Translational Medical Science
Glioblastoma is the most frequent and the most lethal primary malignant brain tumor. Treatment with temozolomide for the MGMT methylated subgroup may increase median survival time two folds.…
Toxicology
Honorable_mention Award
The reason we did this project was to see if the Carmel River had dangerous amounts of herbicides in it. Our research questions are: 1) Are pesticides detectable in the Carmel River? 2) Will…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Chemotherapy resistance is a pressing issue in treating cancer, and despite decades of research, it is still incompletely understood. Cancer cells can be inherently resistant or develop resi…
Translational Medical Science
On July 23, 2022, the World Health Organization declared the global monkeypox outbreak a Public Health Emergency of International Concern. It is diagnosed through Polymerase Chain Reaction t…
Translational Medical Science
Congestive Heart Failure (CHF) is a chronic, progressive condition that limits the heart’s ability to pump adequate volumes of blood to the vital organs, accounting for 1 in 4 deaths in the…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Background: Chronic kidney disease is a progressive and irreversible loss of kidney function. Panama, according to CSS statistics, there are more than 2,200 patients for the year 2020 in dia…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Antimicrobial Peptide(AMP) MicrocinJ25 (MccJ25) is naturally secreted by E.coli & is efficient anti-bacterial. MccJ25 reduces intestinal inflammation & promotes healthy gut-bacteria. Unlike…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Congenital cataracts are present in 20,000-40,000 births each year and are among the leading causes of childhood blindness. Surgery is currently the only available treatment due to a poor un…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Chemotherapy is the primary form of treatment for the majority of cancer patients, using cytotoxic drugs to suppress tumor growth. However, cancer cells, by evolving through rapid generation…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Cancer cell migration is an important part of the growth of secondary tumors as they invade local tissue, thus finding safe interventions to cancer cell migration can be an important tool to…
Translational Medical Science
Traditionally, in neurosurgery planning cortical language areas are identified by having individuals actively perform a language task while the magnetic resonance image (MRI) scan is acquire…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Fourth Award
??Alzheimer’s disease is an irreversible and fatal form of dementia caused by the degeneration of neurons in the brain. This disorder is characterized by the aggregation of tau protein, the…
Toxicology
Fourth Award
Objectives My objective was to see if the addition of a glyphosate-based herbicide, an endocrine disruptor, could decrease the gonad mass, this would show that the mussel has been feminized.…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Over the last century, there has been an unparalleled focus on genomic techniques in cancer research which has resulted in a neglected understanding of cancer metabolics. Despite being disco…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Cardiovascular diseases in minority populations are grossly misunderstood and studies show clear data exemplifying disparities in screenings. Studies largely focus on exhaustively researched…
Translational Medical Science
Fucoidans are sulfated polysaccharides that provide structure in brown seaweeds. Medical research has found a substantial amount of evidence for the investigation into fucoidan as an antican…
Translational Medical Science
Second Award
Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a physical disruption of brain tissue followed by a cascade of inflammatory responses. The responses result in a transient disruption of the blood-brain barri…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Third Award
Myocarditis is a disease in which there is inflammation located within the muscle tissue of the heart, or myocardium. It is characterized by infiltration of mononuclear inflammatory cells in…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD), a disorder that affects brain development and can cause problems with social interaction and communication, is thought to be caused by both genetic and non-ge…
Toxicology
Third Award
Colon cancer is the third leading cause of cancer related deaths with over 940,000 deaths reported worldwide in 2020. The overexpression of certain membrane bound proteins, such as Sodium-de…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Fourth Award
Glioblastoma Multiforme (GBM) is not only a ruthless cancer but also the most common form of cancer diagnosed in adults. Despite currently available treatment strategies and emerging therapi…
Translational Medical Science
Hypertension is a significant risk factor for cardiovascular diseases, affecting 1.3 billion people and attributing to 17.9 million deaths worldwide per year, making it the leading preventab…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Poor balance in the elderly has caused many falls, serious injuries, and deaths over the years. To reduce the incidence of falls, a systematic assessment was done on the elderly population i…
Translational Medical Science
Emerging evidence demonstrates that COVID-19 can lead to myocarditis and may induce malignant arrhythmias associated with sudden cardiac death (SCD) during high intensity exercise. The objec…
Translational Medical Science
According to the United Nations, about 1 in 6 of the world’s population suffers from neurological conditions. Microglia within the brain, aggravated by amyloidosis, serve as reactive oxidati…
Translational Medical Science
MCT oil was used to ease the created addiction.The experimental setup involved three groups, a control, nicotine, and MCT + nicotine. Over a week, both nicotine groups were treated once a da…
Translational Medical Science
First Award
One-billion individuals, one in six, suffer from neurological disorders. Encephalomyelitis disseminata (MS) is primarily an immune-mediated disease of the central nervous system (CNS) where…
Translational Medical Science
Antioxidants can be used to help prevent neurodegeneration and reduce reactive oxygen species (ROS) associated with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) in a C.elegans model. The ROS can tr…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disease believed to be caused by the abnormal breakdown of proteins creating toxic Aß plaques. Copper is naturally occurring in th…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Immune Checkpoint (ICP) system is recognized as a pathway to preventing the immune system from attacking cancer cells and thus allowing cancer cell survival. Several transcription factors ar…