Four students honored at INBT research symposium

By Gina Wadas / May 16, 2012

our students were honored for their research efforts at Johns Hopkins Institute for NanoBioTechnology’s sixth annual symposium. A poster session with more than 75 research posters from every division of the university was held in the afternoon and four posters were selected for top honors.

A poster by Yu-Ja Huang, Justin Samorajski, Rachel Kreimer, Denis Wirtz and Peter Searson won first prize, and first author Huang was awarded the $200 gift card from Best Buy. Their poster was entitleThe Influence of Electric Field and Confinement on U-87 Glioblastoma Cells.

Taking second place was Anirudha Sing, Jianan Zhan and Jennifer Elisseeff with the poster Directed Stem Cell Differentiation Using PEG-alpha CD-derived biomaterials. First author Singh claimed the $100 Best Buy card.

A $50 Best Buy card was presented to Spyros Stamatelos who was first author with Eugene Kim, Arvind Pathak and Aleksander Popel on the poster Characterization of the Heterogeneity of Tumor Vasculature using Hemodynamic Modeling and High Resolution Imaging Implications for Drug Delivery.

Honorable mention was given to Jack Andraka, a high school research intern in the lab of Anirban Maitra who worked with Venugopal Chenna. Andraka’s poster, A Novel Paper Sensor for the Detection of Pancreatic Cancer, helped him win a free book from Springer.

The event was held  at the Johns Hopkins medical campus in the Owens Auditorium on May 4 with six faculty expert speakers and approximately 400 people in attendance.

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