NCI Cancer Education Program participants received best research poster awards at Research!Louisville held September 13, 2019:

Norbert J. Burzynski Award Professional Student Category

1st place:  Ankur Patel 

ZEB mRNA Expression is Affected by Long Non-coding RNA ZFAS1

Mentor: Susan Galandiuk

2nd place:  James Burton 

Effect of Long Non-Coding RNA ZFAS1 on Epithelial-To-Mesenchymal Transition Protein Expression in Colorectal Cancer Cell Lines 

Mentor:  Susan Galandiuk

3rd place: Daniel Hodge 

The effects of arylamine N-acetyltransferase 1 on tumor immune response

Mentor: David Hein

Norbert J. Burzynski Award Undergraduate Student Category

1st place:  Grace Lian

Investigating molecules that confer sensitivity to AS1411 in lung adenocarcinoma cells

Mentor: Paula Bates

2nd place:  Kate Tarvestad

Low-Level Chronic Arsenic Exposure and its Effect on the ErbB Family Receptor Tyrosine Kinases.

Mentor:  Brian Ceresa

3rd place:  Destine Ede 

A Potential Novel Treatment for Neurofibromatosis Type 1 via RAS Inhibition 

Mentor: Geoffrey Clark