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Discovery Day Past Winners

Discovery Day 2023 Winners

We were excited to be back at the Pennsylvania Convention Center in Center City Philadelphia for our annual day of research! Doctoral and master's students, medical students, MD/PhD students, undergraduates, residents, clinical fellows and postdoctoral trainees from the Drexel University College of Medicine community presented their research. The event featured posters and platform presentations on biomedical science and clinical research topics. Presentations were judged for awards across several categories. Congratulations to all of the presenters and award winners.

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Bondi Fellowship Recipient

  • Xuan Luo

Barry Waterhouse Outstanding Platform Presentation

  • 1st Place – Elijah Davis
    LPS:EB Stimulation Impairs Beta_CoV Replication in Microglia via Induction of IFN-Beta and Upregulation dsRNA Sensors
  • 2nd 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

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

Outstanding Senior Graduate Student Poster

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

Outstanding Postdoctoral Fellows Poster

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

Medical Student Award for Bench Research

  • 1st Place – Ethan Richman
  • 2nd Place (tie) – Bridgid Greed
  • 2nd 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

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

Medical Student Award for Clinical Research and Epidemiology

  • 1st Place (tie) – Ashkon Chamani
  • 1st Place (tie) – Abaykassa Tadesse
  • 3rd 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

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

Outstanding Clinical Resident/Fellow Poster – Research

  • 1st Place – Nikeith Shah

Outstanding Undergraduate Poster

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

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Discovery Day 2022

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Barry Waterhouse Outstanding Platform Presentation

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

Outstanding Junior Graduate Student Poster

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

Outstanding Senior Graduate Student Poster

  • 1st Place – Beth Kern
    Program: Molecular & Cell Biology & Genetics
    Mentor: Kari Lenhart
  • 2nd Place – Christina Curran-Alfaro
    Program: Neuroscience
    Mentor: Jacqueline Barker
  • 3rd 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

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

Medical Student Award for Bench Research

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

Medical Student Award for Clinical Data Analysis

  • 1st Place – Rohan Sehgal
  • 2nd Place – Odette Rosales
  • 3rd 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

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

Outstanding Clinical Resident/Fellow Poster – Research

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

Outstanding Technician Poster

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

Outstanding Undergraduate Poster

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

Outstanding High School Poster

  • 1st 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

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Discovery Day 2021

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Bondi Fellowship Recipient

  • Genevieve Curtis
    Program: Neuroscience
    Mentor: Jessica Barson, PhD

Barry Waterhouse Outstanding Platform Presentation

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

Outstanding Platform Presentation – Medical Student

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

Outstanding Junior Graduate Student Poster

  • 1st Place – Andrew B. Lockhart
    Program: Neuroscience
    Mentor: Simon Danner, PhD
  • 2nd Place – William Stump
    Program: Microbiology & Immunology
    Mentor: James Burns, Jr., PhD
  • 3rd 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

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

Outstanding Postdoctoral Fellows Poster

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

Outstanding Medical Student Poster

  • 1st Place – Vivian Li
    Program: MD
    Mentor: Nam Vo, PhD
  • 2nd Place – LaNiece Carpenter
    Program: MD
    Mentor: Iftikhar Kullo, MD
  • 3rd 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

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

Outstanding Clinical Resident/Fellow Poster – Case Study

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

Outstanding Technician Poster

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

Outstanding Undergraduate Poster

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

Outstanding High School Poster

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

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Discovery Day 2020

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Barry Waterhouse Outstanding Platform Presentation

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

Outstanding Junior Graduate Student Poster

  • 1st Place – Jason Wickman
    Mentor – Seena Ajit
  • 2nd Place – Gina Cusimano
    Mentor – Michele Kutzler
  • 3rd Place (tie) – Emily Esquea
    Mentor – Mauricio Reginao
  • 3rd 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

  • 1st Place – Alexa Cannon
    Mentor – Jonathan Chernoff
  • 2nd Place – Sarah Bennison
    Mentor – Kazuhito Toyo-oka
  • 3rd 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

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

Outstanding Medical Student Poster

  • 1st Place (tie) – Katherine Locke
    Mentor – Michael Lane
  • 1st Place (tie) – Rosanna Kiplagat
    Mentor – Simeon Taylor
  • 3rd 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

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

Outstanding Undergraduate Poster

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

Outstanding High School Poster

  • 1st Place – Armaan Ahmed
    Mentor – Will Dampier

Bondi Fellowship

  • Megan Meuser

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Discovery Day 2019

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Outstanding Medical Student Poster

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

Outstanding Clinical Resident/Fellow Case Study Poster

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

Outstanding Clinical Resident/Fellow Research Poster

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

Outstanding Senior Graduate Student Poster

  • 1st Place – Rebecca A. Holton
    Mentor – Karen Berkowitz
  • 2nd Place – Kritika Hanamshet
    Mentor – Alexander Mazin
  • 3rd 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

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

Outstanding Postdoctoral Fellow Poster

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

Outstanding Technician Poster

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

Outstanding Undergraduate Poster

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

Outstanding High School Poster

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

Outstanding Clinical Platform Presentation

  • 1st Place – Roni Dermo
    Mentor – Adriane Burgess

Barry Waterhouse Outstanding Platform Presentation

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

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Discovery Day 2018

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Outstanding Medical Student Poster

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

Outstanding Clinical Resident/Fellow Case Study Poster

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

Outstanding Clinical Resident/Fellow Research Poster

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

Outstanding Senior Graduate Student Poster

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

Outstanding Junior Graduate Student Poster

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

Outstanding Postdoctoral Fellow Poster

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

Outstanding Technician Poster

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

Barry Waterhouse Outstanding Platform Presentation

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

Outstanding Clinical Platform Presentation

  • 1st Place – Alexandra Forrest

Outstanding Undergraduate Poster

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

Outstanding High School Poster

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

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Discovery Day 2017

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Outstanding Medical Student Poster

  • 1st place – Konstantin Budagyan (Mentor: Malay Haldar)
  • 2nd place – Iris Xu (Mentor: Michael Weingarten)
  • 3rd 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

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

Outstanding Clinical Resident/Fellow Research Poster

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

Outstanding Senior Graduate Student Poster

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

Outstanding Junior Graduate Student Poster

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

Outstanding Postdoctoral Fellow Poster

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

Outstanding Undergraduate Poster

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

Outstanding High School Poster

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

Outstanding Technician Poster

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

Barry Waterhouse Outstanding Platform Presentation

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

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Discovery Day 2016

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Outstanding Medical Student Poster

  • 1st place – Nicholas Bertha (Mentor: Michele Marcolongo)
  • 2nd place – William Valentino (Mentor: Megan Detloff)
  • 3rd 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

  • 1st place – Suresh Mukkamala, Internal Medicine, Easton Hospital (Mentor: Mahesh Krishnamurthy)
  • 2nd 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

  • 1st place – Matthew Meleka, Internal Medicine (Mentor: Patrick Osei-Owusu)
  • 2nd 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

  • 1st place – Kaitlin Farrell, Neuroscience (Mentor: John Houle)
  • 2nd place – Brett Cornell, Neuroscience (Mentor: Kazuhito Toyooka)
  • 3rd 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

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

Outstanding Postdoctoral Fellow Poster

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

Outstanding Undergraduate Poster

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

Barry Waterhouse Outstanding Platform Presentation

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

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Discovery Day 2015

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Award Winners from Discovery Day 2015

Outstanding Platform Presentation

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

Outstanding Senior Graduate Student Poster

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

Outstanding Junior Graduate Student Poster

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

Outstanding Medical Student Poster

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

Outstanding Clinical Resident/Fellow Case Studies Poster

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

Outstanding Clinical Resident/Fellow Research Poster

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

Outstanding Postdoctoral Fellows Poster

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

Outstanding High School Poster

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

Outstanding Undergraduate Poster

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

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Discovery Day 2014

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Outstanding Senior Graduate Platform Presentation

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

Outstanding Senior Graduate Student Poster

  • 1st prize – Anand Rao (Neuroscience) – Mentor: Dr. Peter Baas
  • 2nd prize – Fei Shen (Pharmacology & Physiology)
  • 3rd 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

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

Outstanding Clinical Resident/Fellow Case Studies and Community Projects Poster

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

Outstanding Medical Student Poster

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

Outstanding Clinical Resident/Fellow Research Poster

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

Outstanding Postdoctoral Fellows Poster

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

Outstanding Junior Graduate Student Poster

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

Outstanding High School Poster

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

Outstanding Undergraduate Poster

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

 
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