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2020 Student Research Award Winners

2020 Oral Presentation Winners

First Place

Vijayalakshmi Nandakumar, PhD, ARUP Laboratories — Evaluation of phospho-Tau, total-Tau, and Neurofilament Light Chain in CSF for the Diagnosis of Sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease

Second Place

Christine Dolin, PhD, University of Kentucky — Bone Biomarkers Predict High Turnover vs. Low Turnover Osteoporosis

Honorable Mentions

Caroline Franks, PhD, Washington University — Diagnostic Concordance between BNP and NT-proBNP in Pediatric Patient

Brad Poore, PhD, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center — Retrospective Validation of the APE2 Score in Autoimmune Encephalopathy Evaluation Panels

2020 Poster Competition Winners

First Place

Nadia Ayala-Lopez, PhD, Vanderbilt University Medical Center — Discovery of novel medication interferents on point-of-care urine drug screen assays through analysis of electronic health record data

Second Place

Yiqi Ruben Luo, PhD, University of California San Francisco — Exploration of Applying High-Resolution MS2/MS3 Mass Spectrometry for Screening Toxic Natural Products

Honorable Mentions

Kayode Balogun, PhD, Department of Pathology, University of Utah and ARUP Laboratories — Characterization of Red Blood Cell Fatty Acid Profiles and Age-Dependent Reference Ranges

Erica Fatica, PhD, Mayo Clinic — Seeing Double: MASS-FIX Characterization of Immunofixation Bands as Monoclonal or Biclonal