Awards
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Sri is awarded the CSME Gold Medal!
Sri has been awarded the prestigious Canadian Society for Mechanical Engineering (CSME) Gold Medal for her PhD research! The gold medal is awarded to the top-performing student in a Canadian University for outstanding academic achievement in the field of Mechanical Engineering.
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Congratulations to Marissa and mentee Nitya Johar for winning the 2025 Genes In Space contest!
Nitya’s proposed experiment studying codon usage bias will launch in 2026 to be performed aboard the International Space Station. Thank you miniPCR bio and Boeing for this incredible opportunity!
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Open Philanthropy will support our collaboration with the Bhatia lab!
Pneumonia is the leading cause of death among children worldwide, accounting for 14% of deaths among those under age five. We are working in a multi-lab collaboration to develop a non-invasive, accessible platform to diagnose pediatric pneumonia in under-resourced areas. More on this here.
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Tadesse Lab receives research funding from Google
Thank you Google for funding our work on enabling on device portable AI systems to fuel the analysis needs for our deployable devices. Looking forward to our collaboration.
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MIT Research Support Council to support our work!
Thank you MIT RSC for providing our initial funding in enabling next generation diagnostics with Raman.
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Marissa wins the NSF GRFP
Congratulations Marissa! The NSF GRFP will support 3 years of her study and provide access to an amazing network of scholars.
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Loza named Forbes 30 under 30 Healthcare 2022
View Loza’s Forbes profile here