Congratulations to the BIC 2022 Award Winners!
BIC 2022 Awards
August 20, 2022
Best Undergraduate Poster:
![Artury Ramirez Award Image](/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/2022-08/Awards_BIC_002.jpg?itok=8kk3IqyW)
Artury Ramirez Award Image
Artury Ramirez, UC Merced
"Determining if the Curvature of Nanocellulose Paper can Enhance the Yield of Giant Polymersomes"
![Janae Gayle Award Image](/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/2022-08/Awards_BIC_0161.jpg?itok=yJVY7Qp7)
Janae Gayle Award Image
Janae Gayle, UC Santa Barbara
"Data Analysis Using Sarcgraph Provides Insight on the Effects of Spermidine on Doxorubicin-treated Stem-cell Derived Cardiomyocytes"
Best Graduate/Post-Doc Poster:
![Abhishek Sharma Award Image](/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/2022-08/Awards_BIC_0041.jpg?itok=NFvqf_1u)
Abhishek Sharma Award Image
Abhishek Sharma, UC Santa Barbara
"Determining the independent contributions of ECM stiffness, stress relaxation and collagen fiber density to malignant phenotypes in breast cancer"
![Bijie Bai Image](/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/2022-08/photo_BijieBai2.jpg?itok=E02C-1Tx)
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Bijie Bai, UC Los Angeles
"Deep learning-enabled virtual immunohistochemical (IHC)
staining of label-free breast tissue sections"
![Christian Burns Award Image](/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/2022-08/Awards_BIC_0061.jpg?itok=AdTTiSgu)
Christian Burns Award Image
Christian Burns, UC Merced
"Von Hippel-Lindau Deletion in Osteocytes Disrupts Immune System Development and Vasculature Functionality in the Bone Marrow"
Best Graduate/Post-Doc Talk:
![Dr. Cheavar Blair Award Image](/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/2022-08/Awards_BIC_0071.jpg?itok=8gYtMZ34)
Dr. Cheavar Blair Award Image
Dr. Cheavar Blair, UC Santa Barbara
"The polyamine spermidine enhances the contractile force of µ-patterned single-cell stem-cell-derived cardiomyocytes post doxorubicin treatment"
![Conary Meyer Award Image](/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/2022-08/Awards_BIC_0101.jpg?itok=xLaGFvrm)
Conary Meyer Award Image
Conary Meyer, UC Davis
"Rapid and Predictive Membrane Protein Synthesis ex vivo"
Shu Chien Early Career Jury Awards:
Prof. Randy Carney
Biomedical Engineering, UC Davis
"Surface enhanced Raman scattering of extracellular vesicles: a new toolbox for clinical diagnostics"
https://carneylab.ucdavis.edu/
Prof. Siddarth Dey
Biological Engineering, UC Santa Barbara
"Developing integrated single-cell epigenome and transcriptome sequencing technologies to study early mammalian development"
http://deylab.com/
Shu Chien Early Career Award:
Prof. Daniela Valdez-Jasso
Bioengineering, UC San Diego
"From the pulmonary arteries to the right heart: a multi-scale approach to understanding pulmonary arterial hypertension"
http://dvj.ucsd.edu/
![Shu Chien Award Winners Image](/sites/default/files/styles/large_mobile/public/2022-08/Awards_BIC_0111.jpg?itok=JCH3IcgS)
Shu Chien Award Winners Image