SLAS2012 Tony B. Academic Travel Award Winners

SLAS selected 39 up-and-coming researchers as SLAS2012 Tony B. Academic Travel Award recipients. Each recipient receives complimentary travel, hotel accommodations and registration for SLAS2012 and participates as a podium or poster presenter.

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Tony B. Academic Travel Award

The Tony B. Academic Travel Award honors Tony Beugelsdijk, Los Alamos National Laboratory, an Association for Laboratory Automation (ALA) co-founder who passed away in August, 2009. Tony played a very inspirational and instrumental role in laboratory robotics and made significant contributions to ALA, the former LabAutomation conference and exhibition, and the scientific community as a whole. We are honored to remember him through a program that recognizes up-and-coming researchers who have demonstrated outstanding achievement in laboratory science and technology.

Congratulations Tony B. Academic Travel Award Winners:

  • Hazem Abdelkarim, University of Illinois at Chicago/College of Pharmacy, Chicago, Illinois, United States
  • Venkata Praveen Annam, Wichita State University, Wichita, Kansas, United States
  • Dario Bogojevic, University of Toronto, Wheeler Microfluidics Lab, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
  • Marie-Elena Brett, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States
  • Pavani Chennapragada, University of Texas, Dallas, Plano, Texas, United States
  • Krzysztof Churski, Institute of Physical Chemistry of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland
  • Narahara Chari Dingari, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
  • Gerard Dumancas, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma, United States
  • Hendrik Falk, Walter and Eliza Hall Institute, Parkville, Australia
  • Somesree Ghoshmitra, Southeast Missouri State University, Cape Girardeau, Missouri, United States
  • Andre Gross, IMTEK - University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
  • Samuel Hasson, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States
  • Peng He, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States
  • Chatura Jayakody, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States
  • Tomasz Kaminski, Institute of Physical Chemistry, Warsaw, Poland
  • Hanyoup Kim, Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore, California, United States
  • Vattipalli Krishna, University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, Texas, United States
  • Vindhya Kunduru, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
  • Radoslaw Kwapiszewski, Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland
  • Sunghoon Kwon, Seoul National University, Seoul Republic of Korea
  • Andreas Madjarov, IMTEK - University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
  • Chester Markwalter, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware, United States
  • Amy McPherson, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina United States
  • Cheryl Meyerkord, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States
  • Armaghan Naik, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
  • Karoliny Oliveira, Federal University of Goias, Goiania, Brazil
  • Anastasios Petropoulos, TEI-A, Athens, Greece
  • Omolara Popoola, University College Hospital, Ibadan, Nigeria
  • Alexander Price, The Scripps Research Institute, Jupiter, Florida, United States
  • Leo Price, Leiden-Amsterdam Center for Drug Research, Leiden University, Leiden, Netherlands
  • Elly Sinkala, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States
  • Barbara Smith, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States
  • Balajee Somalinga, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, United States
  • Numrin Thaitrong, Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore, California, United States
  • Maria Tsiper, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States
  • Paul Vogel, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, United States
  • Kevin Williams, Aberystwyth University, Aberystwyth, United Kingdom
  • Karina Ziolkowska, Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland
  • Kamil Zukowski, Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland