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…
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…
AJAS · 2022
Medicine
Glioblastoma is one of the most lethal cancers, associated with a bleak prognosis and no cure. Survival estimates given to patients are often inaccurate, as actual survival can range from mo…
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…
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…
AJAS · 2022
Medicine
Although the use of porous scaffolds in tissue engineering has been relatively successful, there are still many limitations that need to be addressed: low vascularization, low oxygen and nut…
AJAS · 2022
Medicine
Due to asthma, I took prednisone, an oral corticosteroid that reduces inflammation in the airways. During my 7th grade physical, my doctor noticed my growth rate had decreased from the 50th…
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…
Translational Medical Science
Third Award
Peripheral Arterial Disease (PAD) is caused by the blockage or narrowing of arteries supplying the lower extremities regions which affects approximately 10% of the U.S population and is one…
Translational Medical Science
Cancer has a major impact on people around the world and is a large burden on society. Ultraviolet (UV) rays damage DNA, which significantly increases the risk of skin cancer, or melanoma. W…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Neurons, the cells composing the nervous system, are responsible for sending and receiving signals that result in everything from thoughts to movement. Macrophages, a type of cell in the imm…
AJAS · 2022
Medicine
Electrocardiograms, or ECGs, are widely used technologies to record electrical signals from the heart to diagnose patients with various medical conditions. Currently, a shockingly high perce…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Fourth Award
Glioblastoma Multiforme (GBM) is one of the most lethal and aggressive brain cancers in humans. This project investigated the efficacy of a potential therapy for GBM-The Gliatrap. The Gliatr…
Translational Medical Science
Fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT) is a new approach used for the treatment of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) since this condition has been linked to an alteration of the gut microbiot…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
In Vietnam, Ardisia gigantifolia is used as the best medicine to treat and prevent some gastric diseases. Ardisia gigantifolia contains saponin that can inhibit the growth of multiple cancer…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Fourth Award
Glioblastoma is a malignant tumor of the central nervous system distinguished by its intra-tumoral heterogeneity and inevitable recurrence. A longitudinal axis of genomic evolution has been…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Alcohol addiction is a significant societal problem negatively impacting millions of people. Understanding the underlying mechanisms of addiction will aid efforts to provide care and a cure…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Though masks have now become an essential item the application of the now-widespread use of masks is greater than just in the context of protection from COVID-19. Throughout the day, mask-we…
Translational Medical Science
An estimated 93 million adults in the United States are at high risk for serious vision loss, but only half visited an eye doctor in the past year. Prices for eye examinations are drasticall…
Translational Medical Science
Early detection is the key to preventing arrhythmia-related complications. However, developing countries do not have the infrastructure, educated personnel, or devices to screen for arrhythm…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Mental health is a very prevalent issue in the world today. There are many studies on how physical and mental health affect each other. This study's goal was to discover the relationship bet…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) impacts the retina through an accumulation of unresolved oxidative stress. Diabetic Nephropathy and AMD have a strong association, with an odds ratio o…
Translational Medical Science
Second Award
Photosensitive epilepsy (PSE) is a neurological disorder, where seizures are triggered by aberrant flashes or specific spatial configurations of light. After COVID-19, billions of new intern…
Translational Medical Science
Influenza virus causes an estimated 9.0-35.6 million severe illnesses and 850,000 deaths worldwide annually. Aided by its error-prone, open-ended RNA genome, the virus mutates rampantly to e…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
CAR T-cell immunotherapy has proven to be effective in treating relapsed, refractory B-cell malignancies, such as non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma (NHL). Nevertheless, limitations have emerged from IL…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Purpose: Breast cancer has become one of the most common diseases among women worldwide. Using TS/A cells (established metastasizing adenocacinoma cell line from mouse), I studied the effect…
Translational Medical Science
Third Award
Aims: The purpose of this study was to use machine learning algorithms to build an effective, non-invasive and automated pipeline for grading and characterizing gliomas according to WHO 2016…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Parkinson’s Disease (PD) is the second most common neurodegenerative disease, and it plagues millions of people worldwide. PD is characterized by the loss of dopaminergic neurons, associated…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Third Award
Mus musculus (mice) are often used to model the human immune system and to develop healthcare treatments because mouse immunology accurately recapitulates many aspects of the human immune sy…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
West Nile virus (WNV) is the leading mosquito-borne disease in the United States but is not currently preventable through vaccination or treatable by any medications. It has caused over 2,50…