Bay Area BioGENEius Challenge
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Sheryl P. Denker, PhD Student Resources"How to Design a 'Fabulous' Scientific Poster" CSTI, UCSF "How to design a poster" Purdue University The 2011 Bay Area BioGENEius Challenge Twelve outstanding students from local Bay Area high schools competed in the first Bay Area BioGENEius Challenge, held in conjunction with the BayBio Annual Conference on April 10, 2011, in Burlingame, CA. Representing the official sponsor of the Bay Area BioGENEius Challenge, Amgen's Senior VP of Discovery Research, David Lacey, presented awards to three Finalists, who then competed at the National BioGENEius Challenge, held on Saturday, June 25, 2011, directly preceding the BIO International Convention in Washington, D.C. The three 2011 Bay Area BioGENEius Finalists were: Elliott Akama-Garren, a senior at Henry M. Gunn High School in Palo Alto, CA. Akama-Garren's project, From Cancer to Autoimmune Disease: Selective Tyrosine Kinase Inhibition for the Treatment of Multiple Sclerosis, identified a treatment to minimize infections for patients with Multiple Sclerosis Read his abstract here Jennifer Chen, a 12th grader from Lynbrook High School in San Jose, CA. Chen's project, Massively Parallel DNA Sequencing-based Human Identification, intended to reduce the backlog of forensic DNA samples that is impeding the criminal justice system. Read her abstract here Revanth Kosaraju, an 11th grade student from The Harker School in San Jose, CA. Kosaraju's project, titled A Novel Perfusion-Based Protocol For Decellularization of Adipose Tissue on a Bioreactor, sought to develop a novel perfusion-based protocol to decellularize adipose tissue on a bioreactor. Read his abstract here |
Save the date! The Amgen Bay Area BioGENEius Challenge will be held Thursday, April 19, 2012 at the Gladstone Institute in San Francisco. You must either submit your winning abstract from a Spring 2012 Bay Area competition or submit an abstract directly to the Bay Area BioGENEius Challenge. Applications Due March 21, 2012. 
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