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Judge Panel
Thank you to all the judges for coming in and holding office hours!
Thank you for Dr. Abdelmonem A. Afifi, whose office hour is a great encouragement for us!
Poster Session Schedule
Session 1: 10:00-11:00 AM: Team 1-12
Session 2: 11:05-12:05 PM: Team 13-24
| No. | Teammates | Track | Output | Project Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Stephanie Li, Richard Yao, Yaochen Li | |||
| 2 | Yuhan Sun, Hanyi Jia | Therapy | Research Proposal | Mitophagy Therapy based on Neural Act88F pathway |
| 4 | Shimona Gupta, Syed Tamim Ahmad, Trinabh Khera Sahni, Smriti Ramesh | Therapy | Research Proposal | Gene therapy and editing as a potential cure for CJD |
| 6 | Kush Agarwal, Aniket Verma, Ishita Ghosh, Autessa Anoosheh | Making a brainwave controlled wheel chair or assist device that uses The Crown (by Neurosity) or NeuroSky (by BrainWave Mobile). It will read brainwaves of the patient with a ML model being trained to detect certain responses to stimuli (such as blinking) and assign actions to it, such as moving a wheelchair, opening door etc. | ||
| 7 | Jaden Long, Holly Zhuang | Mechanism | Software | An interactive demonstration of persistent homology |
| 10 | Christy Feng, Rainy Liu | Therapy | Research Paper | Immunotherapy using immune checkpoint blockade (ICB) drugs |
| 11 | Luka Gogorishvili, Isaac Paulo | BME | Sped up wound healing via modified chloroplasts producing collagen in a bandage form | |
| 17 | Kasra Yousefpour, Angel Fuentes, Ahmed Jafry | Research Proposal | Designing a strategy or device to optimize the accessibility and accuracy of blood pressure monitoring in an effort to reduce the number of people who unknowingly have hypertension. |
| No. | Teammates | Track | Output | Project Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14 | Sonav Agarwal, Minh-Anh Pham, Nishanth Vemuri, Molly Winger | Therapy | Business Proposal | Potential of using Artificial Intelligence Software to determine risk factor for various illnesses based on patient data to make healthcare more accessible and affordable |
| 15 | Hengyuan Wang, Jane Wang, Ruirui Lan, Yuki Huang | Mechanism | Research Proposal | Finding potential treatments for Vascular Dementia through sc-RNAseq |
| 18 | Sabrina, Blair, Yunxi Li | Public Health | Research Paper | Prediction of Suicide Attempts Based on Postpartum Depression Related Symptoms and Machine Learning Approaches |
| 19 | Pradnya Kadam, Anna Moulds, Lynn Gu | Therapy | Research Proposal | Treating Parkinson’s Disease with axolotl neural stem cells. |
| 20 | Audrey Ngai, Eric Lu, Jocelyn Ni | Mechanism | Hardware | Exoskeleton in aiding the mobility of people with lower body disabilities |
| 23 | Seoyeon Kong, Jess Liu, Mia Calvillo | BME | Business Proposal | Advancing Gamma Oscillation Therapy for Early-Stage Alzheimer’s: Innovative Investigative Device |
| 24 | Mateo Umaguing, John Walkiewicz, Jamie Tokumoto | Therapy | Exploring differential effects of gamma stimulation on Alzheimer’s Disease (AD). |
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