{"667313":{"#nid":"667313","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Announcing the Recipients of the 2022-2023 Krish Roy \u2013 GRA Travel Awards ","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe Krish Roy - GRA Travel Award is a new travel award endowed by Professor Krishnendu Roy with funding provided by the Georgia Research Alliance (GRA). Roy is a Regents\u2019 Professor and the Robert A. Milton Endowed Chair in Biomedical Engineering. He also serves as Director of the NSF Engineering Research Center (ERC) for Cell Manufacturing Technologies (CMaT), the Marcus Center for Cell Therapy Characterization and Manufacturing (MC3M), and the Center for ImmunoEngineering.\u0026nbsp;The award was designed to support to IBB-affiliated undergraduate, graduate, and postdoctoral trainees conducting research in cell manufacturing, drug delivery, immunoengineering, and regenerative medicine.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ETen finalists (pictured left) were selected to receive a stipend to travel to a domestic or international conference or workshop to present their research work.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe Krish Roy\u0026nbsp;Travel\u0026nbsp;award allowed me to participate in my first conference of my\u0026nbsp;graduate school career.\u0022 said\u0026nbsp;Parisa Keshavarz-Joud.\u0026nbsp;\u0022I had the opportunity to present a poster on my research at the Physical Virology Gordon Research Conference in January 2023 and interact with experts in the field. This experience broadened my knowledge of the field and helped me in developing new ideas about the next steps of my project.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EElijah Holland used his award in January to attend the\u0026nbsp;Fibronectin Gordon Research Conference in Ventura, California. In expressing gratitude for the award, Holland shared that he was able to meet leaders in the cell adhesion field and gave his first oral research presentation, titled \u0022Mechanotransduction at Focal Adhesions: Interplay among Force, FAs, and YAP.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EFourth-year ChemE PhD student Hyun Jee Lee plans to use the award to her\u0026nbsp;support her first experience at an international seminar and conference, where she will present her research and connect with other researchers around the world. Lee\u0027s research focus is developing microfluidic tools to study cellular and molecular mechanisms in small organisms. \u0022I\u0027m particularly interested in investigating brain activity changes associated with learning in\u0026nbsp;C. elegans.\u0022 Lee explained. \u0022I\u0027m very\u0026nbsp;grateful to have received the award.\u0022\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAwardees (pictured from top left to right):\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EJohn Cox, Graduate Research Assistant, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EYarelis Gonzalez-Vargas, Graduate Student, Biomedical Engineering\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ETravis Rotterman, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow, Biological Sciences\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWenting Shi, Graduate Research Assistant, Chemistry and Biochemistry\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EKamisha Hill, Graduate Research Assistant, Chemistry and Biochemistry\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EParis Keshavarz-Joud, Graduate Research Assistant, Chemistry and Biochemistry\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EElijah Holland, Graduate Research Assistant, Mechanical Engineering\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EHun Jee Lee, Graduate Student, Chemical Engineering\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EMaeve Janecka,\u0026nbsp;Undergraduate Student, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESunny (Chao-yi) Lu, Graduate Research Assistant, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe Krish Roy - GRA Travel Award is a new travel award endowed by Professor Krishnendu Roy with funding provided by the Georgia Research Alliance (GRA). Roy is a Regents\u2019 Professor and the Robert A. Milton Endowed Chair in Biomedical Engineering. He also serves as Director of the NSF Engineering Research Center (ERC) for Cell Manufacturing Technologies (CMaT), the Marcus Center for Cell Therapy Characterization and Manufacturing (MC3M), and the Center for ImmunoEngineering.\u0026nbsp;The award was designed to support to IBB-affiliated undergraduate, graduate, and postdoctoral trainees conducting research in cell manufacturing, drug delivery, immunoengineering, and regenerative medicine.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ETen finalists (pictured left) were selected to receive a stipend to travel to a domestic or international conference or workshop to present their research work.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Spotlight on the recipients of the award"}],"uid":"36454","created_gmt":"2023-04-13 14:27:42","changed_gmt":"2023-05-16 21:30:54","author":"swilliamson40","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2023-04-13T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2023-04-13T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"670528":{"id":"670528","type":"image","title":"Final_GRA awardees.png","body":null,"created":"1681406289","gmt_created":"2023-04-13 17:18:09","changed":"1681406289","gmt_changed":"2023-04-13 17:18:09","alt":"Awardees pictured.","file":{"fid":"253407","name":"Final_GRA awardees.png","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/2023\/04\/13\/Final_GRA%20awardees.png","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/2023\/04\/13\/Final_GRA%20awardees.png","mime":"image\/png","size":2092506,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/2023\/04\/13\/Final_GRA%20awardees.png?itok=wdjus6Bz"}}},"media_ids":["670528"],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"1292","name":"Parker H. 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