MIT Sloan BioInnovations Conference
February 22, 2013
Boston Marriott Cambridge Hotel
Kendall Square, Cambridge MA

Congratulations to the winners of the Poster Session

First Place: Ankit Agrawal for "Nasotracheal Intubation in a Difficult Airway using the Storz C-MAC Videolaryngoscope, a Novel Bougie Endotracheal Introducer, and a Modified Curved Forceps"

Second Place: Yechiel Engelhard and Mark Maalouf for "GeckoCap, Simple Asthma Management"

Third Place: Daniel Lieber and Steven Hershman for "Next-generation tools for clinical genome interpretation"

Poster Session

The poster session will showcase some of the most exciting life science and healthcare research from both undergraduate and graduate students from MIT, Harvard, and other universities. Conference registrants will have free access to this event.

These are some of the research that will be presented at this conference.

Macromolecular crowding and extracellular matrix organization,
Adam Zeiger, asz@mit.edu
SQWEEKi- The Simple, Safe, & Secure Mobile Application to Empower Sexual Health Information Sharing,
Agustin Mohedas, agustin@mit.edu
A semisynthetic approach towards divalent ligands regulate ErbB receptor family disregulation in cancer,
Andrew T. Krueger, akrueger@mit.edu
Nasotracheal Intubation in a Difficult Airway using the Storz C-MAC Videolaryngoscope, a Novel Bougie Endotracheal Introducer, and a Modified Curved Forceps,
Ankit Agrawal, ankita@andrew.cmu.edu
Smartphone Brain Scanner,
Arkadiusz Stopczynski, arks@mit.edu
A vector-free microfluidic platform for intracellular delivery,
Armon Sharei,armon@mit.edu
Methylated DNA Detection Using a Methyl-CpG Binding Protein and Photopolymerization-Based Amplification,
Brandon Heimer, bwheimer@mit.edu
Exaggeration and Omission in Press Releases from Proton Therapy Centers,
Chirayu Patel, cgp810@mail.harvard.edu
Wake-up to Bruxism,
Colas Schretter, cschrett@mit.edu
WiCare: Worldwide Innovative Healthcare - Breaking down the barriers for global medical devices,
Danielle Zurovcik, drz@mit.edu
Nightingale: Improving people's health by making it easier and more convenient to take medication,
David Goldman
Single-cell expression analyses during cellular reprogramming reveal an early stochastic and a late hierarchic phase,
Dina Faddah, dafaddah@mit.edu
Organ Cooling Device for Use in Minimally Invasive Surgery,
Edward Summers, esummers@mit.edu
A new-generation glycoconjugate vaccine designed by mechanistic knowledge,
Fikri Y. Avci, fikri_avci@hms.harvard.edu
Generation of clinically relevant hypothalamic neurons from human pluripotent stem cells,
Florian Merkle, fmerkle@fas.harvard.edu
Driving Value Into Health Care: Operationalized Plagiocephaly Care At Boston Children's Hospital,
Gino Inverso, gino.inverso@childrens.harvard.edu
Drug Discovery for Neurodevelopmental Disorders,
H. Rock Liao, rock1110@comcast.net
Engineering the microenvironment of cancer cell intravasation using microfluidics: role of cell-cell interactions and endothelial permeability,
Ioannis Zervantonakis, zervanto@mit.edu
A Cross-Clutural Comparison of Perceptions of Depression and Help-Seeking Behaviors,
Irene Zhang, ire.zhang@gmail.com
HEALTHeTalker: A Cloud-Based Health Communication System,
James Michaelson, JamesMichaelsonPhD@gmail.com
Tissue Scanner: A New Tool for Intraoperative Cancer Margin Assessment,
Jeon Woong Kang, jwkang76@mit.edu
Q-State Biosciences: Optical electrophysiology for drug discovery and toxicity,
Joel Kralj, joelkralj@gmail.com
Development of a Single-Cell Clonogenic Assay,
Katie Maass, kfmaass@mit.edu
Niche-based Screening Identifies Small-Molecule Inhibitors of Leukemia Stem Cells,
Kimberly Hartwell, PhD, hartwell@broadinstitute.org
Engineering Effective Revascularization Strategies for Ischemia in Diseased States,
Laura Indolfi, lindolfi@mit.edu
Genome Engineering Technology and its Applications in Disease Modeling,
Le Cong, cong@broadinstitute.org
NeuroAssess: Quantifying Neuromotor Performance,
Lily Kim, lily.kim@wyss.harvard.edu
NEWDIGS: A Unique Platform Fostering Ecosystem-driven Biomedical / Healthcare Innovation,
Magdalini Papadaki, magdapap@mit.edu
Better Vaccines. Better Future.,
Mahesh Narayanan, maheshnan@gmail.com
Identifying Personal Genomes by Surname Inference,
Melissa Gymrek, mgymrek@mit.edu
Career Network for Science PhDs at Yale,
Michael Bradley, michael.bradley@yale.edu
Chronic mGluR5 inhibition corrects Fragile X phenotypes in mice,
Michael Sidorov, msidorov@mit.edu
Dulce Detector™ - Nanosensor Array for On-line Analytics of Antibody Quality and Glycosylation in Biomanufacturing,
Nigel Reuel, reuel@mit.edu
doseOK: getting the "five rights" right,
Pau Soler, pau.soler@doseok.com
Engineered Microneedles for Enhanced Transcutaneous Vaccine Delivery,
Peter DeMuth, pcdemuth@mit.edu
An Algorithmic Approach to Protein Expression,
Pravin Kumar, prav.kumar@gmail.com
Bioskiving: Bioinspired Fabrication of Nanostructures from Tissue Slices,
Qiaobing Xu, qiaobing.xu@tufts.edu
Developing an IgE Sequestering Peptide to treat Diabetes,
Raja Srinivas
Ghrelin: a key mediator of the response to chronic stress,
Retsina Meyer
Micromechanics of the Mammalian Tectorial Membrane,
Shirin Farrahi
Novel small-molecule suppressors of cytokine-induced beta-cell apoptosis for the treatment of type 1 diabetes,
Stephen Scully
Kinetic analysis of nitrosative deamination of RNA in human cells exposed to nitrosative stress,
Vasileios Dendroulakis, vdendrou@mit.edu
GeckoCap, Simple Asthma Management,
Yechiel Engelhard, engelhard@sloan.mit.edu
Direct Reprogramming of Fibroblasts into Embryonic Sertoli-like Cells by Defined Factors,
Yossi Buganim, yossib@wi.mit.edu
Customizable discharge and patient tracking: A case study in asthma care,
Yuri Ostrovsky, yo@alum.mit.edu
Single-cell monitoring of the cytolytic and secretory activity of natural killer cells in arrays of nanowells,
Yvonne Yamanaka, yvonney@mit.edu
Novel Approach in Utilization of Raman Spectroscopy for Automated Prostate Cancer Diagnostics,
Sinisa Vukelic, PhD, Founder and CEO of SiDaLuk, LLC, sinisa@sidaluk.com
Next-generation tools for clinical genome interpretation,
Daniel Lieber, dlieber@fas.harvard.edu