Past BioGENEius Winners

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2024 BioGENEius Winner: Yifan Ding (Boston, MA)

Engineering of a Compact Gene Switch for Temporal Control of CRISPR Gene Editing

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2023 BioGENEius Winner: Anshi Paul (Hershey, PA)

Wearable Memory Assistive Device for Dementia and Alzheimer’s Patients Using Machine Learning Facial Recognition

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2022 BioGENEius WInner: Okezue Bell (Easton, PA)

A Novel Anthropomorphic Myoprosthesis for Transradial Amputees

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2021 Digital BioGENEius Winner: Meena Ambati

Student Maya Ramachandran presents her research on greywater recycling.

2020 Digital BioGENEius Winner: Shreya Ramachandran

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2019 BioGENEius Winner: Neil Deshmukh (Bethlehem, PA)

An Adaptive, Low-Cost Device for Offline Medical Analysis Utilizing 

Neural Networks with Reinforcement Learning Optimization

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2018 BioGENEius Winner: Sajeev Kohli (Waterloo, ON)

Recruiting Endogenous Proteins for Site-Specific Transport: 

A Novel Workflow for Gene Carrier Design

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2017 BioGENEius Winner: Erin Smith

The Development of a Low-cost, Remote, and Non-Invasive Early Detection System 

for Parkinson's Disease Using Differences in Spontaneous Facial Expression

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2016 BioGENEius Winners: Utkarsh Tandon (Cupertino, CA)

ARIA: Diabetic Retinopathy Prognosis via Hypertensive Modeling; ML-based Morphological Computer Vision for Rapid Ophthalmology 

and 

Jilly Cronin (Oak Park, IL)

Effects of Salinity and Temperature on Adsorption of Zinc by E. gracilis

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2015 BioGENEius Winners: Anvita Gupta (Scottsdale, AZ) 

Novel Therapeutics for Genetic and Infectious Diseases: 

Drug Discovery Targeting Intrinsically Disordered Proteins

and

Han Jie (Austin) Wang (Vancouver, BC)

Identifying Genes with Roles in Power Output of 

Exoelectrogenic Bacteria in Microbial Fuel Cells

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2014 BioGENEius Winner: Emily Wang (Palo Alto, CA)

Illuminating Disease Pathways: Developing Bright Fluorescent Proteins 

to Improve FRET Biosensing

 

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2013 BioGENEius Winner: Natalie Ng (Cupertino, CA)

Advancing Precision Medicine: MicroRNA Prognostic Signatures and Prediction Models 

for Distant Metastasis-Free Survival in Breast Cancer

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2012 BioGENEius Winner: Nathan Kondamuri (Dyer, IN)

A Novel Porphyrin Based Solar Cell Combining Coordinated Metal Ion Substitution

and Self-Assembly to Broaden the Absorption Spectrum

to Efficiently Create Sustainable Electrical Energy

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