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CU Students Win at 2008 Midwest Student Biomedical Research Forum

The 2008 Midwest Student Biomedical Research Forum (MSBRF) was held during the first weekend in March. This annual event features research presentations from medical and graduate students from the Midwest. The best presentations are chosen by faculty from Creighton University and the University of Nebraska Medical Center, and the winners go on to present their work at the National Forum in Galveston, Texas.

This year, there were 122 total student presentations. Twenty-nine presentations were made by Creighton students - 13 medical students and 16 graduate students.

The competition was quite competitive with extremely close scoring this year. This resulted in a number of ties in categories. As a result, the Forum presented 20 total awards instead of the typical 16, which usually results from 4 awards in each of 4 categories.

Six Creighton University Students won awards:

	2nd Place Medical Student Oral Presentation Susan Moen “Bone Formation in Mice Expressing Variations in the LRP5 Gene” Mentor is Dr. Diane Cullen		1st Place tie Medical Student Poster Presentation Andrew Manolides “Effects of Glucocorticoid on Bone Structure and Strength by Genotype” Mentors are Drs Diane Cullen and MP Akhter

	2nd Place Medical Student Poster Presentation Jeremiah Fillo “Evaluation of Surgical Antibiotic Prophylaxis at a Children’s Hospital” Mentor is Dr. Archana Chatterjee		4th Place tie Medical Student Poster Presentation Wilson Gonsalves “Effects of Volume and Site of Blood Draw on Blood Culture Results” Mentors are Drs. Michael Moore, Nancy Cornish, Aimin Chen, and Meera Varman

	4th Place tie Graduate Student Poster Presentation Mingyi Yao “Identification of the Alpha-2 Adrenoceptor Subtype Causing Contraction of Rat Lateral Tail Vein” Mentor is Dr. Peter Abel		4th Place tie Graduate Student Poster Presentation Ming Zhang “HMGB1 Promotes Structure-Specific DNA Cleavage by the RAG Proteins via a Nick-Hairpin Mechanism” Mentor is Dr. Patrick Swanson

For more School of Medicine News, please click here. March 12, 2008