Congratulations to our poster award winners!
Stanford Bio-X Interdisciplinary Initiatives Seed Grants Program
Seminar & Poster Session
Thursday, August 27, 2026
Talks by:
Ellen Kuhl on Food@Stanford
Renee Zhao on Milli-Spinner Microrobot
1:00pm - 2:00pm
Clark Center Auditorium
Poster Session
2:00pm - 5:00pm
Clark Center Courtyard
309 posters were presented - view the poster list!
Join us in the Center Auditorium before the poster session for talks about Stanford Bio-X supported initiatives!
1:00 pm
ELLEN KUHL, Catherine Holman Johnson Director of Stanford Bio-X and Walter B Reinhold Professor in the School of Engineering
Food@Stanford
1:30pm
RENEE ZHAO, Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering
The Milli-Spinner Microbot
Key dates:
| General Attendance RSVP Deadline: | Tuesday, August 25, 2026 by 5:00pm |
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Seminar Poster Session: |
Thursday, August 27, 2026, 1:00-2:00pm Thursday, August 27, 2026, 2:00-5:00pm |
309 posters were presented - view the poster list!
Poster Award Winners:
Thank you so much to everyone who joined us at the Stanford Bio-X Interdisciplinary Initiatives Seed Grants Program Poster Session! It was wonderful to see so many members of the Stanford Bio-X community sharing their exciting research, and we hope you enjoyed the event and the opportunity to make new connections.
Out of the 309 posters submitted and presented, the following award winners were selected by our poster judges, based on judging criteria including scientific and innovative impact, interdisciplinarity, visual presentation, and engagement with the audience (listed in alphabetical order by last name):
POSTER AWARDS:
Presenter’s Name, Presenter’s Department (Laboratory, Lab Department)
| • Zainab Al-Atya, Neurology & Neurological Sciences (Van Haren Lab, Neurology & Neurological Sciences) | • Lorenzo Magni, Bioengineering (Qi Lab, Bioengineering) |
| • Raza Ali, Medicine - Cardiovascular Medicine (Yang Lab, Medicine - Cardiovascular Medicine) | • Jeffrey Naftaly, Biology (Red-Horse Lab, Biology) |
| • Amirsaman Ashtari, Radiation Oncology (Shahrokh Esfahani Lab, Radiation Oncology) | • Billy Wai-Lung Ng, Medicine - Oncology (Felsher Lab, Medicine - Oncology) |
| • Anjana Balachandar and Elsa McElhinney, Bioengineering (Hill-Maini Lab, Bioengineering) | • Rozina Noristani, Ophthalmology (Chan Lab, Ophthalmology) |
| • Jiayang Chen, Pathology (Axelrod Lab, Pathology) | • Daniel Oh, Neurobiology (Lin Lab, Neurobiology) |
| • Isabella Dang, Medicine - Endocrinology (Annes Lab, Medicine - Endocrinology) | • Michelle C. Quan, Chemical Engineering (Mai Lab, Chemical Engineering) |
| • Ashley David, Materials Science & Engineering (Dauskardt Lab, Materials Science & Engineering) | • Alexandra L. Ramos Figueroa, Chemical Engineering (Bao Lab, Chemical Engineering) |
| • Jaydon Deras, Chemical Engineering (Pinals Lab, Chemical Engineering) | • Samantha Reyes and Piper Mahn, Radiology (James Lab, Radiology) |
| • Eliza Ennis, Health Policy (Serna Lab, Health Policy) | • Kyle Roh, Bioengineering (Krishnan Lab, Electrical Engineering) |
| • Aaron Forman, Chemistry (Du Bois Lab, Chemistry) | • Eliza Schnitzer, Biology (Soltesz Lab, Neurosurgery and Neurosciences) |
| • Lauren Ginn, Orthopaedic Surgery (Shea Lab, Orthopaedic Surgery) | • Komal Sharma, Structural Biology (Winetraub Lab, Structural Biology) |
| • Jennifer Hamad, Chemistry (Wender Lab, Chemistry) | • Orion Singha, Biology (Dinneny Lab, Biology) |
| • Dina Hany, Biomedical Data Science (Plevritis Lab, Biomedical Data Science and Radiology) | • Iryna Vasyliv, Radiology (Daldrup-Link Lab, Radiology) |
| • Chuqiao Huyan, Chemical Engineering (Dunn Lab, Chemical Engineering) | • Callie M. Weber, Orthopaedic Surgery (Yang Lab, Orthopaedic Surgery & BioE) |
| • Dan Ilyn and Elli Brna, Mechanical Engineering (DeSimone Lab, Radiology and Chemical Engineering) | • Charlotte Weixel, Ophthalmology (Mahajan Lab, Ophthalmology) |
| • Bridget Keel, Biology (Cremer Lab, Biology) | • Qiqi Xian, Applied Physics (Tolias Lab, Ophthalmology) |
| • Emma Kennedy, Bioengineering (Barron Lab, Bioengineering) | • Ellie Yates, Orthopaedic Surgery (Yang Lab, Orthopaedic Surgery and Bioengineering) |
| • Jamie Claudia Kwon, Biology (Howitt Lab, Pathology and Microbiology & Immunology) | • Ashley Yeh, Neurosciences (Kaltschmidt Lab, Neurosurgery) |
| • Griffin Lee, Pediatrics (Porteus Lab, Pediatrics - Stem Cell Transplantation) | • Joseph Yoniles, Biophysics (Dunn Lab, Chemical Engineering) |
| • Lingfeng Luo, Surgery - Vascular Surgery (Leeper Lab, Surgery - Vascular Surgery and Medicine - Cardiovascular) | • Blake Zhou, Neurosciences (Fame Lab, Neurosurgery) |
HONORABLE MENTIONS:
Presenter’s Name, Presenter’s Department (Laboratory, Lab Department)
| • Dhruv Aggarwal, Ophthalmology (Goldberg Lab, Ophthalmology) | • Jessica Mann, Radiation Oncology (Attardi Lab, Radiation Oncology) |
| • Jacqueline Bendrick, Neurosciences (Kaltschmidt Lab, Neurosurgery) | • Ashka Patel, Mechanical Engineering (Feig Lab, Mechanical Engineering) |
| • Jacqueline Chen, Chemical Engineering (Brophy Lab, Bioengineering) | • David Reiner-Link, Molecular & Cellular Physiology (Huttenhain Lab, Molecular & Cellular Physiology) |
| • Jiabei Chen, Chemical Engineering (Gao Lab, Chemical Engineering) | • Joshua Rozner, Institute for Computational & Mathematical Engineering (Shain Lab, Linguistics) |
| • Rachel Clark, Pediatrics (Kim Lab, Pediatrics - Hematology & Oncology) | • Sunstone Shi, Neurology (Yang Lab, Neurology) |
| • Matthew DeJong, Chemical Engineering (Fordyce Lab, Bioengineering and Genetics) | • Nidhi Srikantam, Radiology (James Lab, Radiology) |
| • Harsh Goar, Medicine - Oncology (Gruber Lab, Medicine - Oncology) | • Sejal A. Sripadanna, Neurosurgery (Wang Lab, Neurosurgery) |
| • Mia Greeson, Molecular & Cellular Physiology (Huttenhain Lab, Molecular & Cellular Physiology) | • Lavanya Vumma, Medicine - Oncology (Gruber Lab, Medicine - Oncology) |
| • Curran Jacobus, Chemical Engineering (Rim Lab, Chemical Engineering) | • Sage Wheeler, Ophthalmology (Yu Lab, Ophthalmology) |
| • Seunghoon Kim, Ophthalmology (Chan Lab, Ophthalmology) | • Chang Yun, Chemical Engineering (Kundaje Lab, Genetics and Computer Science) |
| • Prerna Lavania, Biology (Cyert Lab, Biology) | • Abbas Zaki, Medicine - Oncology (Gruber Lab, Medicine - Oncology) |
| • Vladimir Mamchik, Biology (Palanker Lab, Ophthalmology) |
You can see their full titles in the poster list!
A special thank you to our poster judges: they reported that this was a difficult decision due to the extremely high quality of all of the posters presented. We hope to see you again at future Bio-X events!
The 2026 Poster Session featured over 300 scientific posters and was attended by over 1,000 members of the community:
Researchers enjoying the Stanford Bio-X Seed Grants Poster Session at the Clark Center on August 27, 2026.