2019 Student Travel Grant Winners
Lutao Du, PhD, The Second Hospital of Shandong University, Jinan, China — Expression Signatures of Exosomal Long Non-coding RNAs in Urine Serve as Novel Non-invasive Biomarkers for Diagnosis and Recurrence Prediction of Bladder Cancer
Christopher Farnsworth, PhD, Washington University, St. Louis, MO — Parameters for Validating a Hospital Pneumatic Tube System: Lessons Learned from Closing a Satellite Laboratory
Jeffrey SoRelle, BS, MD, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX — Long Term Effect of Hormone Therapy on Lab Values in Transgender Individuals
Katherine Turner, PhD, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN — Going Gel Free: Adding M-protein Quantitation to MASS-FIX in the Clinical Lab
2019 Student Abstract Recognition Award Recipients
Adina Badea, PhD, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA — A Validated, Rapid Method for Detecting a Broad Panel of Pain-management Drugs in Oral Fluid by High-resolution LC-MS/MS
Teofilo Borunda, TriCore Reference Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM — Clinical Laboratory Data Analytics for Identification and Progression of Non-alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease in New Mexico
Christopher Koch, BS, Cleveland State University, Seven Hills, OH — Evaluation of Drug Adsorption to the PIVO™ Needless Blood Collection Device
Anu Maharjan, PhD, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT — Contribution of Autoantibody Testing in the Evaluation of Patients At-risk of Interstitial Lung Disease
Vijayalakshmi Nandakumar, PhD, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN — Symmetric Dimethylarginine As An Alternative Marker For Estimation Of Glomerular Filtration Rate
Heather Paul, PhD, Alberta Public Laboratories, Calgary, AB, Canada — Pre-analytical Contamination of Pediatric and Newborn Urine Drug Screening Samples with Tributoxyethylphosphate
William Phipps, MD, University of Texas, Southwesters, Dallas, TX — Quantitative Amino Acid Analysis by LC-MS/MS using a Low-Cost Derivatization Approach and Automated Liquid Handler
Erin Schuler, PhD, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY — Checkmate: Evaluating the Cardio Check POC Device for Accurate Determination of Lipid Profiles and Cardiovascular Risk in Ambulatory Patients
Hana Vakili, PhD, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX — Complete Depletion of Residual Therapeutic Monoclonal Antibody Interference in Serum Samples from Multiple Myeloma Patients to Improve Detection of Endogenous M-proteins
Yu Zhang, MD, PhD, San Francisco General Hospital, San Francisco, CA — Investigate microRNA-122 to Identify Liver Injury in Patients with Rhabdomyolysis
Ling Zhong, MD, PhD, Sichuan Academy of Medical Sciences & Sichuan Provincial People’s Hospital, Chengdu, China — Circulating Long Noncoding RNA STAiR18 to Predict Disease Progression for Patients with Multiple Myeloma
2019 Travel Grant Winners