The 2021 Summer Research Internship Program - High School Participants Session included 9 presentations.

2021 Winners:
1st Place
Theresa Xuan T. Nguyen
Anita R. Zahiri

2nd Place
Kayla Prevost

3rd Place
Lester J. Arnaud, IV
Faith U. Kelley
Mahir A. Rahman

Schedule
2021
Wednesday, July 21st
10:00 AM

“A Retrospective Comparison Between the Intervention of Tissue Plasminogen Activator and Video Assisted Thoracoscopic Surgery”

Thomas W. Payne, Huntington High School, Huntington, WV

10:00 AM

“An Evaluation of the Antinociceptive and Behaviorally-Disruptive Effects of delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol in Sprague Dawley Rats”

Kayla Prevost, St. Mary's Dominican High School, New Orleans, LA

10:00 AM

“An in vivo comparison of susceptibility of pancreatic and breast xenograft models to targeted osmotic lysis”

Jamal N. Bonner, St. Augustine High School, New Orleans, LA

10:00 AM

“Analysis on the tumor size and weight effects of targeted osmotic lysis in a murine model of pancreatic cancer”

Lester J. Arnaud IV, St. Augustine High School, New Orleans, LA

10:00 AM

“Do adrenal neuroendocrine and steroidal cells express the GluA2 ionotropic glutamate receptor?”

Faith U. Kelley, Patrick F. Taylor Science and Technology Academy, Westwego, LA

10:00 AM

“Dysregulation of PLA2G6 activity induce degeneration in astrocytes in culture”

Thomas R. Jackson, Brother Martin High School, New Orleans, LA

10:00 AM

“Mapping the Genomic Landscape of Triple-Negative Breast Cancer and COVID-19”

Mahir A. Rahman, Haynes Academy for Advanced Studies, Metairie, LA

10:00 AM

“Regeneration and Scar Tissue Formation: Developing Novel Approaches for Analyzing Macrophage-Mediated Regeneration”

Anita R. Zahiri, Benjamin Franklin High School, New Orleans, LA

10:00 AM

“Smoking and Mental Health: Associations between Adolescent E-cigarette Use and Feelings and Behaviors toward Suicide”

Theresa Xuan T. Nguyen, De La Salle High School, New Orleans, LA

10:00 AM