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
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
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
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
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
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
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Discovery Day 2019
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
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
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
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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