1st Place: Nicole Ticea
Our 2015 National Grand Prize winner was Nicole Ticea of British Columbia for her project “Microfluidic Point-of-Care Device for Diagnosis of HIV via Recombinase Polymerase Amplification.” Nicole developed a test that is capable of diagnosing HIV in newborns under the age of 18 months and in adults before three months post-transmission. It is the first test capable of analyzing HIV viral nucleic acids in a point-of-care, low-resource setting.

Our National Runner-Up was Varsha Jayasankar for her project “Identifying Novel Broad-Spectrum Antibiotics in Curcuma Amada.”
4th Place: Ryan Wang
Our fourth place winner was Ryan Wang for his project “Identification and Functional Characterization of Putative Phosphorylation Sites on Scleraxis.”

Our third place was Anoop Manjunath for his project “Image Processing Techniques for the Analysis of Ultrasound Stimulated Bubble Interactions with Fibrin Clots.”

Our fifth place winner was Julien Sénécal for his project “Inhibition of HIV-1 Replication Cycle with the CRISPR/Cas9 System.”
[rev_slider 2014winners]