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