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.

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Headshot portrait of Max Saccone - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Max Saccone - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2024

Home Department: Radiology and Chemical Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Joseph DeSimone
Talk Title: From polymers to power: Vat photopolymerization additive manufacturing of functional materials for energy, environment, and health applications
Event: ACS Spring 2024

Awarded in 2023

Talk Title: 3D printed flow-directing electrodes with nano-/micro-scale porosity for controlling transport and reactions
Event: 2023 AIChE Annual Meeting

Headshot portrait of Samuel Root - Bio-X Travel Awardee

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

Headshot portrait of Malvika Pillai - Bio-X Travel Awardee

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

Headshot portrait of Hieu Nguyen - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Hieu Nguyen - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2024

Home Department: Radiation Oncology
Faculty Advisor: Guillem Pratx
Talk Title: Whole-body dynamic tracking of single cells with positron emission particle tracking
Event: 2024 Biomedical Engineering Society Annual Meeting

Awarded in 2023

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.

Headshot portrait of Madelena Ng - Bio-X Travel Awardee

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

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 2024

Home Department: Radiology
Faculty Advisor: Adam Wang
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

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