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

Ru Wen - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2023

Home Department: Urology
Faculty Advisor: James Brooks
Talk Title: Siglec-7/9 are novel immune checkpoints for prostate cancer
Event: IMMUNOLOGY2023 - Ru received an AAI abstract trainee award.

Reika Tei - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2023

Home Department: Genetics
Faculty Advisor: Alice Ting
Talk Title: Membrane editing and proximity labeling reveals a dynamic network regulating phosphatidic acid metabolism
Event: ASCB | EMBO Cell Bio 2023

Sophia Shi - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2023

Home Department: Chemistry
Faculty Advisors: Tony Wyss-Coray and Carolyn Bertozzi
Talk Title: Cerebrovascular glycocalyx degeneration during aging and neurodegenerative disease promotes blood-brain barrier dysfunction and brain bleeds
Event: Cerebral Vascular Biology 2023 - Sophia won the David S. Miller Young Scientist Award, which is awarded to one young scientist at the conference who demonstrates promising research in the brain barriers research field.

Max Saccone - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2023

Home Departments: Radiology and Chemical Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Joseph DeSimone
Talk Title: 3D printed flow-directing electrodes with nano-/micro-scale porosity for controlling transport and reactions
Event: 2023 AIChE Annual Meeting

Samuel Root - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2023

Home Department: Chemical Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Zhenan Bao
Talk Titles: Autonomous alignment and healing in multilayer soft electronics using immiscible dynamic polymers, A damage-mapping, self-healing electronic skin for surgical simulation training, and Charge transport through self-assembled monolayers—The roles of conformation and chelation
Event: Materials Research Society 2023

Malvika Pillai - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2023

Home Department: Biomedical Informatics
Faculty Advisor: Tina Hernandez-Boussard
Talk Title: Validation approaches for computational drug repurposing: a review
Event: AMIA 2023 Annual Symposium

Hieu Nguyen - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2023

Home Department: Radiation Oncology
Faculty Advisor: Guillem Pratx
Talk Title: Tracking multiple FDG labeled single cells in vivo with a Gaussian-mixture-based model
Event: American Association of Physicists in Medicine 2023 - Hieu was awarded the Jack Krohmer Early-Career Investigator Award, judged according to criteria of significance, innovation, and the potential for major scientific impact in an area of cutting-edge interest in medical physics.

Madelena Ng - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2023

Home Department: Biomedical Informatics
Faculty Advisor: Tina Hernandez-Boussard
Talk Title: State of awareness of MLOps principles ascertained from AI/ML-enabled healthcare solution implementation papers: A scoping review
Event: AMIA 2023 Annual Symposium

Kerem Nernekli - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2023

Home Department: Radiology
Faculty Advisor: Heike Daldrup-Link
Talk Title: Detection of senescent cells in pig specimen using a β-gal MR imaging agent
Event: RSNA 2023 Annual Meeting

Renato Navarro - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2023

Home Department: Materials Science & Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Sarah Heilshorn
Talk Title: Design parameters for injectable biopolymeric hydrogels with dynamic covalent chemistry crosslinks
Event: 2023 Society for Advancement of Chicanos/Hispanics and Native Americans in Science

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