More than 140 medical and graduate students recently attended the Midwest Student Biomedical Research Forum (MSBRF). The Feb. 18 event was at the DoubleTree in downtown Omaha.
Students attended from 11 institutions including Creighton University Medical Center; Indiana University Medical Center; Medical College of Wisconsin; Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science/Chicago Medical School; University of Illinois at Chicago; University of Louisville School of Medicine; University of Manitoba; UNMC; University of South Dakota School of Medicine; and the University of Wisconsin Medical School.
The winners of the MSBRF awards were:
Poster presentations – medical students
- First place — Nathan Murdoch, UNMC
- Second place — Jon Hunsaker, University of Louisville
- Third place — Javaneh Abbasian, University of Illinois at Chicago
- Fourth place — Justin Madson, Creighton University Medical Center
Poster presentations – graduate students
- First place — Pankaj Singh, UNMC
- Second place — Michelle Hartman, UNMC
- Third place — Alyssa Bouska, UNMC
- Fourth place — Kristin Bonstetter, Creighton University Medical Center
Oral presentations – medical students
- First place — Matthew Zipse, Indiana University School of Medicine
- Second place — Erin Klein, Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science
- Third place — Monica Khurana, Indiana University School of Medicine
- Fourth place — Joshua Lindsey, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health
Oral presentations – graduate students
- First place — Karen Kassel, UNMC
- Second place — Amit Sharma, DVM, UNMC
- Third place (TIE) — Christopher Taylor, Creighton University Medical Center
- Third place (TIE) — Viswanathan Rajagopalan, UNMC
- Fourth place oral presentation graduate student — Megan Kozisek, UNMC