Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
The purpose of the research conducted was to optimize treatments for the world’s deadliest disease, Ischemic Heart Disease, by using the most novel tools available: CRISPR and Machine Learni…
Plant Sciences
Fourth Award
Environmental stress factors are increasingly experienced in agricultural systems worldwide, leading to dramatic losses of yield for many farmers. In rice, these suboptimal growth conditions…
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Altered epigenetic landscapes play an integral role in the deregulation of genes. In diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL), tumor cells overexpress BCL6, a transcription factor that normally…
Materials Science
Third Award
As needs for different implant materials in the surgical field rise, bioceramics, specifically bioglass are proving to be more effective than traditional graft materials. Bioceramics are cer…
Biomedical Engineering
Three quarters of cardiovascular disease (CVD) associated deaths occur in resource-poor medical regions. The conventional stethoscope remains the primary tool used to diagnose CVD in these s…
Environmental Engineering
With 780 million people without access to a potable water source, the development of a simple, self-powered, and point-of-use water system is desirable to remove waterborne bacteria, and che…
Environmental Engineering
Access to clean water is a pressing issue worldwide. Large-scale, solar-powered water recovery systems, for desalination of ocean or brackish water, minimize climate change but are prohibiti…
Engineering Mechanics
Second Award
Engineering Goals: The project is attempting to create a hybrid direct ink write 3D printer that utilizes a novel dual-gantry system which combines three extrusion methods; inkjet deposition…
Environmental Engineering
Fourth Award
The project consists in the elaboration of a measurer of radon gas through the conditioning of a Geiger-Müller counter, with the purpose of making a portable, less expensive and more precise…
Engineering Mechanics
3D printers are becoming more accessible, but are still expensive to achieve high precision in a large build volume. As an alternative to traditional Cartesian 3D printers, which have a larg…
Biomedical Engineering
Access to health care in low income communities and developing countries is limited. The purpose of this project was to develop a prototype of a string-based microfluidic device to detect an…
Chemistry
Second Award
Given the importance of protein Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) spectroscopy, the goal was to develop an algorithm to filter and assign signals to accelerate drug discovery. From the 4D NOE…
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Lyme disease, the most prevalent tick-borne illness in the United States, is transmitted through the bite of ticks carrying the bacterium, Borrelia burgdorferi (B. b.). Current serological d…
Embedded Systems
Over 318,000 stroke patients require rehabilitation to regain motor control, but many people around the world cannot afford or do not have access to proper medical care. Furthermore, due to…
Energy: Physical
Third Award
The main issue associated with solar power is its high costs, caused by the expensive tracking systems required for solar energy systems to remain efficient. Furthermore, current solar conce…
Biomedical Engineering
Propofol is the most common anesthetic agent used in the United States, but 60% of the time patients feel pain on injection (Jalota et al. 2011). This pain is hypothesized to be from the fre…
Environmental Engineering
Fourth Award
Plastics are responsible for several damages to the environment. They, annually, cause more than one million birds’ deaths and other 100 thousand marine mammals’ deaths. On the other hand, p…
Energy: Chemical
Fourth Award
The goal of this project is to address two main issues, climate change and the growing demand for energy. As we all know, the biggest reason why we have increased levels of CO2 emissions in…
Translational Medical Science
Third Award
The Zika Virus (ZIKV) has recently been a major cause of concern in many parts of the world. ZIKV infections are linked to fetal and newborn microcephaly, a spectrum of abnormalities in the…
Chemistry
Toxic heavy metal contamination has become an impending global threat due to rapidly increasing diffusion by water from mining settlements and industrial factories. Current sensing methods a…
Biochemistry
Site-specific mutagenesis, also known as site-directed mutagenesis, is the specific and intentional introduction of mutations into a DNA sequence. This technique has many applications in res…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Life of all organisms is largely regulated by protein-protein interactions. In particular, immune system reactions are provided by those interactions. When our immune system fails, scientist…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
This investigation was based on inducing a major hallmark of Type II Diabetes (T2D), insulin resistance (IR), in Drosophila melanogaster (DM) through high Sucrose diets (HSD) and characteriz…
Materials Science
Lithium-ion batteries are one of the most popular secondary batteries in modern society. Therefore, electrode materials are actively developed to increase the efficiency and stability of lit…
Embedded Systems
Most computation in electronic devices is performed using transistor based logic gates. However, due to physical limitations on transistor’s size, it will be impossible to develop the transi…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
The goal of the research is to develop “live” food products with high biological value, which will be used in the diet therapy of people diagnosed with metabolic syndromes. In order to creat…
Energy: Chemical
In this project, sustainable dye sensitized solar cells were optimized by fabrication of a novel organic dye composition which improved the stability and efficiency of the cell. A dye materi…
Translational Medical Science
Mutation detection contributes great significance in the early diagnosis, prognosis and monitoring of cancer. Therefore, the emergence of a highly efficient assay for detecting mutation is g…
Materials Science
China is famous for cooking, but a lot of waste oil is generated in China per year. Traditional separating method cannot isolate oil and water completely, spending much energy and money on i…
Physics and Astronomy
Fourth Award
This study of the Jovian system aims to determine the patterns of deviation magnitude produced from the orbital trajectories of the Galilean satellites based on three different parameters: t…