Meet the 2024 Winner: Mihika Ramprasad
Mihika Ramprasad is a rising senior at Princeton University. She is majoring in Chemical and Biological engineering with a focus in biotechnology. Mihika has been working with the Nolan Lab at NYU Grossman School of Medicine for the past two years. She is studying predictors of lung-function loss in World Trade Center exposed never-smoking firefighters. Mihika worked with Princeton’s Global Health and Health Policy program to analyze global public disease incidence data to predict population-level disease dynamics from immune responses. She is also involved in Engineers Without Borders working to bring portable water solutions to primary schools in Kenya. For her senior thesis, she will be working on antibiotic failure and bacterial persistence with Prof. Brynildsen, and she intends to apply to grad schools in the fall.
Description:
This award recognizes a trainee (graduate student, post-doctoral fellow, clinical trainee) or early stage investigator (within 10 years of completing their terminal research degree and NOT still considered a student or presently in pre- or post-doctoral training program) for their abstract at the ATS International Conference related to TID. Awardees will be presented with a framed certificate at the ATS International Conference.
Eligibility:
- Nominees must be an ATS member
- Previous awardees are not eligible for the same award
- Abstracts must be submitted for review by the EOPH Assembly
Judging Criteria:
- Judging will be conducted by the EOPH program committee including TID delegates.
- The award will be selected based on the highest ranking abstract related to the work of TID that is submitted to an EOPH abstract category
- TID-related abstracts with trainee or early stage presenting authors that have scored highly by the EOPH program committee will be subsequently reviewed by the TID Executive Committee.
- The TID Executive Committee will score these finalist abstracts based on relevance to TID topics, quality of writing, novelty or importance, and TID member status of the presenting author.
