Past Initiatives

Dr. Brendan Parent JD, professor of Medical Ethics and Bioethics at NYU Grossman School of Medicine and Langone Health, joined students in an insightful discussion about medical ethics and its place in healthcare.

Dr. Priyanka Porwal, PhD, a public health dentist and medical writer based in Saudi Arabia, spoke to students about the basics of research, types of research, and levels of analysis. This lecture helped students break down their own capstone projects.

Dr. Marina Cordeiro MD, a precision medicine physician in Dubai, spoke to students on the growing field of precision medicine in the 21st century and its implications in healthcare.

Megan Parish, PhD candidate in bioinformatics at the University of Birmingham, spoke to students about the basics of bioinformatics and its growing use in academia. She spoke on her personal research regarding cancer genomics and provided students with various databases to conduct their own analyses.

Marie, a biotechnologist, spoke about biotechnology and its advancements due to technology. She outlined the types of biotechnology with an in-depth view of what each entails, with a special focus on its use in medicine.

Dr. Jenny Bloodgood, Professor of Veterinary Sciences at Cornell University, joined us in a discussion about veterinary science, marine life, and animal preservation. We did a deep dive in Dr. Bloodgood's experience with animals and her research.

Dr. Rohit Kapoor MD, Hematologist and Oncologist in India, spoke to students about the vast field of hematology and outlined the basics in hematology including blood anatomy and common hematological diseases such as leukemia.

Priya Tyagi, undergraduate student at the University of Maryland majoring in Cell Biology and Genetics, spoke to students about radiology, biomedical imaging, and her research project about machine learning and pediatric cancer tumors through radiomic features. Through a deep-dive of her research, students were able to craft their own using her insights.

The founder of A World We Once Knew, Aryana Wadhwani, spoke on the overlap between neurobiology and the UN's sustainable development goals. Through difficult questionnaires, the attendees won prizes such as Pura Vida bracelets, . 

With a group of 6 excited contestants, the President of Medicine Informatics hosted a Medical Jeopardy with BioMedizone! Winners of the Jeopardy game won stickers as prizes.

In a series panel, BioMedizone invited Champion Lumumba, an aspiring neurosurgeon, to speak for a Surgery Panel. After this panel, BioMedizone invited Morgan P. and Anna M., both neuroscience professionals aiming for their neuroscience graduate degree, to speak about their experience.

In this event, BioMedizone partnered with Med Dreamers in order to talk to 15 students about Initiative and Passion Projects and ways high school students can add that to their resumes to make their portfolios impressive to college admissions officers. 

In our immunology research competition, our 110+ students explored a vast variety of fields in immunology, focusing their research on answering the following prompt on discussing the transition between traditional immunology to targeted therapies.

. The winners of this competition were published in the Global Youth STEM Journal. Winners were determined by a collaborative effort between our Events Director, Research Co-Director, and an undergraduate student at UNC Chapel Hill majoring in immunology.

Winners: Nidhi Veerendra and Neil Panchal

Winning Research Topics:

• Nidhi Veerendra and Neil Panchal: Evolution of Immunology: Navigating a Sea of Change to Targeted Therapies

Read their article below!