2019 Oral Presentation Winners
First Place:
Katherine Turner, PhD, Mayo Clinic — Going gel free: Adding M-protein quantitation to MASS-FIX in the clinical lab
Second Place:
Christopher Farnsworth, PhD, Washington University, St. Louis — Parameters for Validating a Hospital Pneumatic Tube System: Lessons Learned from Closing a Satellite Laboratory
Honorable Mentions:
Lutao Du, PhD, Department of Clinical Laboratory, The Second Hospital of Shandong University — Expression Signatures of Exosomal Long Non-coding RNAs in Urine Serve as Novel Non-invasive Biomarkers for Diagnosis and Recurrence Prediction of Bladder Cancer
Jeffrey SoRelle, BS, MD, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center — Long Term Effect of Hormone Therapy on Lab Values in Transgender Individuals
2019 Poster Contest Winners
First Place:
Y. Ruben Luo, PhD, University of California San Francisco — A Rapid Plate-Format Label-Free Immunoassay for Quantitation of Monoclonal Antibody Drugs and Detection of Anti-Drug Antibodies in Serum Samples
Second Place:
Erin Schuler, PhD, University of Kentucky — Checkmate: Evaluating the Cardio Check POC Device for Accurate Determination of Lipid Profiles and Cardiovascular Risk in Ambulatory Patients
Honorable Mentions:
Grace Kroner, PhD, University of Utah Health Sciences Center, Department of Pathology — Comparative Cannabinoid Cross-reactivity in THC Immunoassays
Jennifer Taher, PhD, University of Toronto — Assessing the feasibility of common reference intervals across different analytical platforms: Evidence from CALIPER pediatric reference intervals database

2019 Student Poster Contest Winners