2019 Massachusetts Life Sciences Innovation Day Research & Start-up Showcase – Poster Session
Poster competition-cash prizes for 3 best posters
A key goal of the event is an exchange of ideas. Our poster session will showcase fundamental advances in research so they can be seen by a broader audience. If you have a novel life sciences technology, consider applying to the poster competition. If selected, you will have space at the event to have a large poster on an easel. During breakouts, you will have the chance to talk to attendees about your technology. Attendees will have $300,000 of “MALSI money” to invest in those projects that are promising. The five posters with the most “MALSI money” investment will be selected as finalists. CEO judges will then select the winners of the poster competition. Awards will be $2500 for first place, $1000 for second place and $500 for third place.
2019 Presenters:
Broad Institute, Cheri Ackerman
Rapid and direct discovery of therapeutic microbial communities
Reveal Pharmaceuticals, Vera Hoffman
Gadolinium-free platform for general purpose and precision imaging (MRI)
Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, Ida Pavlichenko
Next-generation tympanostomy tubes
Ernest Pharmaceuticals, Nele Van Dessel
A bacterial delivery platform for tumor-specific intracellular drug delivery
University of New England, College of Pharmacy, Srinidi Mohan
A novel less-invasive blood-based marker for aggressive solid tumors
Advanced Silicon Group, Marcie Black
Silicon nanowire niosensors for rapid, low-cost, and multiplexed protein concentration measurements
UMass Lowell, Sashini Wijetunge
Cyclodextrin grafted lectin liposomes as co-drug delivery nanocarriers for the management of chronic oral infection
21st Biotech, Yizhuo Chen
Renovare, the bandage that could heal wounds faster
Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Yuhan Lee
Therapeutic Luminal Coating of the Intestine
Tufts University, Valencia Koomson
HemoSensis: Noninvasive, Real-time Monitoring of Tissue & Cerebral Oxygenation
Schepens Eye Research Institute (HMS)/ EYEnexo, Matteo Tomasi
Mobile image analytics for large scale eye care delivery
Northeastern University, Roger Giese
Home-based metabolomics
Organix, Inc., Ravi Ujjinamatada
Novel first-in-class ID1 inhibitors which are based on cannabinoid template to treat advanced stage cancers
Boston Children’s Hospital, Neha Nagpal
Therapeutic targeting of telomere diseases via novel small molecules
Alertgy, Marc Rippen
Non Invasive Continuous Glucose Monitor (NICGM) and Alert System
UMass Medical School, Amanda Fazzalari
Variable expression of circulating microRNAs in hibernating and active black bears
Children’s Hospital, Kun Zhou
A new orally available drug for the treatment of metastatic cancers
Casterbridge Pharmaceuticals, Bruce Rogers
Optimization of hydroxytropolones for Hepatitis B drug development
Savran Technologies, Kathryn Roy
Microchip systems for non-invasive whole-cell liquid biopsy
KinAptic, LLC, Joseph Curcio
Wearable “electroceuticals” for disease treatment and therapy
Harvard University, Shencheng Ge
MagLev for biomedical analysis: systems, chemistry, and applications
Tufts University, Shishir Rao
Aiding skin and oral cancer detection and documentation in rural regions
Harvard University/JetValve, Christophe Chantre
Heart valve replacements that grow and live with patients
Children’s Hospital Boston, Kaifeng Liu
Stitching and knotting device for surgery
MGH Cancer Center, Alena A. Chekmasova
CAR-37 T cell therapy development for treatment of patients with CD37+ hematological malignancies.
Wyss Institute at Harvard University, Oktay Uzun
Bio-inspired tough adhesives for wound healing and biosurgery applications
Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Pavel Terentiev
Next generation visualization and analysis for big biomedical data: Empowering Drug Discovery
Zata Pharmaceuticals, David Tabatadze
Transfusable blood purification system
Boston Children’s Hospital, Shira Rockowitz
3000 Exomes: Cohort Studies Advancing Pediatric Genomics
University of Massachusetts Amherst, Chungwen Liang
Revealing the inhibitory effect of small-molecule drugs on amyloid-forming peptides using computational modeling approaches
Due date has been extended! Poster applications can be found here and were due on June 7, 2019.
Do not include confidential information.
Your poster application must be accepted by the committee in order to present at the conference. Walk-ins will not be accepted the day of the conference.
MALSI Day 2018 Poster competition winners:
First place - Christopher Locher, CEO & Co-Founder, Versatope Therapeutics, Inc., “Extracellular Vesicle Platform to Deliver Vaccines and Therapeutics”
Second place - Alex Ng, Research Fellow, Wyss Institute, “Utilizing Transcription Factor-Mediated Engineering for Stem Cell Therapy Applications”
Third place - Raffi Aroian, Professor, UMass Medical School, “Acillis thuringiensis crystal protein probiotic cure for intestinal nematodes”