Bay Area BioGENEius Challenge

Announcing the 2012 Amgen Bay Area BioGENEius Challenge Winners!

FIRST PLACE
$2,000 and one-year family membership to Cal Academy of Sciences
Natalie Ng
Sophomore
Monta Vista High School, Cupertino
Interrogation of Cancer: Development of a Novel Biomarker Discovery Tool to Identify Clinical Signatures from Statistically Deconvoluted Expressions

SECOND PLACE
$1,000 and one-year family membership to Cal Academy of Sciences
Nikhil Buduma
Junior
Bellarmine College Preparatory, San Jose
Pertussis Toxin-Mediated Inhibition of Lymphocyte Trafficking into Lung Tissue: Considerations for an Improved Whooping Cough Vaccine

THIRD PLACE
$500 and one-year family membership to Cal Academy of Sciences
Eric Jang
Senior
Cupertino High School, Cupertino
Massively Parallel Virtual Screening using Facebook

Natalie and Nikhil will advance to the U.S. National BioGENEius Challenge in Boston, June 17. If selected as National winners they will compete the next day in the International BioGENEius Challenge. Should either of them be unable to attend, Eric will step in and compete.

Congratulations to all!

The following thirty-one students competed in the Challenge, heard an inspiring Keynote by Susan Molineaux, PhD; CEO Calithera Biosciences and asked questions during a pre-awards career panel. Panelists included: Dave Lacey, MD (moderator and awards presenter, formerly with Amgen); Alex Muci, PhD, Cytokinetics; Caroline Breitbach, PhD, Jennerex Biotherapeutics; Paul D. Kassner, PhD, Amgen; Sylvia Darr, PhD, AIA, Flad Architects; Stefanie Scheffler, PhD, Target Discovery, Inc.

Primary Contact:

Sheryl P. Denker, PhD
BayBio Institute
Sr. Program Advisor
400 Oyster Point Blvd., Suite 221
South San Francisco, CA 94080
sheryl@baybio.org

Student Resources

"How to Design a 'Fabulous' Scientific Poster" CSTI, UCSF

"How to design a poster" Purdue University