Home Department: Bioengineering
Mentor: Gary Darmstadt (Pediatrics - Neonatology)

Home Department: Mechanical Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Juan Santiago
Talk Title: Selective passive adsorption of nitrate with surfactant treated porous electrode and electrostatic regeneration
Event: 70th Annual Meeting of the American Physical Society Division of Fluid Dynamics

Awarded in 2026
Home Department: Biomedical Data Sciences
Faculty Advisor: Sylvia Plevritis (Biomedical Data Science and Radiology)

Title: Integrative 3D Spatial Mapping of Lung Adenocarcinoma to Explore “Acinar Clefting” as an Immune Evasion Mechanism

Dr. Dita Gratzinger is a hematopathologist who is dedicated to excellent patient care, to educating the hematopathologists of tomorrow, and to improving both by harnessing strengths across institutional and disciplinary lines. Dr. Gratzinger studies the architecture of supporting cells in the microenvironment as well as diagnosis of lymphoma on small volume specimens, and has a special interest in the role of patient-specific factors in manifestation of hematolymphoid disease, including immunodeficiency and dysregulation-related lymphoid proliferations.