Society For Basic Urologic Research
Society for Basic Urologic Research
Travel Awards

The Program Committee of the Society for Basic Urologic Research goes through a careful deliberation and selection process, reviewing numerous abstracts. We are pleased to acknowledge the Travel Award Recipients:

2010 Travel Award Recipients

Congxing Lin, PhD
Washington University

David DeGraff, PhD
Vanderbilt University

David Barron, BS
Baylor College of Medicine

Aruna Ramachandran, PhD
Children's Hospital Boston

Brian Simons, DVM
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

Zongwei Wang, PhD
Massachusetts General Hospital

Gina CY Chu
Georgia State University; Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

Chiuan-Ren Yeh, PhD
University of Rochester

Jessica Havercamp
Purdue University

Kaijie Wu, MD, PhD Candidate
UT Southwestern

Hifzur Siddique, MS, PhD
University of Minnesota

Sachin Bhusari, PhD
University of Wisconsin

Shareen Iqbal
Emory University

Tanisha Hutchinson, MS
Medical University of South Carolina

Michelle Jones, BS
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

Liquan Cai, PhD
University of Pittsburgh

Kalyan Gangavarapu, PhD
Roswell Park Cancer Institute

Omar Franco
Underserved Minority Travel Award
Vanderbilt University

Jelani Zarif
Underserved Minority Travel Award
Michigan State Unversity

Conrad Valdez, BS
Underserved Minority Travel Award
University of Michigan

Freddie Pruitt
Underserved Minority Travel Award
Vanderbilt University


2009 Travel Award Recipients

Petra Massoner, PhD
Medical University Innsbruck, Austria

Travis Jerde, PhD
Indiana University School of Medicine

Sathish Kasina, PhD
University of Michigan

Diego Iglesias Gato, PhD
Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden

Raj Kumar, PhD
University of Kentucky

Zhiyong Liao, PhD
Thomas Jefferson University

Dongxia Ge, MD
Tulane University; Sichuan University, Chengdu, China

Rongbin Ge, MD, PhD
Massachusetts General Hospital

Diogo Escudero, BS
University of Miami

Tunde Akinyeke, BS
Meharry Medical College

Kristi Hoffman
Baylor College of Medicine

Helal Biswas, PhD
University of Massachusetts Medical School

Yu Zeng, PhD, MD
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

Gerald Verhaegh, PhD
Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

Tristan Nicholson, BS
University of Rochester Medical Center

Matthew Tanner, PhD
Ordway Research Institute

Devangini Gandhi, MS
Columbia University

Daxing Xie, MD, PhD
UT Southwestern

Shuanzeng Wei, BM, PhD
Johns Hopkins Hospital


2008 Travel Award Recipients

Srinivas Koduru, PhD
University of Kentucky

Suresh Veeramani, PhD
University of Nebraska Medical Center

Dolores Di Vizio, MD, PhD
Children’s Hospital-Boston

Sanjeev Shukla, PhD
University Hospitals Case Medical Center

Hana Odeh, PhD
University of Michigan Medical School

David S. Finley, MD
UC Irvine

Rongbin Ge, MD, PhD
Massachusetts General Hospital

Simon Haile, PhD
Genome Sciences Centre, British Columbia Cancer Research Centre

Shyh-Han Tan, PhD 
Center for Prostate Disease Research

Hong Pu, PhD
University of Kentucky

Nagalakshmi Nadiminty, PhD
UC Davis Medical Center

Manisha Tripathi, MS
Vanderbilt University

Sazzad Hassan, MD, PhD
University of Massachusetts Medical School

Roger Jackson, PhD
Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center

Kathryn M. Gonyea
University of Pittsburgh

Xiang Zhang, PhD
University of Cincinnati

Judit Ribas, PhD
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

Veronica Yao, PhD
University of Pittsburgh

Ming Chen, MS
University of Rochester

Govindaraj Anumanthan, PhD
Vanderbilt University

Victoria L Robinson, PhD
University of Chicago


2006 Travel Award Recipients

Mingfang Ao PhD
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Barbara Comuzzi PhD
Genome Sciences Center

Abdo Najy BS
University of Michigan

Beverly Barton PhD
University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey

David DeGraff BS
University of Delaware

Douglas Strand BS
Baylor College of Medicine

Hongyun Li MD, PhD
Center for Prostate Disease Research

Marilyn Lamm PhD
Children's Memorial Research Center

J. Erin Tillman BS
Vanderbilt University

Bekir Cinar, PhD
Children’s Hospital - Boston

Srinivas Nandana MS
Vanderbilt University

Jonathan Levitt PhD
Baylor College of Medicine

Vivian Fu MS
University of Wisconsin-Madison

Veronica Placencio BS
Vanderbilt University

Adebusola Alagbala, BS
Roswell Park Cancer Institute

Geun Taek Lee, PhD
Division of Urologic Oncology, The Cancer Institute of New Jersey

Kenichiro Ishii, PhD
Mie University Graduate School of Medicine, Mie, Japan

Freddie L. Pruitt, III
University of Delaware

Lara Collier, MD
University of Minnesota

Arundhati Ghosh, PhD
Cleveland Clinic Foundation