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.

2012 Student Travel Grant Winners

• Sami Albeiroti
  Cleveland Clinic Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland, OH
• Hong Bui, MSc
  VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, NETHERLANDS
• Alvaro Cerda Maureira, MSc
  School of Pharmaceutical Sciences / University of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, BRAZIL
• Jie Chen
  West China Hospital of Sichuan University, Chengdu, CHINA
• Tai-Long Chen, MSc
  Chang Gung University, Tao Yuan, TAIWAN
• Jessica Colón-Franco, PhD
  Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN
• Jane Dickerson, PhD
  University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, WA
• Leslie Donato, PhD
  Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN
• Erin Kaleta, PhD
  Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN
• Takahiro Kameda, MSc
  Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo, JAPAN
• Thomas Kampfrath, PhD
  University of Louisville, Louisville, KY
• Eduardo Martinez Morillo, PhD
  Mount Sinai Hospital, Ontario, CANADA
• Matt Petrie, PhD
  University of California-San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
• Alina Sofronescu, PhD, MSc
  Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC
• Zhen Zhao, PhD
  Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO