AACC encourages student participation in its annual meeting by awarding Student Travel Grants based on the students' accepted abstracts. AACC awards these grants on the basis of the student abstracts with the highest level of scientific value/content, originality/novelty, and quality of writing. Grant recipients receive a complimentary Annual Meeting basic registration and one morning brown bag session, and a $250 contribution toward travel expenses.

Funding for these awards are provided by a generous gift from Beckman Coulter to AACC’s Van Slyke Foundation.

2011 Student Travel Grant Winners

• Darci Block, PhD
  Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN
• Mark Borgman, PhD
  University of Louisville, Louisville, KY
• Jing Cao, PhD
  University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
• Roy Gerona, PhD
  San Francisco General Hospital/ UC San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
• Chao He
  West China Hospital of Sichuan University, Chengdu, China
• Zhihua Kang
  Huashan Hospital of Fudan University, Shanghai, China
• Yi Li
  West China Hospital of Sichuan University, Chengdu, China
• Gul Mustafa, PhD
  University of Texas Medical Branch-Galveston, Galveston, TX
• Dennis O’Rourke
  Brigham and Women's Hospital and Northeastern University, Boston, MA
• Amy Pyle, PhD
  Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN
• Heather Stevenson, MD, PhD
  University of Texas Medical Branch-Galveston, Galveston, TX
• Frederick Strathmann, PhD
  University of Washington, Seattle, WA
• Steve Truscott, PhD
  University of Louisville, Louisville, KY
• Kika Veljkovic, MD, PhD
  McMaster University, Burlington, ON, Canada
• Yongkang Wu
  West China Hospital of Sichuan University, Chengdu, China