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MINE Best Oral Award

The MicroTAS Conference is pleased to announce the Best Oral Award sponsored by MINE to recognize the four best oral presentations at the MicroTAS Conference.

Selection Process
A committee will select twelve (12) presentations from the best abstracts submitted to the conference, based on the grades by the Technical Program Committee (TPC). Papers chosen for other awards presented at the conference, will be excluded from the “MINE Best Oral Award”.

Presenters
Presenters must be postdocs, Ph.D. Students, or Master students. PIs are excluded.

Award Winners Will Receive
  • $1000 for 1st Place; $500 for 2nd - 4th Place
  • An Award Certificate
  • Formal Recognition on the Last Day of the Conference
  • Invited to Send an Article to the Journal
Past Winners

MicroTAS 2025 Conference, Adelaide, AUSTRALIA

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

MicroTAS 2024 Conference, Montréal, CANADA

First Place
A MICROFLUIDIC TRANSISTOR FOR AUTOMATIC CONTROL OF LIQUIDS
Kaustav A. Gopinathan, Avanish Mishra, Baris R. Mutlu, Jon F. Edd, Mehmet Toner
Massachusetts General Hospital, USA

Runners-Up
FLOW IN A VASCULARIZED HEART-ON-A-CHIP MODEL
Adriana Blazeski1,2, Jules Allbritton-King1, Marie A. Floryan2, Roger D. Kamm2, Guillermo García-Cardeña1
1Brigham and Women's Hospital / Harvard Medical School, USA and 2 Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA

Runners-Up
MICROFLUIDICS PLATFORM FOR RAPID BLOOD TYPING
Anthony K.C. Yong1, Alexandros A. Sklavounos1,2, Omar I. Hajjaj3,4, Chantal Armali3, Julian Lamanna1, Lenny Chen1, Dimpy Modi3,5, Jeannie L. Callum3,4, Aaron R. Wheeler1
1University of Toronto, CANADA, 2Blue Ocean Technologies Inc., CANADA, 3Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, CANADA, 4Queen's University, CANADA, and 5McMaster University, CANADA

Runners-Up
RETINAL TREATMENT EVALUATION AFTER TRANSCORNEAL ELECTRICAL STIMULATION BASED ON A WIRELESS CONTACT
Ding Shen
Tsinghua University, China

MicroTAS 2023 Conference, Katowice, POLAND

First Place
HYBRID BIOFABRICATION OF MULTILAYERED HIGH-RESOLUTION CONSTRUCTS USING NATURAL AND LOW-VISCOSITY BIOINKS
Soo Jee Kim
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, KOREA (ROK)

Runners-Up
NEURAL STEM CELL SINGLE-CELL ISOLATION USING THE OPTOELECTRONIC MICROROBOT
Mohamed Elsayed
University of Toronto, CANADA

POINT-OF-CARE NUCLEIC ACID TESTING WITH A ONE-STEP BRANCHED DNA-BASED BIOSENSOR
Xueqi Wang
Tsinghua University, CHINA

ENGINEERING AUTOLOGOUS VASCULARIZED THROMBUS IMPLANTS FOR ENHANCING CUTANEOUS WOUND HEALING
Su Hyun Jung
Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), KOREA (ROK)

MicroTAS 2022 Conference, Hangzhou, China and Virtual

First Place
MAGNETICALLY ACTUATED GLAUCOMA DRAINAGE DEVICE FOR REGULATING INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE AFTER IMPLANTATION
Inês C.F. Pereira
Eindhoven University of Technology, NETHERLANDS

Runners-Up
FREESTANDING, MULTILAYERED AND BIOMIMETIC VASCULATURE-ON-A-CHIP MODEL BY 3D-PRINTED POROUS MOLD
Terry Ching
Singapore University of Technology and Design, SINGAPORE

SCALABLE BACTERIAL ELECTROPORATION ENABLED BY A LOW COST, FABRICATION-FREE, DISPOSABLE MICROFLUIDIC DEVICE
Po-Hsun Huang
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA

A HIGH-THROUGHPUT MULTIPLEXED MICROFLUIDIC DEVICE FOR COVID-19 SEROLOGY ASSAYS
Roberto Rodriguez-Moncayo
Cinvestav, MEXICO

MicroTAS 2021 Conference, Palm Springs, USA

First Place
SELECTIVE EXTRACTION OF BIOMOLECULES USING A BIDIRECTIONAL FLOW FILTER
Vesna Bacheva
IBM Research Europe, SWITZERLAND

Runners-Up
FREESTANDING, MULTILAYERED AND BIOMIMETIC VASCULATURE-ON-A-CHIP MODEL BY 3D-PRINTED POROUS MOLD
Terry Ching
Singapore University of Technology and Design, SINGAPORE

SCALABLE BACTERIAL ELECTROPORATION ENABLED BY A LOW COST, FABRICATION-FREE, DISPOSABLE MICROFLUIDIC DEVICE
Po-Hsun Huang
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA

A HIGH-THROUGHPUT MULTIPLEXED MICROFLUIDIC DEVICE FOR COVID-19 SEROLOGY ASSAYS
Roberto Rodriguez-Moncayo
Cinvestav, MEXICO