Awarded in 2011

Home Department: Bioengineering
Faculty Advisor: Jennifer Cochran
Talk Title: Creating molecular recognition from scratch: Stepwise engineering of knottin peptides to bind tumor marker CA IX
Event: American Chemical Society 241st National Meeting


Awarded in 2010

Talk Title: Engineering High Affinity Knottin Peptides Targeting Tumor Marker CAIX for Cancer Imaging and Therapy
Event: Protein Society 24th Annual Symposium - Sarah's talk was selected as a Young Investigator Talk which was an honor since only 16 talks over the 5 days were selected from 510 abstract submissions. She also received a Graduate Student Poster Award from the poster that accompanied the talk.