts in the marrow…
ISEF · 2022
Biomedical and Health Sciences
As evidenced by the COVID-19 pandemic, infectious diseases have a dire impact on society. There is an urgent demand for developing strategies against infections. Dietary supplements, such as…
ISEF · 2022
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Limbic-predominant Age-related TDP-43 Encephalopathy (LATE) is an emerging dementia phenotype that mimics Alzheimer’s Disease (AD)-type amnestic dementia syndrome. However, LATE neuropatholo…
ISEF · 2022
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Increasing pharmaceutical options will help develop diverse individualized healthcare plans (GLIFWC Commission, 1993). Ethnopharmaceutical studies can provide pathways for diversification. Y…
ISEF · 2022
Biomedical and Health Sciences
As our country grows to the top obesity rates, the foods we deem healthy for us could potentially be harmful due to genetic modifications (GM) and chemicals used to create larger tastier foo…
ISEF · 2022
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Purpose: Retinopathy of prematurity (ROP), caused by abnormal retinal vessel growth, is a leading cause of worldwide blindness in children today. A treatment of ROP is to prevent pathologica…