{"id":11520,"date":"2019-03-19T15:04:36","date_gmt":"2019-03-19T19:04:36","guid":{"rendered":"health.uconn.edu\/regenerative-engineering-institute?p=11520"},"modified":"2019-03-19T15:45:35","modified_gmt":"2019-03-19T19:45:35","slug":"11520","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/regenerative-engineering-institute\/2019\/03\/19\/11520\/","title":{"rendered":"CT Convergence Institute Member Wins UConn&#8217;s School of Engineering Poster Competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\">The CT Convergence Center for Translation in Regenerative Engineering is pleased to announce that a member of our Institute, <strong>Leila Daneshmandi<\/strong> (a Ph.D Student from Biomedical Engineering) has earned a <strong>1st place award<\/strong> in the 5th <strong>Annual UConn School of Engineering Poster Competition<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"health.uconn.edu\/regenerative-engineering-institutewp-content\/uploads\/sites\/213\/2019\/03\/Leila-group-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11511 aligncenter\" src=\"health.uconn.edu\/regenerative-engineering-institutewp-content\/uploads\/sites\/213\/2019\/03\/Leila-group-2-300x195.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"195\" srcset=\"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/regenerative-engineering-institute\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/213\/2019\/03\/Leila-group-2-300x195.jpg 300w, https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/regenerative-engineering-institute\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/213\/2019\/03\/Leila-group-2-768x499.jpg 768w, https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/regenerative-engineering-institute\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/213\/2019\/03\/Leila-group-2-1024x665.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">The competition, which was open to graduate students from all engineering departments, included two rounds of judging.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">In the first round, participants presented to faculty members within their own department and were judged among peers in that department. Leila won first place for the Biomedical Engineering Department based on feedback from judges Dr. Ki Chon (department head) and Dr. Kristin Morgan. For the next round, advancing participants presented to a team of industrial professionals with broad technology entrepreneurship experience.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"health.uconn.edu\/regenerative-engineering-institutewp-content\/uploads\/sites\/213\/2019\/03\/present-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-11516 alignleft\" src=\"health.uconn.edu\/regenerative-engineering-institutewp-content\/uploads\/sites\/213\/2019\/03\/present-2-300x197.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"330\" height=\"217\" srcset=\"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/regenerative-engineering-institute\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/213\/2019\/03\/present-2-300x197.jpg 300w, https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/regenerative-engineering-institute\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/213\/2019\/03\/present-2-768x505.jpg 768w, https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/regenerative-engineering-institute\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/213\/2019\/03\/present-2-1024x673.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 330px) 100vw, 330px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"health.uconn.edu\/regenerative-engineering-institutewp-content\/uploads\/sites\/213\/2019\/03\/Group.-Leila-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11514 alignright\" src=\"health.uconn.edu\/regenerative-engineering-institutewp-content\/uploads\/sites\/213\/2019\/03\/Group.-Leila-2-300x214.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"330\" height=\"236\" srcset=\"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/regenerative-engineering-institute\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/213\/2019\/03\/Group.-Leila-2-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/regenerative-engineering-institute\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/213\/2019\/03\/Group.-Leila-2-768x547.jpg 768w, https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/regenerative-engineering-institute\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/213\/2019\/03\/Group.-Leila-2-1024x729.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 330px) 100vw, 330px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Leila\u2019s project <em><strong>\u201cPLGA-Graphene Oxide Matrices for Bone Regenerative Engineering\u201d<\/strong><\/em> won the first place prize of $1,000 in the final round. Leila Daneshmandi is pictured below with her award presented by Kevin Arpin, Forensic Specialist from Travelers Institute, Kathy Rocha, Managing Director of UConn\u2019s Entrepreneurship and Innovation Consortium, and Kevin Bouley, President and CEO of Nerac.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"health.uconn.edu\/regenerative-engineering-institutewp-content\/uploads\/sites\/213\/2019\/03\/Leila.award-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11512 aligncenter\" src=\"health.uconn.edu\/regenerative-engineering-institutewp-content\/uploads\/sites\/213\/2019\/03\/Leila.award-2-300x293.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"293\" srcset=\"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/regenerative-engineering-institute\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/213\/2019\/03\/Leila.award-2-300x293.jpg 300w, https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/regenerative-engineering-institute\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/213\/2019\/03\/Leila.award-2-768x749.jpg 768w, https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/regenerative-engineering-institute\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/213\/2019\/03\/Leila.award-2-1024x999.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Congratulations to Leila Daneshmandi!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The CT Convergence Center for Translation in Regenerative Engineering is pleased to announce that a member of our Institute, Leila Daneshmandi (a Ph.D Student from Biomedical Engineering) has earned a 1st place award in the 5th Annual UConn School of Engineering Poster Competition. 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