Pictured, above: (front row -left to right) Mark Weiss, James Lillich, Sushanta Banerjee, Asma Zaidi;
(back row - left to right) Yu-Ping Wang, Joan McDowd, Mark Johnson, Sarah Kieweg, Hong-Wen Deng.

Hong-Wen Deng Ph.D. – University of Missouri – Kansas City; "Powerful and robust test of TNF-a gene with obesity, a key risk factor for cardiovascular disease"

Mark Johnson, Ph.D. - University of Missouri – Kansas City; "Tissue Protein Profiling to Indentify Genes Underlying Aortic Valve Calcification"

Mark Weiss, Ph.D. – Kansas State University; "Transgenic rats created via rat embryonic stem cell technology"

James Lillich, Ph.D. – Kansas State University; "In vitro & ex vivo assessment of a novel lipopolysaccaride binding pharmacophore"

Asma Zaidi, Ph.D. – University of Kansas; "Age-dependent changes in the cardiac plasma membrane Ca2+ATPase"

Sarah Kieweg, Ph.D. – University of Kansas; "Measuring vaginal tissue mechanics in vivo to optimize anti-HIV drug delivery"

Sushanta Banerjee, Ph.D. – University of Kansas Medical Center; "Role of WISP2/CCN5 in a Breast Cancer Mouse Model"

Joan McDowd, Ph.D. – University of Kansas Medical Center; "Measuring Executive Function in Aging and Age-related Neurological Diseases"

Juan Bruses, M.D., Ph.D. – University of Kansas Medical Center; "Role of N-cadherin in neuronal and symaptic patterning"

Yu-Ping Wang, Ph.D. – University of Missouri – Kansas City; "Computation Imaging, Integrated Molecular Karyotyping, Gene Expression Analysis"

Michael Johnson, Ph.D. – University of Kansas; "Striatal Dopamine Release in Fragile X Syndrome"

Nancy Hammond, Ph.D. – University of Kansas Medical Center; "Comparison of Bone Effects with Copaxone and Interferon in Multiple Sclerosis"