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 Young
1,2, Jorge Amaya Catano
1, Gianluca Grenci
3, Kirsten Spann
1, and Yi-Chin Toh
1,2
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 Tian
1, Olivia M. Young
1, Molly A. Carton
1, Miroslaw Janowski
2, Dheeraj Gandhi
2, Mark Fuge
3, Axel Krieger
4, and Ryan D. Sochol
1
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 Kim
1,2, Xuening Zhang
1, Richard Wang
1, Adrian Najer
1, Qiao You Lau
1,2, Ana Cammack-Najera
1,2, Jang Ah Kim
1, Yoo Kyung Kang
1, Ruoxiao Xie
1, Hyemin Kim
1, Kai Xie
1,2, Hyeonji Lim
3, Tae-Eun Park
3, Jinmyoung Joo
3, and Molly M. Stevens
1,2
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 Blazeski
1,2, Jules Allbritton-King
1, Marie A. Floryan
2, Roger D. Kamm
2, Guillermo García-Cardeña
1
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. Yong
1, Alexandros A. Sklavounos
1,2, Omar I. Hajjaj
3,4, Chantal Armali
3, Julian Lamanna
1, Lenny Chen
1, Dimpy Modi
3,5, Jeannie L. Callum
3,4, Aaron R. Wheeler
1
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