Best Poster Awards

Three posters will be selected for the M. Ghaderi Award, UCLA-CTSI Science Translational Award, and Micromachines Best Poster Award. The winners will be given a commemorative certificate and a monetary prize of $1000 each. Abstract submission is due on May 1, 2019.

Eligibility and application
The applicant should (i) be an undergraduate or graduate student, a postdoctoral scholar or a scientist (ii) submit a title and an abstract upon registration, (iii) register and attend the conference, and (iv) present the poster.

The poster surface area is 36 inches high and 48 inches wide. Please prepare your poster with 2 inches margin on each side. Poster boards and tacks will be available on-site for installation. All accepted entries will be notified by the committee regarding the schedule of installation and presentation. Poster exhibit dates are on July 9-12, 2019. All winners will be awarded at the closing remarks to be delivered by Prof. Ali Khademhosseini on July 12, 2019.

2018 Awardees

Mohammad Mofidfar (Georgia Institute of Technology) for the UCLA-CTSI Translational Science Award 2018 Winner.
“Design, structure, material strength of dissolvable microneedle patch vaccine delivery systems: From fabrication to characterization of microscale transdermal patches”

Joseph De Rutte (UCLA) for the Masoumeh Ghaderi Award 2018 Winner.
“Rapid production of highly tunable microgels for in situ assembly of tissue scaffolds”