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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Twenty-five percent of Americans follow a gluten-free diet (Reed, 2020). In the food industry it is important to create products that are both palatable and digestible for these gluten-free…
Translational Medical Science
Second Award
Studies on astronauts in space show that microgravity disrupts the delicate balance of processes required for wound healing, slowing it down or even stopping it completely in space. This pre…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Chronic autoimmune diseases threatening human health have widely spread, yet modern-day pharmaceuticals remain of animal origin and cause the body to develop drug resistance or experience ad…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Second Award
Purpose of this investigation is to develop a new safe and effective therapy for stroke. Nearly a quarter of global deaths each year are caused by blood clotting. High cholesterol and platel…