MEMBERSHIP
Technologist Travel Award
The AMP Technologist Travel Award provides travel assistance to the Annual Meeting & Expo for multiple selected AMP member technologists who do not receive travel support from their institutions.
Award amount: Up to $1,500 in travel reimbursement, plus meeting registration and free access to on-demand recordings after the meeting
Application opens: April 1
Application deadline: June 30
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These awards are supported in part by Asuragen.The applicant must be an AMP technologist member who works in the clinical molecular diagnostics field as a technologist. "Technologist" can include clinical or R&D technologists/assistants.
Applicants may not receive funding for travel and/or registration to the Annual Meeting & Expo from their institution (communication from the lab director required).
Authorship on an abstract is preferred but not required.
Winners of the award in the previous three (3) years are not eligible.
Applicant must agree to attend the Business/Awards Session at the Annual Meeting & Expo in order to accept the award personally.
Applicant must agree to submit a 250-word report to AMP within a month of the conclusion of the 2025 AMP Annual Meeting & Expo summarizing their experiences and what they learned by attending the meeting.
Tasks for the technologist applicant to perform:
- Prepare (3) supporting documents:
- Current CV or resume
- Statement of Interest that includes:
- Description of your commitment, experience, and interest in molecular diagnostics.
- Description of what you expect to gain from attending the AMP Annual Meeting. For example, how you believe the knowledge gained will expand your current understanding of molecular diagnostics, how it will benefit you in their current position, and / or how it will further your career.
- If you are an author on an abstract that is being submitted for the annual meeting, obtain a copy of the abstract in either MS Word or PDF format.
- Complete and submit an online application at https://ampawards.secure-platform.com/a
- Make sure that your director submits the required communication that your travel and registration for the annual meeting is not funded by your institution (see below).
Task for the technologist's lab director to perform:
Send an email to ampawards@amp.org with the following information:
- Applicant's name and position
- Description and amount of financial support provided by the institution:
- Registration: full, partial (amount) or none
- Airfare and/or ground transportation: full, partial (amount) or none
- Hotel: full, partial (amount) or none
- Meals: full, partial (amount) or none
- Include your name and contact information
Please direct questions to ampawards@amp.org
Marcus Cannon, Cincinnati Children's Hospital
Paul Hakimata, Memorial Healthcare System
Laura Garcia Alanis, The American British Cowdray Medical Center
Shauna Eccles, Intermountain Health
Esmeralda Kennedy, Children's Mercy Hospital
Ayah Abdulhamid, Children's Mercy Hospital
LaTara Brown, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
Ashley Degner, Inova Health System
Lauren Frady, Q2 Solutions
Fatemeh Khanmohammadi, Brigham & Women's Hospital
Lia Mongado, Brigham & Women's Hospital
Srikrishna Narava, Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research
Stephanie Walker, Barnes Jewish Hospital/Washington University in St. Louis
Alyssa Williams, Massachusetts General Hospital
Lara Bonomi, Baystate Health
Meghan Buldo, University of Rochester Medical Center
Lisa Haley, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine- Johns Hopkins Genomics
Lama Hamadeh, American University of Beirut Medical Center
Weijing He, MD, UT Health San Antonio
Grace Luk, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Center
Briege Mahoney, University of Vermont Medical Center Genomic Medicine Laboratory
Nikitha Nair, Leidos Biomedical Research
Christine Nakad, American University of Beirut Medical Center (AUBMC)
Haibo Liu, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA
Prisca Mbonu, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD
Maria Saeed, NIH/NCI, Bethesda, MD
Jade Santiago, Veritas Genetics, Danvers, MA
None due to the global pandemic
Caitlin Dougherty, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
Lama Hamadeh, American University of Beirut, Lebanon
Ashley Shean, Sentara Norfolk General Hospital, Norfolk, VA
Sahar Halabi, American University of Beirut, Lebanon
Hayley Robinson, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA
Poonam Santra, Tata Medical Center, Kolkata, India
Charles L. DiRienzo, Brigham & Women's Hospital, Boston, MA
Todd Laughlin, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY
Elizabeth Lindsey, Children's Hospital Colorado, Denver, CO
Yan Bai, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX
Lizmery Suarez Ferguson, Texas Children's Hospital, Houston, TX
Zarina Yelskaya, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY
Mark J. Bowser, Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical, Boston, MA
Rebecca Stolarczyk, UMass Memorial Medical Center, Worcester, MA
Yigin Xiong, UMass Memorial Medical Center, Worcester, MA
Mary Beth Durso, University of Pittsburgh Medical Ctr, Pittsburgh, PA
Vijetha Kumar, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX
Aaron Stence, Univ of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Iowa City, IA
Roger Faubel, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
Maureen Harazin, NorthShore University HealthSystem, Evanston, IL
Barbara Voss, NorthShore University HealthSystem, Evanston, IL
Jacqueline L. Bruce, Brigham and Women's Hospital Center for Advanced Molecular Diagnostics, Boston, MA
Ericka Hendrix, TTUHSC Laboratory for Molecular Diagnostics, Lubbock, TX
Erik Samayoa, UCSF Clinical Microbiology Laboratory, San Francisco, CA
Jamie Marola, National Jewish Health, Denver, CO
Vijaya K. Rajagopal, Covance Central Laboratory Services Inc., Indianapolis, IN
Lihui Yin, BloodCenter of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI
Ephrem Chim, Emory Genetics Laboratory, Atlanta, GA
Dulini Gamage, Univ of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
Charlotte Romain, Univ of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
Lorraine Dominguez, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
Debbie Nielson, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Tong Zhang, The Ontario Cancer Institute, Toronto, Ontario
