NAVS Humane Science Award Recipients at Intel ISEF
2017
Andrea Teo, first prize: $5000
Translational Medical Science: Developing a High-throughput Platform for Drug Toxicity Screening
Katherine Miles, second prize: $2000
Cellular and Molecular Biology: Autism and Genetics: Understanding the Role of AUTS2 in the Pathology of Autism Spectrum Disorder
Vishakk Rajendran, Meena Ravishankar, Jeremy Wang, third prize: $1000
Animal Sciences: Developing a Novel 3D-Printed Solution to Aid Healing Fractured Wing Bones of Wild Birds
2016
Ralph Lawton, first prize: $5000
Biomedical and Health Sciences: The Smoking Gun: Toxicological Effects of Electronic Cigarettes on Epithelial Cells using Air Liquid Interface, Year Two
Meghana Rao, second prize: $2000
Biochemistry: The Differential Effect of Opioids on Breast Cancer Cell Pro-Survival and Pro-Apoptotic Pathways
Rama Balasubramaniam, third prize: $1000
Biomedical Engineering: The Mechanisms of Glioblastoma Migration in a Bioengineered 3D Brain Model
2015
Anisha Valluri, first prize: $5000
Biomedical and Health Sciences: 3D Tumor Model for Testing Anticancer Drugs
Ralph Lawton, second prize: $2000
Biomedical and Health Sciences: Don’t be Led Ashtray: Toxicological Effects of Electronic Cigarettes on Inflammation and Lung Cell Viability with Comparison by Brand, Flavor, and Generation
Karina Schmidt, third prize: $1000
Biomedical and Health Sciences: Diabetic Stem Cell Derived Cardiomyocytes in Disease Modeling and Therapeutic Discovery
2014
Sara Sakowitz, first prize: $5000
A Novel Approach for Metastatic Breast Cancer Therapy: Pharmacological Inhibition of EZH2 Histone Methyl Transferase Activity Suppresses Cancer Stem Cells and Induces Epithelial Phenotype
Elizabeth Sobolik, second prize: $2000
Cellular and Molecular Biology: Generating iPSCs [induced pluripotent stem cells] from Human Adipocytes for Differentiation into Nociceptive Neurons
Golda Shaw, third prize: $1000
Medicine and Health Sciences: Development of a Novel Blood-Based Diagnostic for Canine Lymphosarcoma
2013
Savannah Tobin, first prize: $5000
Analysis of Fel d 1 Allergen Transcripts in Felis catus Saliva using Reverse Transcription Quantitative Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-qPCR)
Samantha Marie Marquez, second prize: $2000
Advances in the Bottom-Up Assembly of Multicellular Architectures From Neuroengineering to Biodefense
Kelsey Mackenzie Barter, third prize: $1000
Targeting Survivin as a Potential Cancer Therapeutic
2012
David Liu, first prize: $5000
Synthetic Nanoparticle-Based Nanozymes for Pancreatic Cancer Therapy
Raghav Tripathi, second prize: $2000
Toward the Cure: Abnormal Protein Interactions between Amyloid Beta and Tau as a Therapeutic Target for Alzheimer’s Disease
Samantha Marquez, third prize: $1000
A New Frontier in Biomedical Engineering: Ex-situ Bioengineering of Hepato- & Neuro-Celloidosomes
2011
Jayanth Krishman , first prize: $5000
Regulatory Signatures of Cancer Cell Lines Inferred from Gene Expression Data
Abraham Killanin and Evan Schneider, second prize (shared between team members): $2000
The Effects of Gold and Platinum Nanoparticles on Dental Pulp Stem Cell Growth and Differentiation
Neal Pathak, third prize, $1000
Polyfunctionalized Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes as Novel Scaffolds for Multimodal Tumor-Targeted Therapy and Biological Imaging
2010
Philip Schlenoff, first prize: $5000
Antibody-Coated Magnetic Nanoparticles: Targeting and Treating Cancer in a Dynamic Environment
Vivian Leung, second prize: $2000
Morphological and Functional Characteristics of Lower Female Genital Tract Epithelial Cell Cultures in Different Growth Conditions
Athman Adiseshan, third prize: $1000
Ethology of Friendship among Adult Male Bonnet Macaques (Macaca radiata) at Arunachala Hill, India
2009
Jane Suh, first prize: $5000
Microscale Platform for Determining Human Pluripotent Stem Cell Fate
Monica Chowdhury, second prize: $2000
Neural Network Modeling—An Innovative Time and Cost Efficient Approach for Anti-Cancer Drug Development
Jennifer Draiss, tied for third prize: $1000
Facial Expression and Its Relationship to Gesture in Western Lowland Gorillas
Alexander Chernyakhovsky, tied for third prize: $1000
Designing Heterologous Influenza Vaccine for New Pandemic Pathogen Emerging in Humans Infected with Avian Influenza
2008
Shivani Sud, first prize: $5000
Genomic Strategy to Refine Prognosis and Treatment of Early Stage Colon Cancer
Yale Stern Michaels, second prize: $2000
A Novel Smart shRNA System for Disease Diagnosis and Therapy
Sushma Kola, third prize: $1000
Overexpression of Aquaporin-1 in Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer
2007
Carol Yoon Joo Suh, first prize: $5000
Integrated Microfluidic Device for the Development of Human Embryonic
Stem Cells
Dayan (Jack) Li, second prize: $2000
Thrombospondin-1 Switches Nitric Oxide Function from Inhibitory to Stimulatory for Gene Expression of Human Tumor Endothelial Cell Markers
Alex Ramek and Adam Fields, third prize: $1000
Detecting Cancer in Living Tissue with Single-Cell Precision
2006
Charles Dyer, first prize: $5000
The Function of a Novel Apoptosis Regulating Protein, XAF-1C, in Breast Cancer Research.
Anneke Schwob, second prize: $2000
A Novel Role for Telomerase in Stem Cell Differentiation.
Anelise do Santos Klein, third prize: $1000
Animal Caring—An Educational Proposal.
2005
Alan Ho-Yin Gee, first prize: $5000
Metastable Conformations in the Secondary Structure of the Poly(A) Signal in Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type-1
Jijun Chow, second prize: $2000
Use of Homology Modeling and Molecular Docking to Map Retinoid Binding Sites on Protein Kinase C
Jeff Silpe, third prize:$1000
Evaluations of MMP and TIMP Expression in Human Pediatric Brian Tumors
2004
Shamita Chaudhuri, first prize: $5000
Microarray Analysis Reveals Glucocorticoid-regulated Survival Genes that Are Associated with Inhibition of Apoptosis in Breast Epithelial Cells
Lascelles Ewen Lyn-Cook, second prize: $2000
Indole-3-Carbinol Protects Normal Neuronal Cells (HCN-1) and Kills Brain Cancer Cells (SK-N) by Downregulating Clyclooxygenase-2 and Nuclear Factor KAPPA B: In vitro Analyses
Elena Leah Glassman, third prize: $1000
Brain-Computer Interface for the Muscularly Disabled
2003
Samantha Feingold, first prize: $5,000
Histone Protein Promotion with Trichostatin A on Gene Expression of Human Bladder and Prostrate Cancer Cells
Anna-Katrina Shedletsky, second prize: $2,000
Disease Propagation Through Connective Paths: Application of the Small World Theory to Epidemic Modelling
Nicholas Semenkovich, third prize: $1,000
Using Bioinformatics to Analyze the Effects of Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms on Disease
2002
Megan Hamilton, first prize: $5,000
Can Metabolite Standards Be Produced from Human Hepatic Cells for Use in Forensic Toxicology?
NAVS Humane Science Award Recipients at the Illinois Junior Academy of Science State Fair
2006
Julian Terrell Otis, first prize: $500
The Effects of Opioids on Chemokine Production
Andrew Bevis, second prize: $200
Raf-Kinase Inhibitor Protein Induces Cell Proliferation in PC-3 Prostate CancerCells
Mariana Aviles, third prize: $100
The Effects of TGF-Beta on SZP Production
2007
Allen Jiang, first prize: $500
The Role of PAK on Cx43 Dephosphorylation
Ekaterina Khramtsova, second prize: $200
Proteasome Inhibitors in Cancer
Katie Rosman and Becky Daniel, third prize (shared between team members): $100
Man’s Best Friend? The Search for MRSA in Dog Owners and Their Dogs
2008
Jimmy Liu and Hyunjii Cho, first prize: $500 each
The Detection of Differences between Normal and Cancerous Stem Cells
John Mussman, second prize: $200
Computer-Aided Diagnosis of Gastric Cancer
Sushma Kola, third prize: $100
Overexpression of Aquaporin-1 in Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer
2010
Qadija Qadri, first prize: $500
EphB4 Amplification: Effect on Tumor Proteins
Jonathan Dean Loucks, second prize: $200
Predicting Secondary Protein Structure: An Analysis of Ab initio and Homology Based Modeling
Robin David and Julia Lechowicz, third prize: $100 each
p53 as a Prognostic Tool in Determining the Aggressiveness of Cancer
2011
Areen Pitaktong, first prize: $500
The Role of MAN2A2 Expression in Glioma Proliferation and Invasivity
Alicia Walker, second prize: $200
The Epigenetic Role of RANKL in Osteoporosis
Damiana Andonova, third prize: $100
The Effect of Hormone Therapies on the Apoptosis of Ovarian Cancer Cells