The 2018 Student Travel Grants were made possible, in part, by a generous donation from the Beckman Coulter Corporation to AACC's access program.
2018 Student Travel Grant Winners
Dustin Bunch, Yale-New Haven Hospital - Comparison of Multiple Analytical Approaches for Determining Reference Intervals
Carmen Gherasim, University of Utah - Genotyping of selected alleles involved in tramadol metabolism provide evidence for additional factors beyond CYP2D6-infered phonotype that may contribute to observed metabolite patterns
Stacy Kenyon, Mayo Clinic - Clinical Correlation between Serum Biomarkers CA27.29 and CA15-3 and Disease Status in Patients with a History of Advanced Breast Cancer
Christopher Koch, Cleveland State University, Cleveland Clinic Lerner Research Institute - Assay Development And Evaluation Of Serum Aggrecan And Versican As Novel Biomarkers For Thoracic Aortic Aneurysm And Dissection
Camila Nobre, Laboratório Sabin - Whole-exome sequencing as first-tier testing approach for identification of the causal mutations in hereditary spherocytosis candidate genes and the use of non-sanger-based methods for validation of the findings
Jason Robinson, Calgary Lab Services - Therapeutic Drug Monitoring of Lipophilic Immunosuppressive Drugs during Hyperlipidemia
Heather Robison, University of Michigan - A Machine Learning Approach to Inflammatory Cytokine Profiling Reveals Diagnostic Signatures for Latent Tuberculosis Infection and Reactivation Risk Stratification
Kwabena Sarpong, University of Virginia School of Medicine - Spironolactone metabolite causes falsely increased progesterone in the Abbott Architect Immunoassay
Junyan Shi, University of British Columbia - Targeting Production of a Fast-Forming Proteotypic Peptide for Rapid Quantification of Apolipoprotein A1 in Plasma by LC-MS/MS
Shivani Sivasankar, University of Missouri - Use of National EHR Data Warehouse to Identify Inappropriate HbA1c Orders for Sickle-Cell Patients
Jeffrey SoRelle, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center - Impact of cross-sex hormone therapy on common laboratory tests in transmen and transwomen
Houman Tahmasebi, The Hospital for Sick Children - CALIPER Pediatric Reference Intervals for Siemens Biochemical Assays on ADVIA XPT and Dimension EXL with LM Integrated Chemistry Systems
Ambalika Tanak, University of Texas at Dallas - Electrochemical detection of Parathyroid hormone as a point-of-care testing device towards clinical applications
Stefani Thomas, Johns Hopkins University - Measurement of Thiopurine Metabolites in Erythrocytes to Optimize Thiopurine Therapy
Amanullah Zadran, UC Davis - Principles and Practice of Point-of-care Environmental Stress Testing: Static and Dynamic Robustness of a WBC-Differential Instrument and its Role in Detecting Highly Infectious Diseases
2018 Travel Grant Winners