Shalu Suri, a graduate student in Dr. Christine Schmidt's Molecular Tissue Engineering Lab, has just been informed that she is the recipient of a STAR (Student Travel Achievement Recognition) Award from the Society for Biomaterials.

photo of Shalu Suri with the ocean in the background

Shalu Suri

Shalu Suri, a graduate student in Dr. Christine Schmidt's Molecular Tissue Engineering Lab, has just been informed that she is the recipient of a STAR (Student Travel Achievement Recognition) Award from the Society for Biomaterials. The award is for her paper entitled "Synthesis and Characterization of a Photocrosslinkable Collagen-Hyaluronan Interpenetrating Network for Neural Tissue Engineering : An ECM mimic" and was nominated by the Tissue Engineering SIG (Special Interest Group) as an outstanding contribution to the Society For Biomaterials 2007 Annual Meeting.

This recognition will be announced from the podium during the opening ceremony, Wednesday, April 18 at 5:00 p.m. and consists of a certificate of recognition and a travel expense reimbursement check for $250.