Baxter Young Investigator Award - 2016 Winners
To celebrate and promote innovative research, Baxter sponsors an annual award program open to graduate students and postdoctoral fellows. The 2016 winners are listed below:
FIRST-TIER WINNERS
Zida Li
Graduate Student
University of Michigan
Mechanical Engineering
Advisor: Jianping Fu
Research Title:A Miniaturized Hemoretractometer for Blood Clot Retraction Testing
Joonyoung Park
Graduate Student
Purdue University
Industrial & Physical Pharmacy
Advisor: Yoon Yeo
Research Title: Development of carrier-free albumin functionalized paclitaxel nanocrystals
Jeffrey Plott
Graduate Student
University of Michigan
Mechanical Engineering
Advisor: Albert Shih
Research Title: Device to Aid in Arterial Microvascular Anastomosis
Shang Song
Graduate Student
University of California, San Francisco
Bioengineering & Therapeutic Sciences
Advisor: Shuvo Roy
Research Title: Silicon Nanopore Membrane (SNM) for islet encapsulation and immuniosolation under convective transport to treat Type 1 Diabetes (T1D)
Jacqueline Wallat
Graduate Student
Case Western Reserve University
Macromolecular Science & Engineering
Advisor: Jon Pokorski
Research Title: A Clickable-Fluorous Nanoparticle Platform for Imaging Tumors
Andrea Wolf
Graduate Student
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Surgery
Advisor: Gregory Beilman
Research Title: Preclinical Characterization and Optimization of BHB/M, a Low-Volume Intravenous Resuscitation Fluid for the Treatment of Hemorrhagic Shock
SECOND-TIER WINNERS
Elizabeth Brisbois
PostDoctoral Fellow
University of Michigan
Surgery
Advisor: Mark Meyerhoff
Research Title: Therapeutic nitric oxide (NO) delivery from biomedical polymers for improved hemocompatibility for extracorporeal circulation (ECC)
Kambez Hajipouran Benam
PostDoctoral Fellow
Harvard
Biologically Inspired Engineering
Advisor: Donald Ingber
Research Title: Small airway-on-a-chip enables analysis of human lung inflammation, drug responses and recreation of inhaled smoke-induced micropathologies in vitro
Umer Hassan
PostDoctoral Fellow
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Bioengineering
Advisor: Rashid Bashir
Research Title: Differential Immuno-Capture Biochip for Disease Diagnosis & Management
Jungwoo Kim
Graduate Student
California Institute of Technology
Chemistry & Chemical Engineering
Advisor:James Heath
Research Title: Serum proteomic measurement for monitoring and predicting glioblastoma patient responses to an anti-angiogenic drug treatment
Joshua Laber
Graduate Student
University of Texas, Austin
Chemical Engineering
Advisor: Jennifer Maynard
Research Title: High trehalose and histidine formulation tempers surface charge mediated solubility and viscosity effects for supercharged green fluorescent proteins at high concentrations
Buddhadev Layek
PostDoctoral Fellow
University of Minnesota
Experimental & Clinical Engineering
Advisor: Swayam Prabha
Research Title: Glycoengineered Mesenchymal Stem Cells as an Enabling Platform for Two-Step Targeting of Solid Tumors
Phillip Lewis
Graduate Student
Northwestern University
Biomedical Engineering
Advisor: Ramile Shah
Research Title: 3D Printing and Matrix Culture Strategies for in vitro Liver Tissue Models
Chien-Sheng Liao
Graduate Student
Purdue University
Biomedical Engineering
Advisor:Ji-Xin Cheng
Research Title: Quantification of circulating tumor cells by intravital stimulated Raman flow cytometry
Lorenzo Rossini
Graduate Student
University of California, San Diego
Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering
Advisor:Juan Carlos del Alamo
Research Title: A Clinical Method to Assess the Risk of Thrombus Formation in the Left Ventricle
Metin Uz
PostDoctoral Fellow
Iowa State University
Chemical & Biological Engineering
Advisor: Surya Mallapragada
Research Title: Bioinspired Stimuli-Responsive Membranes for Biomedical Applications
Qian Wu
PostDoctoral Fellow
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Chemistry
Advisor: Jonathan Sweedler
Research Title: The development of novel measurement approaches for unbiased chemical characterization of the temporal and spatial changes of tissue samples