EMBS Student Competition

co-sponsored by the Whitaker Foundation

The Awards Committee has completed its deliberations and is pleased to announce the 2004 EMBS Student Award Recipients

Paper Competition

Mary P. McDougall
Texas A&M University
First Place Recipient

Kartikeya Murari
John Hopkins University
Second Place Recipient

Angela Tooker
California Institute of Technology
Third Place - Tie

Corey Yanofsky
McGill University
Third Place - Tie

Design Competition

Esther Kim, Mary McDonald & William Tam
John Hopkins University
First Place Recipient

Zafer Aydin
Georgia Institute of Technology
Second Place Recipient

Nobuo Watanabe
Tokyo Medical and Dental University
Third Place Recipient

Here's the list of all the Finalists

Regional Finalists
Region 1 - Francisco A. Rodriguez Campos, University of Connecticut
Region 2 - R. Jacob Vogelstein, John Hopkins University
Region 3 - He Jingwu, Georgia State University
Region 4 - Ashwin Ganapathy, University of MissouriColumbia
Region 5 - Mary P. McDougall, Texas A&M University
Region 6 - Joy R. Baxter, University of California, Santa Barbara
Region 7 - Corey M. Yanofsky, McGill University, Canada
Region 8 - Cristian A. Tejos, University of Cambridge, UK
Region 9 - Leticia S. Rocha, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Brazil
Region 10- Guohua Lin, Hangzhou Normal College Medical School

Open Finalists
Takehiro Yamakoshi, Hukui University, Japan
Angela Tooker, California Institute of Technology
Anna Blasi, University of Southern California
Kartikeya Murari, John Hopkins University
Yair Horesh, Bar-llan University, Israel

Design Finalists
Esther J. Kim, John Hopkins University
Zafer Aydin, Georgia Institute of Technology
Nobuo Watanabe, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Japan