BME congratulates our student winners in this year’s GW Research Days. The GW Research Days showcase is an annual event dedicated to highlighting the breadth of research and discovery on issues of major disciplinary, cross-disciplinary and global significance being done at GW through poster sessions, presentations and guest speakers.
Our student winners include:
Undergraduate Presenters
Biomedical Engineering:
1st Place (Tie):
Aidan Murray and Shannon Toole for “Symmetrical Cluster Analysis for Thermographic Breast Cancer Detection”
Research Mentor: Dr. Murray Loew
Tania Singh for “Therapeutic Ultrasound-induced Insulin Release as a Potential Treatment for Type 2 Diabetes”
Research Mentor: Dr. Vesna Zderic
2nd Place:
Alina Kline-Schoder for “Ultrasound-enhanced Ciclopirox Delivery for Treatment of Onychomycosis”
Research Mentor: Dr. Vesna Zderic
Chemistry:
2nd Place:
Nikkita Khattar for “Subcellular Analysis of Peptides in Single Identified Neurons by Mass Spectrometry”
Research Mentor: Dr. Akos Vertes (Chemistry)
Graduate Presenters
Biomedical Engineering:
2nd Place (Tie with Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering student):
Jaclyn Brennan for “HCN4-GCaMP8 Mice Useful for Optically Mapping Conduction System of Heart”
Research Mentor: Dr. Igor Efimov
GWNIC Award for Microscopy Techniques
1st Place (Tie with Institute for Biomedical Sciences student):
Pratik Mistry for “3D Morphological Analysis of Biocytin-injected Hypoglossal Neurons”
Research Mentor: Dr. Anastas Popratiloff (lead research scientist, Nanofabrication and Imaging Center)
Undergraduate Essay Contest Winners: “Reflections on Research and Scholarship”
James Tronolone