RAD 2014 Winners

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Congratulations to the 2014 RAD Winners

 

Niadyne Award ($250)
1628 PHYSICIANS PRACTICES AND END OF LIFE Sina Najafi
TECH Fort Worth
–Innovation in Research Award ($300)
1603 ANTIBODY ENCAPSULATION WITHIN POLYMERIC NANOPARTICLES Andrew Gdowski
Smith and Nephew
–1st Place Translational Research Award ($500)
206 MIMICKING INFECTION FOR IMMUNOTHERAPY AGAINST BREAST CANCER-FOOLING THE IMMUNE SYSTEM Rutika Kokate
–2nd Place Translational Research Award ($300)
503 X-RAY FLUORESCENCE FOR TRACKING CELL DIFFERENTIATION Victor Lin
Cardiovascular Research Institute Award Presentation
–1st Place Graduate Student ($300)
304 CONTRIBUTION OF THE MNPO ANGIOTENSIN RECEPTORS TO BRAIN STEM ACTIVITY AND HYPERTENSION Brent Shell
–2nd Place Graduate Student ($200)
310 MYOSIN REGULATORY LIGHT CHAIN A13T MUTATION ASSOCIATED WITH CARDIAC HYPERTROPHY IMPOSES DIFFERENCES ON KINETICS AND SPATIAL DISTRIBUTIONS OF CROSS-BRIDGES IN HEALTHY AND DISEASED VENTRICLES Janhavi Nagwekar
–3rd Place Graduate Student ($200)
316 THE ROLE OF CEREBRAL OXYGENATION ON TOLERANCE TO CENTRAL HYPOVOLEMIA Victoria Kay
Institute for Aging and Alzheimer’s Disease
–Predoctoral Poster Award ($500)
110 THE EFFECT OF LS-1-137, A NOVEL PHENYLACETAMIDE SIGMA 1 RECEPTOR SELECTIVE AGONIST ON SCOPOLAMINE-DEPENDENT COGNITIVE DEFICIT IN C57BL/6J MICE. Maninder Malik
Institute for Cancer Research Awards
–Top Graduate Student Research ($500)
205 MIEN1 PROMOTES CANCER CELL MIGRATION AND INVASION THROUGH ENHANCED
ACTIN DYNAMICS
Marilyne Kpetemey
–Postdoctoral Research Achievement ($500)
212 TETRANDRINE INDUCES ROS-DRIVEN CASPASE-DEPENDENT APOPTOSIS OF PROSTATE
CANCER CELLS VIA MITOCHONDRIAL AND CELL DEATH RECEPTOR PATHWAY
Pankaj Chaudhary
For HER Awards
–Clinical Poster Award ($300)
2100 “IT HAPPENS OUT HERE” – THE VICTIMIZATION EXPERIENCES AND HEALTH CHALLENGES OF WOMEN WHO ARE HOMELESS Gabrianna Saks
–Translational Research Poster Award ($300)
1801 QUANTITATIVE PROTEOMIC INVESTIGATION OF ESTROGENIC ENDOCRINE-DISRUPTING EFFECTS IN THE RAT UTERUS USING SYSTEMS BIOLOGY Fatima Sahyouni
North Texas Eye Institute
–Best Graduate Student Presentation ($300)
910 KNOCKOUT OF CASPASE-7 PROTECTS AGAINST OPTIC NERVE CRUSH-INDUCED RETINAL GANGLION CELL DEATH Shreyasi
Choudhury
Osteopathic Research Center
–Excellence in Research Award ($250)  
1701 ENHANCING PATIENT AND DOCTOR EXPERIENCE IN AN OUTPATIENT OSTEOPATHIC MANIPULATIVE MEDICINE (OMM) CLINIC VIA UTILIZATION OF ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD (EMR) SCRIBES John David Myers
Texas Prevention Institute Awards
–1st Place Poster Presentation ($250)
2105 SURVIVAL SEX ON THE STREETS: RESULTS FROM THE HOMELESS WOMEN’S HEALTH AND
VICTIMIZATION STUDY
Shlesma Chhetri
–2nd Place Poster Presentation ($150)
706 THE ASSOCIATION BETWEEN ACCULTURATION AND RISK FOR TYPE 2 DIABETES IN MEXICAN-AMERICAN CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS José D. Retana
Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine Awards
–1st Place Student Research Award ($500)
1612 DISCOVERY AND DEVELOPMENT OF A BIO-INSPIRED SURGICAL ADHESIVE Jason Hoffman
–2nd Place Student Research Award ($400)
503 X-RAY FLUORESCENCE FOR TRACKING CELL DIFFERENTIATION Victor Lin
–3rd Place Student Research Award ($300)
305 DELAYED NEURONAL DEATH IN SWINE FOLLOWING CARDIAC ARREST AND RESUSCITATION Anh Quynh Nguyen
–1st Place Resident Research Award ($250)
1616 EFFECT OF TIBIAL SLOPE ON FLEXION AND FEMORAL ROLLBACK IN TOTAL KNEE ARTHROPLASTY: A CADAVERIC STUDY Andrew Chambers
–Honors Student Research Award ($250)
911 PROLONGED NMDA STIMULATION INDUCES NEUROPROTECTIVE PATHWAYS AND ENHANCES SURVIVABILITY OF PRIMARY RETINAL GANGLION CELLS Brett Mueller
–Russ Jenkins Memorial Research Award – Surgery Dept ($250)
1612 DISCOVERY AND DEVELOPMENT OF A BIO-INSPIRED SURGICAL ADHESIVE Jason Hoffman
–I.M. Koor Memorial Research Award – OMM Dept ($250)
1701 ENHANCING PATIENT AND DOCTOR EXPERIENCE IN AN OUTPATIENT OSTEOPATHIC MANIPULATIVE MEDICINE (OMM) CLINIC VIA UTILIZATION OF ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD (EMR) SCRIBES John David Myers
–Family Medicine Resident Research Award ($250)
1108 DIFFERENCES IN HEALTH BEHAVIORS BETWEEN MEDICAL SCHOOL FACULTY AND STAFF Stephen Ake
–1st Place Children’s Health Research Award – Pediatrics Dept ($300)
200 CARDIAC FUNCTION IN CHILDHOOD CANCER SURVIVORS TREATED WITH ANTHRACYCLINES: THE ROLE OF ECHOCARDIOGRAPHIC AND ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHIC SCREENING Melodie Minter
–2nd Place Children’s Health Research Award – Pediatrics Dept ($200)
701 CLASSIFICATION OF CHILDREN WITH NEWLY DIAGNOSED DIABETES MELLITUS Sameer Prakash
Medical Student Government Association
–1st Place Research Award ($300)
1603 ANTIBODY ENCAPSULATION WITHIN POLYMERIC NANOPARTICLES Andrew Gdowski
–2nd Place Research Award ($200)
308 HYPERCOAGULATION IN THE POST-ATRIAL FIBRILLATION CATHETER ABLATION PATIENT Shamyal Khan
–3rd Place Research Award ($150)
1502 INDUCTION OF APOPTOSIS VIA TESTOSTERONE IN OXIDATIVELY DAMAGED DOPAMINERGIC CELLS Olivia Simmons
–Best in First Year Award ($150)
2100 “IT HAPPENS OUT HERE” – THE VICTIMIZATION EXPERIENCES AND HEALTH CHALLENGES
OF WOMEN WHO ARE HOMELESS
Gabrianna Saks
Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences Awards
–1st Place Oral Presentation ($500)
915 SIGMA-1 RECEPTOR STIMULATION PROTECTS PURIFIED RETINAL GANGLION CELLS FROM ISCHEMIC INSULT THROUGH THE PHOSPHORYLATION OF EXTRACELLULAR SIGNAL REGULATED KINASE 1/2 Brett Mueller
–1st Place Postdoctoral Poster Award
212 TETRANDRINE INDUCES ROS-DRIVEN CASPASE-DEPENDENT APOPTOSIS OF PROSTATE
CANCER CELLS VIA MITOCHONDRIAL AND CELL DEATH RECEPTOR PATHWAY
Pankaj Chaudhary
–Department of Cell Biology and Immunology 1st Place Oral Presentation ($300)
213 NOVEL USE OF PROLIFERATING CELL NUCLEAR ANTIGEN AS A BIOMARKER OF METASTATIC CANCER Nathan Horton
–Department of Cell Biology and Immunology 1st Place Poster Award ($300)
1202 CD44 EXPRESSION INDUCES CALCIUM INFLUX DECREASING EGR-1 EXPRESSION AND
PROLIFERATION IN ACUTE LYMPHOCYTIC LEUKEMIA CELLS
Ronny R. Racine
–Department of Molecular and Medical Genetics and the Institute of Applied Genetics 1st Place
Genetics ($300)
205 MIEN1 PROMOTES CANCER CELL MIGRATION AND INVASION THROUGH ENHANCED ACTIN DYNAMICS Marilyne Kpetemey
–Department of Molecular and Medical Genetics and the Institute of Applied Genetics 1st
Place Forensics ($300)
1301 ALLELE CHARACTERIZATION OF TEN SHORT TANDEM REPEAT LOCI OF NORTH AMERICAN BEARS (URSIDS) USING NEXT-GENERATION SEQUENCING McKensie Kreutzer
Graduate Student Association Awards
–1st Place Poster ($500)
205 MIEN1 PROMOTES CANCER CELL MIGRATION AND INVASION THROUGH ENHANCED ACTIN
DYNAMICS
Marilyne Kpetemey
–2nd Place Poster ($300)
911 PROLONGED NMDA STIMULATION INDUCES NEUROPROTECTIVE PATHWAYS AND
ENHANCES SURVIVABILITY OF PRIMARY RETINAL GANGLION CELLS
Brett Mueller
–3rd Place Poster ($200)
1202 CD44 EXPRESSION INDUCES CALCIUM INFLUX DECREASING EGR-1 EXPRESSION AND
PROLIFERATION IN ACUTE LYMPHOCYTIC LEUKEMIA CELLS
Ronny R. Racine
School of Public Health
–1st Place Poster Presentation ($500)
1114 MAXIMUM COST OF EFFICIENT WEIGHT-LOSS PROGRAMS FOR OVERWEIGHT AND OBESE POPULATIONS Saehwan Park
–2nd Place Poster Presentation ($350)
1103 ASSOCIATION BETWEEN PERFLUORONONANOIC ACID (PFNA) AND THYROID HORMONE LEVELS IN THE U.S. POPULATION: A CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY OF NHANES DATA, 2007-2008 Lauren R. Hall
–3rd Place Poster Presentation ($200)
2103 ACCEPTABILITY OF SELF-ADMINISTERED PAP SMEARS AMONG SUBSTANCE ABUSING POPULATIONS Saritha Bangara
School of Health Professions
–Best Physical Therapy Poster Presentation ($300)
1624 ISCHEMIA-INDUCED REDUCTION OF SOMATOSENSORY INPUT DECREASES BALANCE; ADDED VIBRATORY NOISE PARTIALLY RESTORES FUNCTION Gemma Rose
Elena and Thomas Yorio Travel Award
CARDIAC FUNCTION IN CHILDHOOD CANCER SURVIVORS TREATED WITH ANTHRACYCLINES: THE ROLE OF ECHOCARDIOGRAPHIC AND ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHIC SCREENING Melodie Minter