We are pleased to announce that The Society for Thermal Medicine, with funding from the Jayne Koskinas Ted Giovanis Foundation for Health and Policy, is providing travel grants to 15 New Investigators to encourage participation at the 2017 STM annual meeting.
Awardees will receive a $500 travel grant and registration to the meeting.
Travel Awards recipients are based upon a competitive evaluation of their submitted abstracts and New Investigator Award applications.
2017 STM New Investigator Travel Award Winners

Dr. Hale Arca
Novel Photo-induced Chemotherapy Delivery Matrix for Support of Abdominal Organs following Cytoreductive Surgery
Wake Forest School of Medicine
Winston Salem, North Carolina
USA

Dr. James Barnett
Temperature-dependent activation of DNA damage repair in human colorectal cancer cells
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Baltimore, Maryland
USA

Dr. Steven Brousell
Synergistic Immuno-Photothermal Nanotherapy (SYMPHONY): A Novel Treatment for Localized and Metastatic Bladder Cancer
Duke University
Durham, North Carolina
USA

Ms. Juliana Cano-Mejia
Prussian blue nanoparticle-based photothermal therapy combined with checkpoint inhibition for photothermal immunotherapy of neuroblastoma
University of Maryland
Hyattsville, Maryland
USA

Dr. Bingbing Cheng
Development of a remote acoustic sensing safety mechanism for biofilm eradication using alternating magnetic fields
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Dallas, Texas
USA

Ms. EunYoung Koh
Development of the thermosensitizer for maximizing cancer treatment efficacy with the radiofrequency-induced hyperthermia
Jeonbuk National University
Jenonju-Si, Jeollabik-Do
Republic of Korea

Dr. Satya VVN Kothapalli
Identification of clinical MR-HIFU hyperthermia treatment sites through validation of MR thermometry accuracy and precision in healthy volunteers
Washington University in Saint Louis
Saint Louis, Missouri
USA

Ms. Jessie Lee
Compact Ultrasound Applicator for Hyperthermia Treatment of the Transgenic Adenocarcinoma Mouse Prostate Model (TRAMP) with MR Thermometry in a 14T MRI Scanner
University of California San Francisco
San Francisco, CA
USA

Dr. Jason Molitoris
Radiation Therapy plus External Thermal Therapy Results
in Modest Toxicities with the Promise of
Increased Efficacy: A Single Institutional Experience
University of Maryland Medical Center
Baltimore, Maryland
USA

Mr. Anjan Motamarry
In vivo fluorescence imaging predicts drug uptake for temperature sensitive liposomal doxorubicin
Medical University of South Carolina
Charlestom, South Carolina
USA

Dr. Imalka Munaweera
Temperature-Sensitive Liposomal Ciprofloxacin for the Treatment of Biofilm on Prosthetic Joint Implants using Alternating Magnetic Fields
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Dallas, Texas
USA

Mrs. Arlene Oei
Hyperthermia affects both BRCA2-proficient and
BRCA2-deficient cell lines
Department of Radiation Oncology, AMC
Amsterdam
The Netherlands

Dr. Elizabeth Sweeney
Eliciting immunogenic cell death using Prussian blue nanoparticle-based photothermal therapy and the implications for cancer therapy
Children’s National Health System
Washington, DC
USA

Dr. Li Tian
Co-delivery of nanoparticulated NVP BEZ-235 decreases cell proliferation of irreversible electroporation treated xenograft
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Houston, Texas
USA

Dr. Bettina Weigelin
Activating serial killers of cancer cells: Hyperthermia as supporting strategy for cancer immunotherapy
MD Anderson Cancer Center
Houston, Texas
USA