Meg Templeton, Clemson University Victoria Uchman, The Early College at Guilford Mentor: Dr. Barb Nicklas “Circulating T Cell Biomarkers of Cell Senescence in Older Adults with Metabolic Syndrome via Caloric Restriction Intervention”
Ria Tilve, Case Western Reserve University Mentor: Dr. Andrew South “Association of Calcium Metabolism Homeostasis with NAFLD in Pediatric Hypertension”
Sonia Noorani, Timothy Wingate Andrews High School Mentor: Dr. Andrew South “Characteristics of Young Patients Presenting to a Hypertension Clinic”
Phillip Sojka, High Point Central High School Mentor: Dr. Tim Howard “DNA Methylation in Muscle from Middle-Aged and Old Adult Baboons”
Haley Cook, North Carolina State University Mentor: Dr. Tim Howard “Association of Aging and Vertebral Bone DNA Methylation Patterns in Nonhuman Primates”
Aditya Mulabagal, Cornerstone Charter Academy Mentor: Dr. Ellen Quillen “Isocitrate Dehydrogenase Decreases with Age and Gait Speed”
Dymon Blango, East Carolina University Mentor: Dr. Ellen Quillen “VIPR2 Protein Abundance is Not Associated with Radiation Exposure in Bone”
Hana Kamran, Davidson College Warner Vaughan, High Point Central High School Mentor: Dr. Shannon Macauley “Effect of Acute & Chronic Alcohol Exposure on the A/T/N Framework”
Estefania Narvaez, Wake Forest University Avery Underwood, Cornerstone Charter Academy Mentor: Dr. Michael Olivier “Optimization of Plasma Proteomics Using Offline Peptide Fractionation”
Lucien Fernandez, Georgia Institute of Technology Rebekah Kim, The Early College at Guilford Mentor: Dr. Andrew Bishop “Chemical Characterization of E-Cigarette Vapor by Two-Dimensional Gas Chromatography Time- of-Flight Mass Spectrometry”
Katerina Terwelp, Clemson University Chandler Deese, Wesleyan Christian Academy Mentor: Dr. Kim Reeves “Microbiologic Profiling of Acellular Dermal Matrices Used in Implant-Based Breast Reconstruction”
Haoqing (Donald) Wu, Wake Forest University Manvi Gandla, Southwest Guilford High School Mentor: Dr. Tony Reeves “Using Molecular Modeling to Optimize Protein-Small Molecule Interactions”
Aaron Batke, Aquinas College Nicholas Koch, High Point Central High School Mentor: Dr. Matt Quinn “Itaconate is a negative regulator of lipid metabolism during inflammation”
