White Paper Competition 2010

Graduate Students/Postdocs
1st Place: Bridging the Gap In Higher Education Between the Developed and the Developing World: How American University Science and Engineering Programs Can Help by Lina Nilsson and Bertram Koelsch
2nd Place: Cooperative Microbial Forensics: Building an International Pathogen Genome Database by Jaime Yassif
3rd Place: Building Research and Healthcare Exemptions in Gene Patenting by Andrew Robertson
Honorable Mention:Chemical fingerprinting: Fingerprinting for the 21st Century by Gary Clark and Melissa Fabros

Travel Grants
Jaime Yassif; Lina Nilsson and Betram Koelsch

Judges:
Rafael Friedmann (Senior Policy Analyst, PG & E)
Rena Dorph (Director, Center for Research, Evaluation, and Assessment, Lawrence Hall of Science)
Jack Kirsch (Professor of Chemistry, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, UC Berkeley)

Special Thanks to Our Sponsors:
Life Technologies, Inc.
Gilead Sciences, Inc.
Pfizer, Inc.