The C. Frank Webber Prize for Student Research 2019 winners

From Left to Right:  Christopher “Kyle” Black, Jacob Watson, Mariaelena Boyle
Picture Credit: Dwight Andrews-MS Office of Communications

First Place:       Monetary award plus plaque

     Mariaelena Boyle, Transplanted Human Intestinal Organoids (HIOs) Demonstrate Enhanced Tight Junctions Compared to in vitro HIOs
                   Sponsored by Allison L Speer, MD, Department of Pediatric Surgery

Second Place:       Monetary award plus plaque

     Jacob Watson, High Fat Diet Increases Alkaline Phosphatase Activity of Murine Blood in Conjunction with Hypercholesterolemia, Atherosclerosis and Cardiac Dysfunction
                   Sponsored by Yong-Jian Geng, MD, PhD, Department of Internal Medicine

Third Place:       Monetary award plus plaque

     Christopher “Kyle” Black, Which Normalizer? An important question in RT-qPCR
                   Sponsored by Heinrich Taegtmeyer, MD, DPhil, Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine