SLAS Scientific Director Lesley Mathews, Ph. D., speaks with several winners of our Tony B. Travel Award who presented at the SLAS Europe 2024 Conference and Exhibition.
Congratulations to our winners!
(Listed in interview order)
Shitanshu Devrani, Ph.D. (University of Gothenburg)
An Automated High-Throughput Platform for AI-Guided Development of Nanopore Membrane Biosensors and Real-time Edge Processing, Demonstrated with Wilson's Disease Sample Verification
Leticia Manen, Ph.D. (Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute)
Harnessing Drug Metabolites In Precision Medicine: Deeping into antineoplastic’s major metabolites polypharmacology
Joel Sanchez Barea, Ph.D. Candidate (Incheon National University)
Multiplexed detection of single-point mutations in human serum by integrating Surface Enhanced Raman Scattering with Polymerase Chain Reaction.
What is the Tony B. Travel Award?
This annual travel grant program provides funding for the SLAS International Conference and Exhibition and the SLAS Europe Conference and Exhibition for students, graduate students, post-doctoral associates, and junior faculty with less than four years in their first academic appointments.
Visit our Student Resources to learn more about these awards.
Stay connected with SLAS
SLAS (Society for Laboratory Automation and Screening) is an international professional society of academic, industry and government life sciences researchers and the developers and providers of laboratory automation technology. The SLAS mission is to bring together researchers in academia, industry and government to advance life sciences discovery and technology via education, knowledge exchange and global community building. For more information about SLAS, visit www.slas.org.
SLAS publishes two peer-reviewed and MEDLINE-indexed scientific journals, SLAS Discovery and SLAS Technology. For more information about SLAS and its journals, visit slas.org
Upcoming SLAS Events:
SLAS Europe 2025 Conference and Exhibition
- 20-22 May 2025
- Hamburg, Germany
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