Alejandro Presents Oral Presentation at 64th ASH Conference
The 64th ASH Annual Meeting and Exposition was hosted last month, December 10-13th in New Orleans, Louisiana. The American Society of Hematology’s (ASH) mission is to further the understanding, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention
of blood and bone marrow disorders by promoting
research, clinical care, education, training and advocacy in
hematology. The Society host the annual meeting to facilitate the exchange of scientific information and clinical results related to the field of hematology.
Alejandro presented an oral presentation at the 64th ASH Annual Meeting and Exposition and was the honored recipient of the merit-based Abstract Achievement Award for his work on A Dynamic Personalized Human 3D Organoid for the Study of the Tumor Microenvironment and Metabolism in Acute Myeloid Leukemia Using Patient-Derived Xenografts. Each year, the American Society of Hematology offers merit-based Abstract Achievement Awards to select individuals to acknowledge the accomplishments of hematologists-in-training. His oral presentation was presented on Sunday December 11th during Session: 803. Emerging Tools, Techniques and Artificial Intelligence in Hematology: New Molecular Tools for Precision Diagnostics in Hematology. We are very proud of Alejandro’s work which you can learn more about here.
Over the course of 7 weeks this summer, BSEL members 
Esther Chen has chosen to pursue her PhD in the joint Biomedical Engineering department of Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University with us at the Biological Systems Engineering Lab. Esther received a BSc in Chemical Engineering from ETH Zurich, Switzerland. During her undergraduate studies she worked in the field of green chemistry. Her semester project was on kinetic studies of ring-opening polymerization of polyethylene furanoate (PEF) using bio-compatible initiators. Before graduating, she also completed a 6-month internship in API manufacturing at Janssen-Cilag (Johnson&Johnson). Continuing with her Master’s in Chemical and Bioengineering at ETH, Esther deepened her knowledge on process design and simulation. She completed her thesis in the group of Prof. Klavs Jensen at MIT (Cambridge, MA) on the continuous end-to-end synthesis of ciprofloxacin hydrochloride. Once back in Zurich, she worked in the Macromolecular Engineering Lab led by Prof. Mark Tibbitt on the preparation of photodegradable hydrogels.