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On behalf of the Evaluation Committee, we are pleased to announce the two winners of the 2018 Gels Travel Award, who will receive 400 CHF each towards their travel expenses to participate at an international conference in 2018.
The 2018 Gels Travel Award have been granted to:
Dr. Daniela Filipa Duarte Campos, a postdoctoral researcher at RWTH Aachen University Hospital, Germany. Her research focuses on novel challenging aspects in the field of hydrogel-based 3D bioprinting. She will present novel findings obtained during her postdoctoral work related to cell-loaded hydrogel 4D bioprinting at the 2018 International Conference on Biofabrication, which will be held in Würzburg, Germany, from 28-31 October, 2018.
And Dr. Maria M. Pérez-Madrigal, a Marie-Curie Fellow at the University of Birmingham, UK. Her research focus is on developing polymer-based hydrogels as scaffolds for load-bearing soft tissue regeneration. She will present her work as a poster at the 29th Annual Meeting of the European Society for Biomaterials (ESB2018), which will take place from 9–13 September 2018 in Maastricht, the Netherlands.
It was a very difficult decision with such high-quality applications for the award, and we would like to thank all the applicants in various fields of study for their participation and all of the Award Committee members for their evaluation of the abundant excellent applications. Congratulations to the winners on their accomplishments!
Prof. Dr. David Díaz Díaz Chair of the Evaluation Committee Editor-in-Chief of Gels
Gels 2018 Travel Award
Past Winners
Year:
Winner
Ana Iglesias-Mejuto
1. University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain.
2. University of Lisbon, Portugal.
Award Committee
Prof. Dr. Esmaiel Jabbari
Chairperson
University of South Carolina
Dr. Song He
Prof. Dr. Željka Vanić
Faculty of Pharmacy and Biochemistry,University of Zagreb
Dr. Dino J. Ravnic
Dr. Jiangtao Zhou
Winner
Se-Hyeong Jung
Laboratory for Soft Materials and Interfaces, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Award Committee
Prof. Dr. Esmaiel Jabbari
Chairperson
University of South Carolina
Prof. Dr. Filippo Rossi
Politecnico di Milano
Dr. Song He
Dr. Mohsen Akbari
University of Victoria
Prof. Dr. Chi Wang
Department of Chemical Engineering, National Cheng Kung University
Prof. Dr. Željka Vanić
Faculty of Pharmacy and Biochemistry,University of Zagreb
Prof. Pavel Gurikov
Hamburg University of Technology, Laboratory for Development and Modelling of Novel Nanoporous Materials
Winner
Maria Vivero Lopez
University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Award Committee
Prof. Dr. David Díaz Díaz
Chairperson
Dr. Song He
Prof. Dr. Filippo Rossi
Politecnico di Milano
Prof. Charalampos Proestos
National and kapodistrian University of Athens
Dr. Michel Vert
CNRS - University of Montpellier
Winner
Lan Xiao
Queensland University of Technology, Australia
Winner
Demetra Giuri
University of Bologna
Martina Genta
Imperial College London
Award Committee
Prof. Dr. David Díaz Díaz
Chairperson
Prof. David Schiraldi
Case Western Reserve University
Prof. Dirk Kuckling
Paderborn University
Winner
Pasquale Sacco
University of Trieste
Ana Casanova Martínez
POR2E group, CEMHTI (UPR 3079), CNRS, University of Orléans, 45071, Orléans, France
Award Committee
Prof. Dr. David Díaz Díaz
Chairperson
Winner
Daniela Filipa Duarte Campos
RWTH Aachen University Hospital
Dr. Maria M. Pérez-Madrigal
University of Birmingham, UK
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