Biomedical and Health Sciences (inferred)
Lifelong ingestion of glucose has been proven to significantly shorten lifespan in C. elegans, a worm with an evolutionarily conserved insulin signaling pathway, similar to that of humans. T…
Biomedical and Health Sciences (inferred)
The use of antidepressants during pregnancy is estimated at 15% of the pregnant population in the United States. The most widely-prescribed antidepressants for pregnant women are called sele…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
The purpose of the experiment is to test the effects Sulforaphane has on bacterial growth. If Sulforaphane causes ring of inhibition on a bacterial plate, then Sulforaphane does have an effe…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Immunotherapy has shown promise as a treatment approach for patients with hematologic malignancies by engineering one’s immune system to better target a particular antigen. Treatment for hem…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Parkour is the utilization of complex body movements -such as jumps, landings, and vaults- in an urban environment to move from one place to another as efficiently as possible. Much of the s…
Biomedical and Health Sciences (inferred)
E-cigarettes/vapes have become popular in the past decade due partly to marketing as alternatives to traditional cigarettes. Flavor varieties and availability have made them popular and they…
Biomedical and Health Sciences (inferred)
Serotonin is a neurotransmitter that is thought to affect mood in humans. A common class of prescription drugs used to treat symptoms of depression are selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor…
Translational Medical Science
Cardiac mesenchymal stem cells (CMCs) are novel and promising stem cells that have shown significant efficacy in improving heart function in rodents after myocardial infarction (MI) and may…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Current models of speech error monitoring, like the commonly used DIVA model, generally only account for articulation and phonology. They don’t account for semantic monitoring, or the meanin…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the leading cause of death in the world, and the mature human heart has little capacity to regenerate. Recently, induced pluripotent stem cell-derived cardiom…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Aggregation of the protein alpha-synuclein causes symptoms of Parkinson’s Disease in human brains. Treatment of transgenic NL5901 C. elegans with the xenohormetic phytochemical curcumin was…
Translational Medical Science
The long-term goal is to develop an automated, real time, in situ red blood cell (RBC) identification, counting, and RBC distribution width (RDW) calculating system using deep learning. The…
Translational Medical Science
Dry macular degeneration affects nearly 200 million people worldwide. There is no FDA-approved therapy for this disease, which is the leading cause of irreversible blindness among people ove…
Biomedical and Health Sciences (inferred)
It is evident that Cancer-Associated Fibroblasts (CAFs) are key regulators of the immune system to assist the tumor in immune evasion, however, little research has been conducted on the mech…
Biomedical and Health Sciences (inferred)
Currently, over 415 million people worldwide have diabetes and within that population, 90% - 95% have type 2 diabetes; increasingly more children and young adults are also developing it. The…
Translational Medical Science
Stroke is the third leading cause of death in the United States, and this prevalent danger to the global population urges researchers to explore potential preventative measures. The three dr…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Acatalasemia, better known as the lack of the necessary amount of active catalase enzymes in the body, has been linked to diseases such as type 2 diabetes and colorectal cancer. This disease…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
The purpose is to understand mechanisms associated with obesity and utilize natural or pharmaceutical anti-obesity medications on growth of nematodes. The hypothesis is anti-obesity medicati…
Translational Medical Science
The primary focus of this research was to identify tuberculosis proteins recognized by guinea pig antibodies and their origin within the tuberculosis bacterium. Tuberculosis is one of the to…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Tertiary lymphoid structures (TLS) are lymph node-like structures that form at sites of inflammation, and their presence in cancer patients is predictive of a better clinical outcome. One si…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
In this study, the question, “What lifestyle, demographic, and genetic factors increase the risk of contracting the common cold?” was researched. Studies suggest that susceptibility to the c…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
BACKGROUND: According to the International Diabetes Foundation, there are over 415 million people worldwide diagnosed with diabetes [1]. In the United States alone, there are 29.1 million pe…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Influenza infects ~35 million people and causes ~79,000 deaths in the United States annually. Vaccination can be highly effective, but is often a neglected tool for preventing infection. In…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Third Award
The purpose of this experiment was to measure the accuracy of in-stent nanosensors (1, 2, 3, & 4) at varying heart rates (60, 90, & 110 beats per minute) and varying levels of occlusion (70%…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Mitochondria are the primary source of energy within the cell, producing over 90% of ATP and performing essential functions, ranging from maintenance of Ca2+ homeostasis and the regulation o…
Translational Medical Science
This study aimed to detect Alzheimer’s Disease in order to potentially diagnose it at an earlier stage by detecting amyloid plaques through the iris. Amyloid plaques are formed from amyloid…
Translational Medical Science
Third Award
I developed and implemented a Computer Aided Diagnosis (CAD) system that is fully autonomous, non-invasive, cheap, and effectively instantaneous, all while outperforming radiologists and oth…
Translational Medical Science
Fourth Award
Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer-related deaths in the world. The need exists to develop an innovative diagnostic and detection measure to promptly detect the presence and type of…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Type One Diabetes (TID) is a very prevalent disease affecting 1.25 million and 40,000 more patients are diagnosed every year. This happens when auto antibodies “confuse” the pancreas as a fo…
Toxicology
Fourth Award
Objectives With the increase in demand for tissue and organ replacement, bioscaffolds are being used to regenerate cells, serving as a foundation for them to regrow. As the biocompatibility…