SLAS Travel Award Winners (Podium)

Avinash Babre, Brown University
A Novel Solution for Environment-Independent High Sensitivity Fluid Characterization
Micro- and Nanotechnologies

Julia Miller, Brown University
Enhanced Flow Cytometry for Detection of Low-Abundance Neurological Biomarkers
New Modalities

Rifaldy Fajar
Modeling-Driven Integration of Single-Cell Transcriptomics and High-Throughput Screening Data to Predict Adaptive Drug Resistance
Data Science and AI

Brent Ryan, University of Oxford
High-content Deep-mitochondrial Phenotyping at Scale
Data Science and AI

Jocelyn Baker, Rice University
Rapid Single-Cancer Cell Encapsulation in Extracellular Matrix-mimicking Micromodel for 3D Cancer Cell Morphology and Chemotoxicity Investigations
Data Science and AI

Christophe Deben, University of Antwerp
Closing the Loop: Automated Organoid Phenotypic Screening and AI-Driven DMTA Cycles for Next-Generation Precision Oncology Drug Discovery
Screening Applications and Biomarker Diagnostics

Pan Deng
Regularized Single-cell Imaging Enables Generalizable AI models for Stain-free Cell Viability Screening
New Modalities

Prasiddha Guragain, University of Akron
A High-Throughput 3D Model to Study Bone Metastasis of Breast Cancer
Screening Applications and Biomarker Diagnostics

Molly Kulikauskas, NCATS/NIH
Optimization of Three Cell-Based Assays to Identify Small Molecule Up-Regulators of Genes in Haploinsufficiency Diseases with High Throughput Screening
Cellular Technologies

Seoyeon Lee, Yale University
Integrating Neuron Villages and Multiomics to Uncover Sex Imbalance in Neuropsychiatric Disorder Risk
Omics and Spatial Omics

Lunan Liu, New York University
Pancreatic Cancer Organoids-on-a-Chip for CAR T Cell Therapy Evaluation and Screening
Screening Applications and Biomarker Diagnostics

Yang Miao
Foundation Cell Segmentation Models Performance on Live Microscopy and Spatial-omics data
Micro- and Nanotechnologies

Tom Park, University of California, San Diego
Clinical Validation of a Wearable Ultrasound Sensor of Blood Pressure
Assay Development and Screening

Tanishka Saraf, National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences
Homogeneous Proximity Assay Profiling to Evaluate Cross-platform Reproducibility in Identifying High-throughput Screening Hits
Assay Development and Screening