Travel Scholarships
Travel Scholarships – are available each year and based on the review and decision by the MIGS Abstract Review Committee.
Only one graduate student per principal investigator will be funded for travel during each 6 month period (Jan-June and July-Dec)
Application Form Here
Please send completed application, cover letter and abstract to: Dr. Satdarshan (Paul) Monga c/o Shari Tipton at tiptonsl@upmc.edu.
| Travel Scholarships | ||||||
Application Date |
Amount Awarded |
Name of Grantee |
Advisor |
Conference |
Date |
Location |
| 12/21/2006 | $400 | Mitra Lavasani | Johnny Huard | ORS 53rd Annual Meeting | February 11-14, 2007 | San Diego, CA |
| 01/24/2007 | $400 | Chris Shepard | Alan Wells | Experimental Biology 2007 Meeting | April 28-May 2, 2007 | Washington, DC |
| 01/24/2007 | $400 | Rebecca Long | Michael Sacks | Society for Biomaterials Meeting | April 18-21, 2007 | Chicago, IL |
| 01/24/2007 | $400 | Kari Nejak-Bowen | Paul Monga | Experimental Biology 2007 Meeting | April 28-May 2, 2007 | Washington, DC |
| 01/31/2007 | $400 | Julia Gefter | Russell Delude | Critical Care Medicine | February 17-21, 2007 | Orlando, FL |
| 02/12/2007 | $400 | Christi Kolarcik | Robert Bowser | Experimental Biology 2007 Meeting | April 28-May 2, 2007 | Washington, DC |
| 03/02/2007 | $400 | Alicia DeFail | Kacey Marra | Society for Biomaterials Meeting | April 18-21, 2007 | Chicago, IL |
| 03/15/2007 | $400 | Aron Parekh | Michael Sacks | Symposium on Avdvanced Wound Healing | April 28-May 1, 2007 | Tampa, FL |
| 03/16/2007 | $1,000 | Lauren Kokai | Kacey Marra | Advances in Tissue Engineering | August 15-18, 2007 | Houston, TX |
| 03/26/2007 | $400 | Timothy Maul | David Vorp | TERMIS-North America | June 13/17, 2007 | Toronto, Ontario |
| 04/05/2007 | $400 | Tiffany Sellaro | Steve Badylak | TERMIS-North America | June 13/17, 2007 | Toronto, Ontario |
| 03/16/2007 | $1,000 | Lauren Kokai | Kacey Marra | Advances in Tissue Engineering | August 15-18, 2007 | Houston, TX |
| 05/21/2007 | $1,000 | Bonnie Teng | Charles Sfeir | Advances in Tissue Engineering | August 15-18, 2007 | Houston, TX |
| 11/14/2007 | $500 | Bryan Brown | Steve Badylak | Tissue Eng. Int'l & Regen. Med. Society | Dec. 3-5, 2007 | Tokyo, Japan |
| 01/11/2008 | $400 | Mitra Lavasani | Johnny Huard | Orthopaedic Research Society | March 2-5, 2008 | |
| 02/05/2008 | $400 | Ellen Brennan | Stephen Badylak | World Biomaterials Congress | May 28-June 1, 2008 | Amsterdam |
| 02/13/2008 | $400 | Dana Olton | Prashant Kumta | Nat'l Society of Black Engineers Nat'l Convention | March 29-23, 2008 | Orlando, FL |
| 03/12/2008 | $400 | Corrine Kliment | Tim Oury | American Thoracic Society Int'l Conference | May 16-21, 2008 | Toronto, Ontario |
| 04/02/2008 | $400 | Bonnie Teng | Charles Sfeir | Int'l Soc. Of Stem Cell Research (ISSCR) | June 11-14, 2008 | Philadelphia, PA |
| 04/14/2008 | $400 | Tea Soon | Bruno Peault | Int'l Soc. Of Stem Cell Research (ISSCR) | June 11-14, 2008 | Philadelphia, PA |
| 04/28/2008 | $500 | Timothy Maul | David Vorp | Int'l Soc.for Applied Cardiovascular Biology (Young Investigator Award) |
Sept 17-20, 2008 | Bordeaux, France |
| 09/03/2008 | $400 | Judson Englert | Tim Oury | 15th Int'l Colloquium on Lung and Airway Fibrosis | Sept 28-Oct. 10, 2008 | Sunset Beach, NC |
| 09/08/2008 | $400 | Lauren Drowley | Johnny Huard | Tissue Eng Int'l & Regen Med Soc. (TERMIS NA 2008) | December 6-10, 2008 | San Diego, CA |
| 01/06/2009 | $400 | Christi Kolarcik | Robert Bowser | Experimental Biology/ASIP | April, 2009 | New Orleans, LA |
| 02/06/2009 | $500 | Natasa Miljikovic | Kacey Marra | 8th IRS World Congress | May 23-26, 2009 | Miami, FL |
| 06/24/2011 | $400 | Rohan Manohar | Paul Monga | 2011 ISSCR annual meeting | June 15-18, 2011 | Toronto, Canada |
| 08/15/2011 | $400 | Josh Wooley | Paul Monga | Gordon Research Conference on Assisted Circulation | June 12-17, 2011 | Waterville Valley, NH |
| 09/13/2011 | $400 | William Chen | Paul Monga | NHLBI Cardiovascular Regenerative Medicine Symposium | October 4-5, 2011 | Bethesda, Maryland |