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Lab on a Chip and ALine Pioneers of Miniaturization Lectureship
Anderson Shum
City University Hong Kong, HONG KONG

Springer Nature Test of Time Award
Shoji Takeuchi
University of Tokyo, JAPAN

CBMS Young Innovator Award
Hnin Yin Yin Nyein
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, HONG KONG

NIST and Lab on a Chip - Art in Science Award
Utku Devamoglu
University of Twente, NETHERLANDS
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"WHEN CELLS DANCE, SCIENCE MEETS SPIRITUALITY, WHIRLING DERVISHES" - An immunofluorescence image of human umbilical vein endothelial cells (HUVECs) showing 3D angiogenic sprouting toward a vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF)-supplemented channel.


Biomicrofluidics Best Paper Award

DIGITAL BROWNIAN AFFINITY TRAP ELISA TECHNOLOGY ENABLES RAPID 5-MIN TEST WITH ULTRASENSITIVE, ATTOMOLAR QUANTIFICATIONS OF IL-4 AND INFLUENZA A
Geunyong Kim, Molly L. Shen, Andy Ng, and David Juncker
McGill University, CANADA

DYNAMIC INTERFACE PRINTING: A HIGH-THROUGHPUT APPROACH FOR BIOCOMPATIBLE STRUCTURE FABRICATION USING AN ACOUSTICALLY MODULATED AIR-LIQUID BOUNDARY
Callum Vidler1, Michael Halwes1, Kirill Kolesnik1, Philipp Segeritz1, Matthew Mail1, Anders J. Barlow1, Emmanuelle M. Koehl2, Anand Ramakrishnan2, Daniel J. Scott1, Daniel E. Heath1, Kenneth B. Crozier1, and David J. Collins1
1University of Melbourne, AUSTRALIA and 2Royal Melbourne Hospital, AUSTRALIA

MICROFLUIDIC ASSEMBLY OF CHARGE-TUNED PROTOCELLS FOR RAPID PHENOTYPING OF PATHOGENIC BACTERIA
Mamata Karmacharya, Jiyun Han, Sumit Kumar, and Yoon-Kyoung Cho
Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), KOREA

Elsevier Sensors and Actuators B. Chemical Best Paper Award
A PARALLELIZED MICROFLUIDIC PLATFORM FOR ROBUST AND SCALABLE INTRACELLULAR DELIVERY
Qingluan Liu, Aram J. Chung
Korea University, KOREA

Microsystems & Nanoengineering / Springer Nature Best Oral Award

First Place
A COMPARTMENTALISED MICROFLUIDIC COCULTURE MODEL FOR MEASURING DYNAMIC SINGLE-CELL IMMUNE RESPONSES TO AIRWAY INFECTION
Lucy-May Young1,2, Jorge Amaya Catano1, Gianluca Grenci3, Kirsten Spann1, and Yi-Chin Toh1,2
1Queensland University of Technology (QUT), AUSTRALIA, 2Max Planck Queensland Centre for the Materials Science of Extracellular Matrices, AUSTRALIA, and 3Mechanobiology Institute, SINGAPORE

Runners-Up
A 3D-PRINTED PILLAR-BASED MICROELECTRODE ARRAY FOR PARALLEL RECORDING OF CORTICAL SPHEROIDS
Hwisoo Kim, Dongjo Yoon, Yoonkey Nam, and Je-Kyun Park
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), KOREA

Runners-Up
3D-MICROPRINTED HIGH-ASPECT-RATIO MICROFLUIDIC TUBING VIA TWO-PHOTON DIRECT LASER WRITING
Linda Tian1, Olivia M. Young1, Molly A. Carton1, Miroslaw Janowski2, Dheeraj Gandhi2, Mark Fuge3, Axel Krieger4, and Ryan D. Sochol1
1University of Maryland, College Park, USA, 2University of Maryland, Baltimore, USA, 3ETH Zürich, SWITZERLAND, and 4Johns Hopkins University, USA

Runners-Up
MODELING MYOCARDIAL ISCHEMIA WITH VASCULARIZED HUMAN HEART-ON-A-CHIP TO ANALYZE NANOMEDICINE DELIVERY
Junyoung Kim1,2, Xuening Zhang1, Richard Wang1, Adrian Najer1, Qiao You Lau1,2, Ana Cammack-Najera1,2, Jang Ah Kim1, Yoo Kyung Kang1, Ruoxiao Xie1, Hyemin Kim1, Kai Xie1,2, Hyeonji Lim3, Tae-Eun Park3, Jinmyoung Joo3, and Molly M. Stevens1,2
1Imperial College, London, UK, 2University of Oxford, UK, 3Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), KOREA

Lab on a Chip - Widmer Poster Award
LIBRARY PREPARATION AUTOMATION USING CENTRIFUGAL MICROFLUIDICS FOR INTRAOPERATIVE BRAIN TUMOR CLASSIFICATION FROM SPARSE EPIGENOMIC DATA
Caitlin Turney1, Nils Paust1,2, Tobias Hutzenlaub1,2, and Jacob Hess1,2
1Hahn-Schickard, GERMANY and 2University of Freiburg, GERMANY

CHEMINAS - Young Researcher Poster Award

ESTABLISHMENT OF AN IPSC-DERIVED BLOOD-BRAIN BARRIER (BBB) MODEL FOR INVESTIGATION OF DENGUE VIRUS (DENV) INFECTION
Meixuan Yang1 , Kazuya Fujimoto1, Rina Hashimoto2, Kazuo Takayama2, Toshiki Kurosawa3, Yoshiyuki Kubo3, Yoshiharu Deguchi3, and Ryuji Yokokawa1
1Kyoto University, JAPAN, 2Institute of Science, Tokyo, JAPAN, and 3Teikyo University, JAPAN

RAPID EVALUATION OF BACTERIAL CELL PERMEABILIZATION WITH A PMMA-BASED SCREENING DEVICE
Charmaine Nieves, Po-Hsun Huang, and Cullen R. Buie
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA

LYMPHATIC VESSEL-ON-A-CHIP FOR PROSTATE CANCER METASTASIS PREDICTION VIA TUMOR-DERIVED EXTRACELLULAR VESICLES
Jooyoung Ro and Yoon-Kyoung Cho
Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), KOREA

IMT Masken und Teilungen AG Microfluidics on Glass Poster Award
MONITORING DISPLACEMENT AND MORPHOLOGY OF C. ELEGANS ON A MICROFLUIDIC CHIP BY ELECTRICAL IMPEDANCE TOMOGRAPHY
Jianwei Ouyang1, Song Yu1, Jiaqi Liu1, Yulu Geng1, Wenbo Chen1, Yupan Wu1, Di Chen2, Zixin Wang3, Zhen Zhu1
1Southeast University, CHINA, 2Zhejiang University, CHINA, and 3Sun Yat-sen University, CHINA

Sensors (MDPI) - Outstanding Sensors and Actuators, Detection Technologies Poster Award
A JANUS PARTICLE-BASED ASSAY FOR ORAL SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA DETECTION VIA SALIVARY EXTRACELLULAR VESICLES
Thi Thanh Huong Pham1, Wei-Fan Chiang2, and Han-Sheng Chuang1
1National Cheng Kung University, TAIWAN and 2Chi-Mei Medical Center, TAIWAN

Acousticfluidics Society Award
ACOUSTOPHORESIS-BASED PARTICLE FOCUSING FOR CONTINUOUS FEMTOSECOND TRANSIENT ABSORPTION MICROSCOPY OF FRAGILE SAMPLES
Sota Shiomi1, Shuto Ueda2, Tetsuro Katayama2, and Akihiro Isozaki1
1Ritsumeikan University, JAPAN and 2Tokushima University, JAPAN

Medical Advances Without Animals Trust (MAWA) Poster Award
VORTEX-BASED PRODUCTION OF UNIFORM HOLLOW-CORE AGAROSE CAPSULES FOR MULTISCALE AND HIGH-THROUGHPUT 3D CULTURE GENERATION AND DIFFERENTIATION
Ruri Maekawa1, Kazuki Hattori1, Hiromi Kirisako1, Yuichiro Iwamoto1, Fumiko Kawasaki1,3, Takeshi Yoneshiro1,2, Juro Sakai1,2, Nobuhiko Hamazaki4, and, Sadao Ota1
1University of Tokyo, JAPAN, 2Tohoku University, JAPAN, 3RIKEN, JAPAN, 4University of Washington, USA