Congratulations to the 2024 travel award recipients!
CAROL BRIGGS TOP SCORING ABSTRACT AWARD
Margot Cornette, Coagulation Laboratory, Ghent University Hospital, Gent, Belgium
"ADAMTS13 activity testing: evaluation of two automated platforms for diagnosis and follow-up of Thrombotic Thrombocytopenic Purpura (TTP)"
BEREND HOUWEN AWARD
Mani Bhargava, GTB Hospital, Kanpur, India
"Development and characterization of novel nanoparticulate carrier for oral delivery of low molecular weight heparin"
Ping Guo, Department of Clinical Laboratory Medicine, Ruijin Hospital affiliated to Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China
"Machine Learning Models for Distinguishing Iron Deficiency Anemia from Thalassemia Trait Using Advanced Erythrocyte Indices"
Manu Jamwal, Department of Hematology, Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India
"Suspected congenital dyserythropoietic anemias: Impact of next-generation sequencing-based genetic testing on the diagnosis and treatment"
Yi Ye, Department of Laboratory Medicine, Xiangya School of Medicine, Central South University, Changsha, China
"A Novel Fluorescent Reagent Intergrated in Hematology Analyzers for Malaria Diagnosis and Treatment Monitoring"
Bin Zhao, Clinical Department (IVD), Shenzhen Mindray Bio-Medical Electronics Co., Ltd, Shenzhen, China
"RBC-ConvNet: A Novel One-Stage Object Detection Network for Enhanced Classification of 21 Abnormal Red Blood Cell Types in Digital Morphology Analysis"
TRAINEE TRAVEL AWARD
Regan Bucciol, Department of Biomedical and Molecular Sciences, School of Medicine, Kingston, ON, Canada
"Evaluating Predictive Tools for Thrombosis Risk Assessment in Breast Cancer - Unmet Need"
Xavier Tejedor Ganduxé, Clinical Laboratory, Core-Hematology Department. Germans Trias i Pujol University Hospital, Badalona, Spain
"The role of Erythrocyte Sedimentation Rate (ESR) in lymphoproliferative disorders: Comparison between Mindray BC-780 and Westergren method"
Youra, Tera, Department of Biomedical and Molecular Sciences, School of Medicine, Queen's University, Kingston, ON, Canada, and Faculty of Medicine, Mansoura University, Mansoura, Egypt
"ABO blood groups, hypercoagulability and thrombosis risk in women with cancer undergoing chemotherapy"
Vinita Thakur, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine Program, NLHS, St John's, NL, Canada, and Department of Laboratory Medicine, Memorial University, St John's, NL, Canada
"Multisite installation of new CBC analyzer “Sight OLO” for the rural communities of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada"
YOUNG INVESTIGATOR AWARD
Rifaldy Fajar, Computational Biology and Medicine Laboratory, Yogyakarta State University, Sleman, Indonesia
"Machine Learning-Driven Diagnosis of Hemoglobin E Disorders: Utilizing Automated Hematology Analyzers for Precise Morphological Identification in Southeast Asia"
Violaine Tran Quang, Département d'hématologie et d'immunologie biologiques - Hôpital Henri Mondor, Créteil, France, and Université Paris Est Créteil - Inserm U955 - IMRB, Créteil, France
"Russian doll-like clonal architecture leading to the emergence of three hematological malignancies treated by dual-targeted therapy"