Past Winners

2024 Recipients of the Karen M. Mudry Achievement Award

Presenter Poster Title
Best Graduate Poster 1st place (tie)
Rubia Shaik
The University of Akron 
“Fabrication of Injectable Granular Hydrogel using Cardiac Extracellular Matrix”
Best Graduate Poster 1st place (tie)
Layan Hamidi Nia
Cleveland State University / Cleveland Clinic Foundation 
“Encapsulation of Engineered Microbes in Hydrogel Beads for Targeted Delivery”
Best Graduate Poster 2nd place
Jacob Heiss
The University of Akron 
“Automated Analysis of Extracellular Matrix Invasion of Cancer Cells from Tumor Spheroids”
Best Graduate Poster 3rd place
Ebrahim Tajik
The University of Akron 
“Synthesis of Polyglycerol Dodecanoate (PGD) for Biomedical Applications”
Best Undergraduate Poster
Emma Barna
The University of Akron
“Effects of PKH67 Dye on L929 Mouse Fibroblast Cells”