UNC Charlotte students awarded at the 2025 Biomedical Sciences Symposium

The 2025 Biomedical Sciences Symposium kicked off North Carolina Life Sciences Week on Monday, Sept. 15 at the Dubois Center at UNC Charlotte Center City, where students from universities across North Carolina presented their research throughout the afternoon. The event featured 113 research projects, including 65 poster presentations and 40 oral presentations.

UNC Charlotte’s Center for Biomedical Engineering and Science (CBES) and the North Carolina Biotechnology Center (NCBiotech) hosted the event, where over 300 representatives from 70+ institutions convened to share research and advance discovery across the state.

Posters were judged prior to the symposium by panels of researchers in the field and the winners were announced at the end of the day.

Poster Winners

Regenerative Medicine

First place: Khayzaran Qubbaj, UNC Charlotte

Second place: Caleb Aguayo, Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine

Host-Pathogen Interactions and Infectious Disease

First place: Erin Mills, UNC Charlotte

Second place: Loren Cocciolone, UNC Charlotte

Cancer and Translational Medicine

First place: Madeline Childress, UNC Chapel Hill

Second place: Halle Meyers, UNC Chapel Hill

Big Data and AI in Life Sciences

First place: Isha Jain, UNC Charlotte

Second place: Javier Avalos Nuñez, UNC Charlotte

Medical Devices and Nanomaterials and Structure Based Design

First place: Ana Espinosa-Momox, UNC Charlotte

Second place (tie): Jacob Ortega, Campbell University, School of Osteopathic Medicine and Udayakumar Karuppanan, UNC Charlotte