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 Kerem Nernekli - Bio-X Travel Awardee

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

Headshot portrait of Renato Navarro - Bio-X Travel Awardee

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

Headshot portrait of Maria Jose Medrano Matamoros  - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Maria Jose Medrano Matamoros - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2025

Home Department: Radiology
Faculty Advisor: Adam Wang
Talk Title: Prospective Organ-Level Dose Estimation in CT Imaging Using Scout-Net: A Comparison with Established Methods
Event: AAPM Annual Meeting 2025

Awarded in 2024

Talk Title: Personalized, scout-based dose estimation for prospective optimization of CT tube current modulation
Event: SPIE Medical Imaging 2024

Awarded in 2023

Talk Title: Organ-aware, scout-based approach for scout segmentation and prospective, personalized organ CT dose estimation
Event: RSNA 2023 Annual Meeting

Headshot portrait of Daniel Massana Roquero - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Daniel Massana Roquero - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2023

Home Department: Urology
Faculty Advisors: Joseph C. Liao and Shan X. Wang
Talk Title: Efficacy and safety of a magnetic hydrogel for stone fragment removal: An in vitro and in vivo study
Event: 2023 AUA Annual Meeting - Daniel presented a poster in the Engineering and Urology Society session which was recognized with the Best Abstract Award.

Headshot portrait of Michael Li - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Michael Li - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2023

Home Department: Computer Science
Faculty Advisor: Scott Linderman
Talk Title: Neural adaptive smoothing via twisting
Event: 5th Symposium on Advances in Approximate Bayesian Inference

Headshot portrait of Hope Leng - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Hope Leng - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2023

Home Department: Bioengineering
Faculty Advisor: Manu Prakash
Talk Title: Sustainable distributed biological manufacturing of point-of-care molecular diagnostics
Event: BMES (Biomedical Engineering Society) 2023

Headshot portrait of Jason Kronenfeld - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Jason Kronenfeld - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2024

Home Department: Chemistry
Faculty Advisor: Joseph DeSimone
Talk Title: Scalable microparticle fabrication via r2rCLIP: Enabling a new era of advanced particle applications
Event: 2024 Additive Manufacturing of Soft Materials GRS/GRC

Awarded in 2023

Talk Title: 3D, shape-specific, scalable, micro-fabricated particle production via roll-to-roll printing and continuous liquid interface production (r2rCLIP)
Event: 2023 AIChE Annual Meeting

Headshot portrait of David Kilian - Bio-X Travel Awardee

David Kilian - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2023

Home Department: Materials Science & Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Sarah Heilshorn
Talk Title: Granular support baths for embedded 3D bioprinting alter construct microstructure and improve cell spreading
Event: International Conference on Biofabrication 2023 (ISBF 2023) - David received the first prize of the conference's oral presentation awards during the closing ceremony.

Headshot portrait of Muhammad Khatib - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Muhammad Khatib - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2023

Home Department: Chemical Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Zhenan Bao
Talk Title: High-density soft bioelectronic fibers
Event: 2023 MRS Fall Meeting & Exhibit - Muhammad was honored with the Best Presentation Award at the symposium.

Headshot portrait of Samuel Jaros - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Samuel Jaros - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2023

Home Departments: Epidemiology & Population Health
Faculty Advisor: Lorene Nelson
Talk Title: A mixed-methods analysis of community factors influencing acceptance of medication for opioid use disorder services
Event: AHSR (Addiction Health Services Research) Conference 2023

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