Discovery Day Past Winners

Discovery Day 2024 Winners

Presentations were judged for awards across several categories.

Bondi Fellowship Recipient

Katelyn Reeb, Pharmacology & Physiology PhD candidate, mentor Andréia C. K. (Fontana) Mortensen

Barry Waterhouse Outstanding Platform Presentation

1^st Place – Natalie Smolin, Biomedical Science, mentor Catherine von Reyn
Neuronal identity control at the resolution of a single transcription factor isoform
Honorable Mention – Abigail Onufer, Microbiology & Immunology, mentor Alison J. Carey
Influenza virus-induced type I interferons disrupt alveolar epithelial repair and tight junction integrity in the developing lung

Outstanding Junior Graduate Student Poster

1^st Place – Wenqiang Huang, Neuroscience
Anterior cingulate cortex in complex associative learning: monitoring action state and action content
2^nd Place – Dayani Pillai, Neuroscience
3^rd Place – Haley Croke, Biomedical Engineering
Honorable Mention – Jenna Hunt
Honorable Mention – Corinne Marble
Honorable Mention – Gu Gu Nge
Honorable Mention – Eilidh Sidaway

Outstanding Senior Graduate Student Poster

1^st Place – Jenna McGrath, Neuroscience
Deep dorsal glycinergic interneurons that inhibit Shox2 interneurons overlap with molecularly-defined populations involved in sensorimotor function in the spinal cord
2^nd Place – Julia Perhacs, Biological Science
3^rd Place (tie) – Rachel Berman, Molecular & Cell Biology & Genetics
3^rd Place (tie) – Akari Seiner, Biomedical Engineering
Honorable Mention – Bo Lim Lee
Honorable Mention – Anthony Moreno-Sanchez
Honorable Mention – Oluwatofunmi Oteju
Honorable Mention – Alyssa Sanders
Honorable Mention – Riley Young

Outstanding Postdoctoral Fellows Poster

1^st Place – Jill Lawrence, Microbiology & Immunology
2^nd Place – Jason Wickman, Pharmacology & Physiology

Medical Student Award for Bench Research

1^st Place – Jake Fanizza
2^nd Place – Amelia Mantione
3^rd Place – Ryan Baron
Honorable Mention – Julia Danon
Honorable Mention – Trinity Hart
Honorable Mention – Ngoc Hoang
Honorable Mention – Kacie Wheeler

Medical Student Award for Case Studies, Community Service and Educational Studies

1^st Place – Jessica Lewis-Owona
2^nd Place – Fan Tang
3^rd Place – Gabi Ramos
Honorable Mention – Akshat Modi
Honorable Mention – Jessica Lu
Honorable Mention – Josh Maret

Medical Student Award for Clinical Research and Epidemiology

1^st Place (tie) – Wesley Perez Cervantes
1^st Place (tie) – Joseph Rajasekaran
3^rd Place (tie) – Sanya Ailani
3^rd Place (tie) – Lilian Lipovetsky
Honorable Mention – Camellia Edalat
Honorable Mention – Jacob Williams
Honorable Mention – Saahil Adusumilli
Honorable Mention – Grace Axelson

Outstanding Clinical Resident/Fellow Poster – Research

Megan Schlegelmilch

Outstanding Undergraduate Poster

1^st Place – Denney Garrett
2^nd Place – Mangalam Karuppiah

Discovery Day 2023

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Bondi Fellowship Recipient

Xuan Luo

Barry Waterhouse Outstanding Platform Presentation

1^st Place – Elijah Davis
LPS:EB Stimulation Impairs Beta_CoV Replication in Microglia via Induction of IFN-Beta and Upregulation dsRNA Sensors
2^nd Place – Jonathan Richards
Driving Macrophage Infiltration via Intraganglionic CCL2 Injections Alters SCI-Induced Pain and Depressive-like Behavior in LysM-eGFP Mice

Outstanding Junior Graduate Student Poster

1^st Place (tie) – Kalisse Horne
The Role of Timeless in Telomere Maintenance of ALT Cancer Cells
1^st Place (tie) – Akari Seiner
Development and characterization of a geometrically-tunable blood shunt for pediatric heart reconstruction
3^rd Place – Alison Bashford
Honorable Mention – Zahra Aligabi
Honorable Mention – Haley Croke

Outstanding Senior Graduate Student Poster

1^st Place (tie) – Katelyn Reeb
EAATs for stroke: to modulate or not to modulate
1^st Place (tie) – Xiaohuan Sun
Vascularized Brain Assembloids with Enhanced Cellular Complexity Provide Insights into The Cellular Deficits of Tauopathy
3^rd Place – Kyle Yeakle
Honorable Mention – Julie Joseph
Honorable Mention – Abigail Onufer

Outstanding Postdoctoral Fellows Poster

1^st Place – Binod Nepal
2^nd Place – Shravan Tata Ramalingasetty

Medical Student Award for Bench Research

1^st Place – Ethan Richman
2^nd Place (tie) – Bridgid Greed
2^nd Place (tie) – Keerthana Srinivasan
Honorable Mention – Ben Boyarko
Honorable Mention – Jay Desai
Honorable Mention – Tyler Reinoso

Medical Student Award for Clinical Vignettes and Case Studies

1^st Place – Matthew Kent
2^nd Place – Milan Mahesh
Honorable Mention – Madison Dew
Honorable Mention – Anthony Ghobrial
Honorable Mention – Ezaz Hasnain

Medical Student Award for Clinical Research and Epidemiology

1^st Place (tie) – Ashkon Chamani
1^st Place (tie) – Abaykassa Tadesse
3^rd Place – Peter Zaki
Honorable Mention – Allison Atkinson
Honorable Mention – Pooja Balar
Honorable Mention – David Bressler
Honorable Mention – Abigail Higgins
Honorable Mention – Katherine Long-Lijoi
Honorable Mention – Amba Viswanathan

Medical Student Award for Educational Research and Community Service

1^st Place – Ritu Vyas
2^nd Place – Palmer Foran
3^rd Place – Simran Shamith

Outstanding Clinical Resident/Fellow Poster – Research

1^st Place – Nikeith Shah

Outstanding Undergraduate Poster

1^st Place – Nadia Bouras
2^nd Place – Rohan Dasari
3^rd Place – Alexandra Talarico
Honorable Mention – Jessica Merzy

Discovery Day 2022

Barry Waterhouse Outstanding Platform Presentation

1^st Place – Jonathan Snyder
Islet GRK2 regulates hormone secretion and glycemic control by supporting metabolism and GPCR sensitivty
Program: Pharmacology & Physiology
Mentor: Priscila Sato
2^nd Place – Candace Rizzi-Wise
Program: Neuroscience
Mentor: Dong Wang

Outstanding Junior Graduate Student Poster

1^st Place – Kathryn Markey
Program: Molecular & Cell Biology & Genetics
Mentor: Denise Garcia
2^nd Place – Sophie Cohen
Program: Neuroscience
Mentor: Rodrigo Espana
3^rd Place – Breana Channer
Program: Physician Scientist
Mentor: Peter Gaskill

Outstanding Senior Graduate Student Poster

1^st Place – Beth Kern
Program: Molecular & Cell Biology & Genetics
Mentor: Kari Lenhart
2^nd Place – Christina Curran-Alfaro
Program: Neuroscience
Mentor: Jacqueline Barker
3^rd Place – Jason Wickman
Program: Pharmacology & Physiology
Mentor: Seena Ajit
Honorable Mention – Adam Hall
Honorable Mention – Micaela O'Reilly
Honorable Mention – Adam Glass

Outstanding Postdoctoral Fellows Poster

1^st Place – D. Leonardo Garcia-Ramirez
Neurobiology & Anatomy
Mentor: Kimberly Dougherty
2^nd Place – Alexej Dick
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

Medical Student Award for Bench Research

1^st Place – Alexis Price-Moyer
2^nd Place – Aline Hoang
Honorable Mention – Chae Eun
Honorable Mention – Leigh Friedman

Medical Student Award for Clinical Data Analysis

1^st Place – Rohan Sehgal
2^nd Place – Odette Rosales
3^rd Place – Baotram Nguyen
Honorable Mention – Elysia McDonald
Honorable Mention – Yasmine Azzi
Honorable Mention – Danielle Mayblyum
Honorable Mention – Rabia Baig

Medical Student Award for Clinical Topics

1^st Place – James Cross
2^nd Place – Alexa Primavera
3^rd Place – Jacqueline Krieger

Outstanding Clinical Resident/Fellow Poster – Research

1^st Place – Lauren Coffua
Crozer Chester Medical Center, Surgery

Outstanding Technician Poster

1^st Place – Simeon Kofman
Neurobiology & Anatomy
Mentor: Liang Qiang

Outstanding Undergraduate Poster

1^st Place – Nadia Bouras
Mentor: Wen-Jun Gao
2^nd Place – Yashvi Shah

Outstanding High School Poster

1^st Place – Julia Vizza
Pennsylvania Governor's School for the Sciences

Dean’s Distinguished Award for Promoting Justice, Equity, Diversity, Inclusion

Leon McCrea II, MD, MPH, FAAFP, senior associate dean of the Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

Dean’s Distinguished Award for Enhancing Scientific Discovery and Excellence

Peter Baas, PhD, professor in the Department of Neurobiology & Anatomy and director of the graduate program in neuroscience
Michael Lane, PhD, associate professor in the Department of Neurobiology & Anatomy

Dean’s Distinguished Award for Excellence in Clinical-Oriented Graduate Programs

Cheryl Hanau, MD, professor and Richard Shuman, MD, Chair of the Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine
James W. Moore, MHS, PA(ASCP)CM, assistant professor of pathology and laboratory medicine, and director of the Master of Science in Pathologists' Assistant (PathA) program

Dean’s Distinguished Award for Impact and the Common Good

Marla J. Gold, MD, Drexel University’s chief wellness officer and senior vice provost for community health

Discovery Day 2021

Bondi Fellowship Recipient

Genevieve Curtis
Program: Neuroscience
Mentor: Jessica Barson, PhD

Barry Waterhouse Outstanding Platform Presentation

1^st Place – Sarah Bennison
Program: Neuroscience
Mentor: Kazuhito Toyo-oka, PhD
2^nd Place – Julia Farnan
Program: Pharmacology & Physiology
Mentor: Joshua Jackson, PhD

Outstanding Platform Presentation – Medical Student

1^st Place – Caya McFalls
Program: MD
Mentor: Carol Artlett, PhD

Outstanding Junior Graduate Student Poster

1^st Place – Andrew B. Lockhart
Program: Neuroscience
Mentor: Simon Danner, PhD
2^nd Place – William Stump
Program: Microbiology & Immunology
Mentor: James Burns, Jr., PhD
3^rd Place – Breana Channer
Program: MD/PhD
Mentor: Peter Gaskill, PhD
Honorable Mention – Alyssa Sanders
Program: Molecular & Cell Biology & Genetics
Mentor: Mauricio Reginato, PhD

Outstanding Senior Graduate Student Poster

1^st Place – Silvia Fernandes
Program: Neuroscience
Mentor: Shaoping Hou, PhD
2^nd Place – Anh Duc Le
Program: Biological Sciences
Mentor: A. Denise R. Garcia, PhD
3^rd Place – Photis Rotsides
Program: Biochemistry
Mentor: Patrick Loll, PhD
Honorable Mention – Nancy Mack
Program: Neuroscience
Mentor: Wen-Jun Gao, PhD

Outstanding Postdoctoral Fellows Poster

1^st Place – Emanuela Piermarini
Mentor: Liang Qiang, PhD
2^nd Place – D. Leonardo Garcia-Ramirez
Mentor: Kimberly Dougherty, PhD

Outstanding Medical Student Poster

1^st Place – Vivian Li
Program: MD
Mentor: Nam Vo, PhD
2^nd Place – LaNiece Carpenter
Program: MD
Mentor: Iftikhar Kullo, MD
3^rd Place – Benjamin Sherman
Program: MD
Mentor: Michael Lane, PhD
Honorable Mention – Srikar Donepudi
Program: MD
Mentor: Tali Gidalevitz, PhD
Honorable Mention – Luke McCutcheon
Program: MD
Mentor: Joshua Jackson, PhD

Outstanding Clinical Resident/Fellow Poster – Research

1^st Place – Hau Phan
Mentor: Piotr Krecioch, MD
2^nd Place – Sirivan Seng
Mentor: Charles Geller, MD

Outstanding Clinical Resident/Fellow Poster – Case Study

1^st Place – Timothy Johnson
Mentor: Alec Platt, MD
2^nd Place – Michelle Bergal
Mentor: Mark Saks

Outstanding Technician Poster

1^st Place – Wenqiang Huang
Program: Neuroscience
Mentor: Dong Wang, PhD

Outstanding Undergraduate Poster

1^st Place – Alexander Vasserman
Program: BS/MS Neuroengineering
Mentor: Jessica Ausborn, PhD
2^nd Place – Yashvi Shah
Mentor: Michael Lane, PhD

Outstanding High School Poster

1^st Place – Armaan Ahmed
Mentor: Will Dampier, PhD

Discovery Day 2020

Barry Waterhouse Outstanding Platform Presentation

1^st Place – Avantika Ahiya
Mentor – Akhil Vaidya
2^nd Place – Anthony DiNatale
Mentor – Alessandro Fatatis

Outstanding Junior Graduate Student Poster

1^st Place – Jason Wickman
Mentor – Seena Ajit
2^nd Place – Gina Cusimano
Mentor – Michele Kutzler
3^rd Place (tie) – Emily Esquea
Mentor – Mauricio Reginao
3^rd Place (tie) – Prajakta Mehetre
Mentor – Shae Padrick
Honorable Mention – Haizea Alemany
Mentor – Monika Jost
Honorable Mention – Ashley Opalka
Mentor – Dong Wang

Outstanding Senior Graduate Student Poster

1^st Place – Alexa Cannon
Mentor – Jonathan Chernoff
2^nd Place – Sarah Bennison
Mentor – Kazuhito Toyo-oka
3^rd Place – Jill Lawrence
Mentor – Michael Nonnemacher
Honorable Mention – Julia Farnan
Mentor – Joshua Jackson
Honorable Mention – Giang Le Minh
Mentor – Mauricio Reginato

Outstanding Postdoctoral Fellow Poster

1^st Place – Emanuela Piermarini
Mentor – Peter W. Baas
2^nd Place – Andrew Atkins
Mentor – Brian Wigdahl

Outstanding Medical Student Poster

1^st Place (tie) – Katherine Locke
Mentor – Michael Lane
1^st Place (tie) – Rosanna Kiplagat
Mentor – Simeon Taylor
3^rd Place – Nicole Maurer
Mentor – Tina Chen
Honorable Mention – Brett Croen
Mentor – Scott Rodeo
Honorable Mention – Katherine Valles
Mentor – Tejal Brahmbhatt
Honorable Mention – Christopher Nichols
Mentor – Michael Howley
Honorable Mention – Esther Kim
Mentor – Tina Goldstein

Outstanding Clinical Resident/Fellow Poster

1^st Place – Nosayaba Enofe
Mentor – Charles Geller
2^nd Place – Hakan Orbay
Mentor – Charles Geller
3^rd Place – Inga Friederike Strelow
Mentor – Vicki Mahan

Outstanding Undergraduate Poster

1^st Place – Zachary Nawrocki
Mentor – Jane Cavender
2^nd Place – Lorena Melendez
Mentor – Nelida Duran

Outstanding High School Poster

1^st Place – Armaan Ahmed
Mentor – Will Dampier

Bondi Fellowship

Megan Meuser

Discovery Day 2019

Outstanding Medical Student Poster

1^st Place – Christina Obeng
Mentor – Nielufar Varjavand
2^nd Place – Alexander Papa
Mentor – Charles Geller
3^rd Place (tie) – Allen Y. Ganjei
Mentor – M. Razeghinejad
3^rd Place (tie) – Caroline R. Donahue
Mentor – Claire Le Pichon

Outstanding Clinical Resident/Fellow Case Study Poster

1^st Place – Shuchi Shah
2^nd Place – Muhammad Masood Khalid
3^rd Place – Nosayaba Enofe
Mentor – Charles Geller

Outstanding Clinical Resident/Fellow Research Poster

1^st Place – Ritesh Neupane
Mentor – Koroush Khalighi
2^nd Place – Gang Cheng
Mentor – Koroush Khalighi
3^rd Place – Leslie Crosby
Mentor – Richard Pescatore

Outstanding Senior Graduate Student Poster

1^st Place – Rebecca A. Holton
Mentor – Karen Berkowitz
2^nd Place – Kritika Hanamshet
Mentor – Alexander Mazin
3^rd Place – Christopher Schultz
Mentor – Jonathan Brody
Honorable Mention – Philip Yates
Mentor – Liang Qiang
Honorable Mention – Michelle Swift
Mentor – Jane Clifford
Honorable Mention – Jadwiga Bilchak
Mentor – Marie-Pascale Cote

Outstanding Junior Graduate Student Poster

1^st Place – John-Paul Marrazzo
Mentor – Fraser Fleming
2^nd Place – Ipek Eralp
Mentor – Olimpia Meucci
3^rd Place – Xiaonan Liu
Mentor – Kazuhito Toyo-oka

Outstanding Postdoctoral Fellow Poster

1^st Place – Emmanuela Piermarini
Mentor – Liang Qiang
2^nd Place – Victor Rovira
Mentor – Megan Detloff
3^rd Place – D. Leonardo Garcia-Ramirez
Mentor – Kimberly Dougherty

Outstanding Technician Poster

1^st Place – Lauren Buck
Mentor – Jacqueline Barker
2^nd Place – Samantha Warrick
Mentor – Kari Lenhart

Outstanding Undergraduate Poster

1^st Place – Hannah Johnson
Mentor – Peter Gaskill
2^nd Place – Nidhi Patel
Mentor – Tali Gidalevitz
3^rd Place – Ruchi Patel
Mentor – Eishi Noguchi

Outstanding High School Poster

1^st Place – Cyrus P. Elmi
Mentor – Koroush Khalighi

Outstanding Clinical Platform Presentation

1^st Place – Roni Dermo
Mentor – Adriane Burgess

Barry Waterhouse Outstanding Platform Presentation

1^st Place – Margo Randelman
Mentor – Michael Lane
2^nd Place – Alexadner Allen
Mentor – Brian Wigdahl

Discovery Day 2018

Outstanding Medical Student Poster

1^st Place – Ayomide Igun
2^nd Place – Rhea Mathew
3^rd Place – Kyle Samson

Outstanding Clinical Resident/Fellow Case Study Poster

1^st Place – Kevin Junus
2^nd Place – Erin Kelly
3^rd Place – Atul Bali

Outstanding Clinical Resident/Fellow Research Poster

1^st Place – Tess Crouss
2^nd Place – Mark Ramzy
3^rd Place – Nihit Shah

Outstanding Senior Graduate Student Poster

1^st Place – Philip Yates
2^nd Place – Stacia Lewandowski
3^rd Place – Lorela Ciraku
Honorable Mention – Linda Chamberlin

Outstanding Junior Graduate Student Poster

1^st Place – Katherine Locke
2^nd Place – Kristen Buenconsejo
3^rd Place – Ioanna Yiantsos
Honorable Mention – Micaela O'Reilly
Honorable Mention – Sarah Bennison

Outstanding Postdoctoral Fellow Poster

1^st Place – Bo Xing
2^nd Place – Frank Bearoff

Outstanding Technician Poster

1^st Place – Nicholas Stachowski
2^nd Place – Raina Bhavsar

Barry Waterhouse Outstanding Platform Presentation

1^st Place – Eugene Mironets
2^nd Place – Renee Jean-Toussaint

Outstanding Clinical Platform Presentation

1^st Place – Alexandra Forrest

Outstanding Undergraduate Poster

1^st Place – Robert Newman
2^nd Place – Jensine Coudriet
3^rd Place – Ruchi Patel

Outstanding High School Poster

1^st Place – Akshaya Raman
2^nd Place – Adam Zhang
3^rd Place – Milan Mahesh

Discovery Day 2017

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Outstanding Medical Student Poster

1^st place – Konstantin Budagyan (Mentor: Malay Haldar)
2^nd place – Iris Xu (Mentor: Michael Weingarten)
3^rd place – Jonathan Hauptfeld (Mentor: Kenneth Rodgers)
Honorable mention – Orchideh Abar (Mentor: Norman Johanson)
Honorable mention – Benjamin Yeager (Mentor: Christopher Gaskink)

Outstanding Clinical Resident/Fellow Case Study Poster

1^st place – Niveditha Thangaraj (Mentor: Alexander Treblev)
2^nd place – Omar Sheriff (Mentor: Michael Stephen)
3^rd place – William Hawkins (Mentor: Thomas Nordone)

Outstanding Clinical Resident/Fellow Research Poster

1^st place – Yehuda Kerbel (Mentor: Mary Mulcahey)
2^nd place – Daria Waite (Mentor: Theodore Corbin)
3^rd place – Rina Allawh (Mentor: Herbert Allen)

Outstanding Senior Graduate Student Poster

1^st place – Kelly Donovan (Mentor: Jane Clifford)
2^nd place – Jasmine Peake (Mentor: Eishi Noguchi)
3^rd place – Eugene Mironets (Mentor: Veronica Tom)

Outstanding Junior Graduate Student Poster

1^st place – Ashley Karnay (Mentor: Felice Elefant)
2^nd place – Courtney Fesko (Mentor: Joris Beld)
3^rd place – Michael Owens (Mentor: Srinivas Somarowthu)

Outstanding Postdoctoral Fellow Poster

1^st place – Bo Xing (Mentor: Wen-Jun Gao)
2^nd place tie- Frank Bearoff (Mentor: Elizabeth Blankenhorn)
2^nd place tie- Sudipta Das (Mentor: Akhil B. Vaidya)

Outstanding Undergraduate Poster

1^st place – Ayush Parikh (Mentor: Seena Ajit)
2^nd place – Ann Haftl (Mentor: Irwin Chaiken)
Honorable mention – Nicolas Fox (Mentor: Tara Davis)
Honorable mention – Sneha Kamarajugadda (Mentor: Huijuan Hu)

Outstanding High School Poster

1^st place – Milan Mahesh (Mentor: Koroush Khalighi)

Outstanding Technician Poster

1^st place – Ellen Gingrich (Mentor: Denise Garcia)

Barry Waterhouse Outstanding Platform Presentation

1^st place – Lindsay Festa (Mentor: Olimpia Meucci)
2^nd place – Zachary Bacigalupa (Mentor: Mauricio Reginato)
Honorable mention – Andrew Matamoros (Mentor: Peter Baas)

Discovery Day 2016

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Outstanding Medical Student Poster

1^st place – Nicholas Bertha (Mentor: Michele Marcolongo)
2^nd place – William Valentino (Mentor: Megan Detloff)
3^rd place – Alexander Valiga (Mentor: Ashani Weeraratna)
Honorable mention – Konstantin Budagyan (Mentor: Matthew Weitzman)
Honorable mention – Aaron Wengrofsky (Mentor: Harpreet Singh)

Outstanding Clinical Resident/Fellow Case Study Poster

1^st place – Suresh Mukkamala, Internal Medicine, Easton Hospital (Mentor: Mahesh Krishnamurthy)
2^nd place – Mariola Vazquez, Internal Medicine (Mentor: Maneesh Jain)
Honorable mention – Scott Steven, Interal Medicine (Mentor: Barbara Simon)
Honorable mention – Erik Harriman, Surgery (Mentor: Thomas Nordone)

Outstanding Clinical Resident/Fellow Research Poster

1^st place – Matthew Meleka, Internal Medicine (Mentor: Patrick Osei-Owusu)
2^nd place – Mark Collin, Emergency Medicine, York Hospital (Mentor: Brent Becker)
Honorable mention – Shontreal Cooper, Ob/Gyn (Mentor: Patrick Osei-Owusu)
Honorable mention – Benjamin Bluen, Internal Medicine (Mentor: Dong Huen Lee)

Outstanding Senior Graduate Student Poster

1^st place – Kaitlin Farrell, Neuroscience (Mentor: John Houle)
2^nd place – Brett Cornell, Neuroscience (Mentor: Kazuhito Toyooka)
3^rd place – Lindsay Festa, Pharmacology & Physiology (Mentor: Olimpia Meucci)
Honorable mention – Kritika Hanamshet, Molecular & Cell Biology & Genetics (Mentor: Alexander Mazin)
Honorable mention – Pablo Huang Zhang, Biomedical Engineering (Mentor: J. Yasha Kresh)

Outstanding Junior Graduate Student Poster

1^st place – Ankita Patil, Neuroscience (Mentor: Peter Baas)
2^nd place – Alexander Allen, Microbiology & Immunology (Mentor: Brian Wigdahl)
3^rd place – Genie Han, Medical Science (Mentor: Wen-Jun Gao)
Honorable mention – Yannong Dou, Pharmacology & Physiology (Mentor: Huijuan Hu)

Outstanding Postdoctoral Fellow Poster

1^st place – Devasena Ponnalagu, Pharmacology & Physiology (Mentor: Harpreet Singh)
2^nd place – Virginie Tardif, Infectious Diseases & HIV Medicine (Mentor: Elias El Haddad)
Honorable mention – Bo Xing, Neurobiology & Anatomy (Mentor: Wen-Jun Gao)

Outstanding Undergraduate Poster

1^st place – Ayush Parikh, Biological Sciences (Mentor: Seena Ajit)
2^nd place – Sydney Wilson, Biological Sciences (Mentor: Eishi Noguchi)
3^rd place – Jordyn Karliner, Ursinus College (Mentor: Michael Lane)

Barry Waterhouse Outstanding Platform Presentation

1^st place – Brielle Ferguson, Neuroscience (Mentor: Wen-Jun Gao)
2^nd place – Patrick Williams, Molecular & Cell Biology & Genetics (Mentor: Todd Strochlic)

Discovery Day 2015

Award Winners from Discovery Day 2015

Outstanding Platform Presentation

1^st place – Melissa Manners (Pharmacology & Physiology)
2^nd place – Nehal Solanki (Microbiology & Immunology)

Outstanding Senior Graduate Student Poster

1^st place – Tim Beck (MD/PhD, Molecular & Cell Biology & Genetics)
2^nd place – Patrick Williams (Molecular & Cell Biology & Genetics)
3^rd place – Tim Nacarelli (Molecular & Cell Biology & Genetics)

Outstanding Junior Graduate Student Poster

1^st place – Margaret O'Conner (MD/PhD)
2^nd place – Eugene Mironets (Neuroscience)
3^rd place – Kaitlin Farrell (MD/PhD, Neuroscience)
Honorable mention – Ogan Kumova (Microbiology & Immunology)

Outstanding Medical Student Poster

1^st place – Shravan Savant
2^nd place – Kavita Goyal
3^rd place – Hyein Jeon

Outstanding Clinical Resident/Fellow Case Studies Poster

1^st place – Raafia Memon (Medicine, Easton Hospital)
2^nd place – Krystine Carter (Drexel University College of Medicine)
Honorable mention – Sabrina Islam

Outstanding Clinical Resident/Fellow Research Poster

1^st place – Mohammad Farooq (Medicine, Easton Hospital)
2^nd place – Sunny Petigara (Medicine, Easton Hospital)

Outstanding Postdoctoral Fellows Poster

1^st place – Frances Munoz (Pharmacology & Physiology)
2^nd place – Mariana Gadaleta (Biochemistry and Molecular Biology)
3^rd place – Sudipta Das (Microbiology & Immunology)

Outstanding High School Poster

1^st place – Rachana Mudipalli (Downingtown STEM Academy)

Outstanding Undergraduate Poster

1^st place – Jane Tong (Drexel University)
2^nd place – Rushi Thanawala (Drexel University)
3^rd place – Akshay Patel (Villanova University)

Discovery Day 2014

Outstanding Senior Graduate Platform Presentation

1^st prize – Matthew Jennis (Molecular and Cell Biology and Genetics) – Mentor: Maureen Murphy, PhD
2^nd prize – Kristina Shahriari (Pharmacology and Physiology) – Mentor: Alessandro Fatatis, MD, PhD
3^rd prize – Lanfranco Leo (Neuroscience) – Mentor: Peter Baas, PhD

Outstanding Senior Graduate Student Poster

1^st prize – Anand Rao (Neuroscience) – Mentor: Dr. Peter Baas
2^nd prize – Fei Shen (Pharmacology & Physiology)
3^rd prize – Mariana Gadaleta (Molecular & Cell Biology & Genetics)
Honorable mentions – Tim Beck (MD/PhD – Molecular & Cell Biology & Genetics) Neha Solanki-Patel (Microbiology & Immunology)

Outstanding Technician Poster

1^st prize – Katherine Kercher (Microbiology and Immunology) – Mentor: Dr. Brian Wigdahl
2^nd prize – Julien Bouyer (Neurobiology and Anatomy)
3^rd prize – Matthew Stout (Pharmacology and Physiology)
Honorable mention – Adam Clemens (Microbiology and Immunology)

Outstanding Clinical Resident/Fellow Case Studies and Community Projects Poster

1^st prize – Mitchell Storace (Radiologic Sciences) – Mentor: Dr. Brian Bianco
2^nd prize – Elnaz Rakhshan (Medicine, Easton Hospital)
3^rd prize – Jason Shames (Radiologic Sciences)

Outstanding Medical Student Poster

1^st prize – Cory Heal (Radiation Oncology) – Mentor: Dr. William Ding
2^nd prize – Ronald Paranal (Drexel University College of Medicine)
3^rd prize – Daniel Huettner (Microbiology and Immunology)

Outstanding Clinical Resident/Fellow Research Poster

1^st prize – Martin Miguel Amor (Medicine, Monmouth Medical Center) – Mentor: Dr. Neil Holland
2^nd prize – Nishi Patel (Medicine)
3^rd prize – Shilpa Chaudhari (Medicine)

Outstanding Postdoctoral Fellows Poster

1^st prize – Mariana Bernui (Microbiology & Immunology) – Mentor: Dr. Michele Kutzler
2^nd prize – Fang Guo (Microbiology & Immunology, Institute for Biotechnology and Virology)
Honorable mention – Devasena Ponnalagu

Outstanding Junior Graduate Student Poster

1^st prize (tie) – Jennifer Ross (Pharmacology & Physiology) – Mentor: Dr. Elisabeth Van Bockstaele
Lindsay Festa (Pharmacology & Physiology) – Mentor: Dr. Olimpia Meucci
3^rd prize – Charles Wang (MD/PhD – Biochemistry)
Honorable mention – R. Vivian Allahyari (Biology)

Outstanding High School Poster

1^st prize – Emily Cheng (Methacton High School) – Mentor: Dr. Ying-Hsiu Su
2^nd prize – Evan Trauger (Christopher Dock Mennonite High School)

Outstanding Undergraduate Poster

1^st prize – Mary-Katharine McMullen (University of Pennsylvania) – Mentor: Dr. Megan Detloff
2^nd prize – Swetha Chandrasekar (Drexel University College of Arts and Sciences)
3^rd prize – Shannon Bessonett (Elizabethtown College)