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RESEARCH SHOWCASE

 
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POSTER AWARDS

2008 Winners
 
 

GRAND PRIZE

Name: Vivian Gama 342
Award: GRAND PRIZE
Department: Pharmacology
Title: Akt Survival Kinase Pathway Suppresses Bax-mediated Cell Death by Inhibiting Hdm2 dependent Ku70 Ubiquitination


Name: Melissa Latigo 82
Award: GRAND PRIZE
Department: Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Title: A COLLABORATIVE COMMUNITY EFFORT TO STRENGTHEN PEDIATRIC ADHERENCE STRATEGIES TO ANTIRETROVIRAL THERAPY


Name: Bryan Doreian 355
Award: GRAND PRIZE
Dept: Physiology and Biophysics
Title: Myosin-II activation and actin re-organization regulate the mode of chromaffin cell exocytosis


Name: Valerie Braz 225
Award: GRAND PRIZE
Department: Chemistry
Title: Determination of Binding Constants of NNRTIs to HIV-RT


Name: Meghan Smith 442
Award: GRAND PRIZE
Department: Chemical Engineering
Title: Delivery of Proteins from Biphasic Polymeric Tissue Engineering Scaffolds for Retinal Regeneration


Name: Bradley Farnsworth 529
Award: GRAND PRIZE
Department: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Title: Wireless Implantable EMG Sensing Microsystem


 

Name: Anirban Dutta 537
Award: GRAND PRIZE
Department: Biomedical Engineering
Title: Electromyogram-triggered Functional Electrical Stimulation-assisted Walking after Partial Paralysis


Name: Laura Kopplin 268
Award: GRAND PRIZE
Department: Genetics
Title: Genetic Risk Factors of Age-Related Macular Degeneration


Name: Lenette Lu 312
Award: GRAND PRIZE
Department: Molecular Virology
Title: How V proteins from select Paramyxoviruses evade the innate immune response

 

Name: Valerie Toly 143
Award: GRAND PRIZE
Department: Nursing
Title: Families with Children who are Technology Dependent


SPONSOR AWARDS

Name: Dawn Wiese 129
Award: FIRST - CLEVELAND CLINIC AWARD
Department: Medicine
Title: Nutritional Changes in Crohns Disease Patients Treated with Infliximab


Name: Aaron Hadley 547
Award: FIRST - DeFOREST AWARD
Department: Biomedical Engineering, Cleveland VAMC
Title: Percutaneous Connector for Chronic Measurement of EMG with Implanted Electrodes


Name: Samantha Stubblefield-Park 311
Award: FIRST - TAROLLI AWARD
Department: Molecular Biology and Microbiology
Title: Virus Infection and Leukocyte Migration in Organotypic Brain Slices


Name: Harriet Babikako 67
Award: FIRST - UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL AWARD
Department: Department Of Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Title: Antenatal Care Attendance in relation to Low Birth Weight among Women Delivering at Mulago Hospital, Kampala Uganda.


FIRST PRIZE

Name: Matthew Gawryla 481
Award: FIRST PRIZE
Department: Macromolecular Science and Engineering
Title: Visualizing the initial steps in the creation of low density freeze-dried materials


Name: Nicole Kern 202
Award: FIRST PRIZE
Department: Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Title: Biomechanical Joint Design for Gait Adaptation in a Hybrid Orthosis System


Name: Johnnie Chau 267
Award: FIRST PRIZE
Department: Genetics
Title: Sex-lethal is required for asymmetric fate specification of ovarian germ cells.


Name: Yu Cheng 226
Award: FIRST PRIZE
Department: Chemistry
Title: Transporting Lipophilic Drugs in Aqueous Media through PEG-Derivatized Gold Nanoparticles


Name: Jeff McManus 193
Award: FIRST PRIZE
Department: Biology
Title: The Multifunctional Role of a Muscle in Aplysia Feeding


Name: Xin Chen 348
Award: FIRST PRIZE
Department: Physics
Title: A New Analytical Approach to RF Coils at High Frequency: The Spiral Coil Example


Name: Plousia Vassilaras 238
Award: FIRST PRIZE
Department: Chemistry
Title: Silica Aerogels Reinforced with Sheet Silicates


Name: Clara Rhieu 256
Award: FIRST PRIZE
Department: Dental Medicine
Title: An Assessment of Residual Monomer in Endodontic Retrofill Material


Name: Robin Womack 444
Award: FIRST PRIZE
Department: Chemical Engineering
Title: Supercapacitors Using Iridium Oxide and Indium Tin Oxide Electrodes and Nafion Electrolyte


Name: Jane Kim 358
Award: FIRST PRIZE
Department: Physiology and Biophysics
Title: The WT1 Interacting Protein: A molecular messenger between the slit diaphragm and podocyte nucleus


Name: A. Desiree LaBeaud 28
Award: FIRST PRIZE
Department: Pediatrics/Center For Global Health and Diseases
Title: A School-Based Health Promotion Project for Mosquito-Borne Disease Prevention in Children


HONORABLE MENTION

Name: Amy Kuceyeski 308
Award: HONORABLE MENTION
Department: Mathematics
Title: A computational dynamic model of liver metabolism


Name: Michelle Shea 172
Award: HONORABLE MENTION
Department: Psychiatry
Title: The Diagnostic Evolution of Adolescent Substance Dependence: What Came First, the Chicken or the Egg?


Name: Barbara Clemenson 18
Award: HONORABLE MENTION
Department: Organizational Behavior
Title: Authentic Leadership: Do Leaders' Values Impact their Authenticity? An Exploratory Empirical Study


Name: Jennifer Talley 195
Award: HONORABLE MENTION
Department: Biology
Title: Simulations of 3-Dimensional Dynamic Odor Tracking Using Measured Air Flow and Sensor Properties.


Name: James Harris 532
Award: HONORABLE MENTION
Department: Biomedical Engineering
Title: Cortical Response to Polyvinyl Acetate - Tunicate Whisker Polymer Nanocomposite (PVAc-TW)


Name: Dong-Gil Lee 498
Award: HONORABLE MENTION
Department: Biomedical Engineering
Title: Robotic gait simulator for assessing effects of diabetes on midfoot joint pressures


Name: Alicia Jensen 218
Award: HONORABLE MENTION
Department: Biomedical Engineering and Neuroscience
Title: Sinusoidal stimulation mediated elevations in extracellular potassium suppress axonal conduction in vitro


Name: Young Park 223
Award: HONORABLE MENTION
Department: Graduate Program in Cell Biology
Title: CD36 Modulates Macrophage Migration in response to Oxidized Low Density Lipoprotein


Name: Jason Mazzoccoli 439
Award: HONORABLE MENTION
Department: Chemical Engineering
Title: Properties of Polyethylene Glycol Diacrylate Polymer Blends for Tissue Engineering Applications


Name: Penny Neisen Roufs 234
Award: HONORABLE MENTION
Department: Chemistry
Title: Ruthenium-mediated Chemoselective Biaryl Etherifications: Toward an Improved Total Synthesis of Vancomycin Aglycone.


Name: Yu Zhang 242
Award: HONORABLE MENTION
Department: Chemistry
Title: Preparation of 5-(5-Carboxyethyl-1H-pyrazol-1-yl)pentanoic Acid: An Isosteric Ligand for Immunoassay of Endogenous Carboxyethylpyrrole(CEP)


Name: Ami Maru 66
Award: HONORABLE MENTION
Department: Dental Medicine
Title: Epidemiology of Dental Caries of Adults in a Rural Area in India


Name: William Lewinger 204
Award: HONORABLE MENTION
Department: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Title: Irregular Terrain Navigation and Leg Coordination Improve Walking Behavior for Small Legged Robots


Name: Robert Goodloe 78
Award: HONORABLE MENTION
Department: Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Title: Effects of Body Mass Index in a Linkage Analysis of Systemic Lupus Erythematosus


Name: Paul Bakaki 121
Award: HONORABLE MENTION
Department: Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Title: Growth of Early Weaning Infants Born to HIV-1 Infected Ugandan Women


Name: Akshay Kamdar 275
Award: HONORABLE MENTION
Department: Macromolecular Science and Engineering
Title: Creating Gradient Refractive Index (GRIN) Lenses by Nanolayered Polymer Assembly


Name: Alexander Boxerbaum 475
Award: HONORABLE MENTION
Department: Mechanical Engineering
Title: SoftWorm ? A Soft, Biology Inspired Worm-Like Robot


Name: Michael Demko 465
Award: HONORABLE MENTION
Department: Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Title: Thermal Characterization of One-Dimensional Nanostructures Using a Novel Heat Pulse Technique


Name: James Beckmann 118
Award: HONORABLE MENTION
Department: Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine - CWRU
Title: INFLUENCE OF CONTINUOUS LOCAL ANESTHETIC INFUSION ON WOUND OXYGENATION AFTER PROSTATECTOMY


Name: Marjorie Montanez-Wiscovich 344
Award: HONORABLE MENTION
Department: Pharmacology
Title: LMO4 is essential for ErbB2-mediated breast cancer cell proliferation and cell cycle progression


Name: Safaa Hassanein 138
Award: HONORABLE MENTION
Department: Nursing
Title: Pat Hartnett breathing rehabilitation program Improves Respiration and Fatigability in ascites patients


Name: Austin Schenk 329
Award: HONORABLE MENTION
Department: Pathology
Title: CD8 Memory T Cells Infiltrate Cardiac Allografts Within 24 Hours Post-Transplant


Name: Barbara Kuri 359
Award: HONORABLE MENTION
Department: Physiology and Biophysics
Title: Chronic intermittent hypoxia increases catecholamine secretion through a protein kinase-C dependant pathway


Name: Yeheng Wu 280
Award: HONORABLE MENTION
Department: Physics
Title: All-Polymer Lasers


Name: Katherine Jones-Smith 351
Award: HONORABLE MENTION
Department: Physics
Title: The Drip Paintings of Jackson Pollock: Are They Really Fractal?


BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING AWARD

Name: Matthew Schiefer 526
Award: BME AWARD
Department: Biomedical Engineering
Title: Intraoperative Evaluation of the Flat Interface Nerve Electrode for Selective Recruitment of Anterior Thigh Muscles in Humans


Name: Michael Jenkins 487
Award: BME AWARD
Department: Biomedical Engineering
Title: Longitudinal imaging of embryonic hearts using an OCT system with environmental control


Name: Xin Qi 516
Award: BME AWARD
Department: Biomedical Engineering
Title: Morphological Feature Quantification of Colonic Crypt Patterns using Microscope-Integrated OCT


Name: Natalie Brill 549
Award: BME AWARD
Department: Biomedical Engineering
Title: Selective Control of Hand Function in Non-Human Primates with a Flat Interface Nerve Cuff Electrode


Name: Brian Wodlinger 521
Award: BME AWARD
Department: Biomedical Engineering
Title: Localization of Activity in Peripheral Nerves Using Electromagnetic Reciprocity


POST-DOC AWARD

Name: Amany Farag 136
Award: POST-DOC AWARD
Department: Nursing
Title: Nurses? Turnover Intentions: A New Perspective


Name: David Kaawa-Mafigiri 42
Award: POST-DOC AWARD
Department: Anthropology/Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Title: Modifying tuberculosis care-seeking using patients? social network systems in resource-constrained urban Uganda.


2007 Winners

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2006 Winners

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2005 Winners

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2004 Winners

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2003 Winners

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