Photo of 5 Travel Award recipients standing in the Clark Center courtyard.

The Bio-X Travel Awards Program gives graduate students and postdocs the opportunity to develop their public speaking skills, to travel and network with like-minded peers, and to learn new ideas that could potentially and positively affect their research.

Search travel awardees View the 2019 Travel Awards brochure

Headshot portrait of Mekedlawit Setegne - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Mekedlawit Setegne - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2025

Home Department: Chemistry
Faculty Advisor: Laura Dassama
Talk Title: Engineering cell-specific protein delivery vehicles for erythroid lineage cells
Event: Conference for Emerging Black Academics in STEM (CEBAS) 2025

Headshot portrait of Daniel Richman - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Daniel Richman - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2025

Home Department: Computer Science
Faculty Advisor: Ron Dror
Talk Title: Towards efficient conformational sampling for biomolecules
Event: Frontiers of Biophysics 2025

Headshot portrait of Sarah Zou - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Sarah Zou - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2025

Home Department: Electrical Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Craig Levin
Talk Title: Triplexed PET: Methods to Image Distinct Three Isotopes in a Single PET Imaging Session
Event: 2025 SNMMI Annual Meeting

Headshot portrait of Zhe Zhuang - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Zhe Zhuang - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2025

Home Department: Chemical & Systems Biology
Faculty Advisor: Nathanael Gray
Talk Title: Molecular Glue Discovery Enabled by Targeted Degron Display
Event: 2025 Western Regional Meeting

Headshot portrait of Xijun Zhu - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Xijun Zhu - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2025

Home Department: Chemistry
Faculty Advisor: Nathanael Gray
Talk Title: Activating p53Y220C with a mutant-specific small molecule
Event: ACS Fall 2025

Headshot portrait of Zhixiang Zhao - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Zhixiang Zhao - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2025

Home Department: Radiology
Faculty Advisor: Craig S. Levin
Talk Title: Modular Readout Electronics System for a 3D Position Sensitive 100 ps Coincidence Time Resolution TOF-PET Detector Configuration
Event: 2025 IEEE NSS MIC RTSD

Headshot portrait of Junyi Zhao - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Junyi Zhao - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2025

Home Department: Chemical Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Zhenan Bao
Talk Title: Democratizing Soft Electronics for Human-Machine Interface
Event: American Chemical Society 2025 Fall Meeting - Junyi was honored as a PMSE Future Faculty Awardee by the Polymer Materials: Science and Engineering (PMSE) Division of ACS.

Headshot portrait of Yixin Wang - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Yixin Wang - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2025

Home Department: Bioengineering
Faculty Advisors: Kilian Pohl and Michael Zeineh
Talk Title: Volumetric Histology via High-Fidelity Coregistration with MRI
Event: 2025 ISMRM & ISMRT Annual Meeting & Exhibition: International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine - Yixin receive the “Trainee Travel Award” and “Magna cum Laude Merit Award” at the event.

Headshot portrait of Liyan Sun - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Liyan Sun - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2025

Home Department: Radiology
Faculty Advisor: Adam S. Wang
Talk Title: Image Synthesis of CT Volumes from Two-View Scouts with Conditional Diffusion Models
Event: RSNA 2025

Headshot portrait of Jiankai Sun - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Jiankai Sun - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2025

Home Department: Aeronautics & Astronautics
Faculty Advisor: Mac Schwager
Talk Title: Multi-Agent Embodied Intelligent Systems Meet Generative-AI Era: Opportunities, Challenges and Futures
Event: The IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2025

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