Student Travel Award
To continue advancing our mission of enabling cutting-edge human physiology research, we’re excited to launch the second year of the Technavance Student Travel Award in 2026. Building on the success of our inaugural competition, this award supports undergraduate and graduate students presenting research at a conference using a Technavance instrument or a lab-built system with similar functionality. Our goal remains the same: to support the next generation of researchers today.
Voting is now open from April 6th through May 1st. We invite you to review this year’s student submissions and cast your vote using the poll at the bottom of the page.
Kyle Heise, an undergraduate student at Skidmore College, investigated whether sympathetic nervous system (SNS) activation induced by lower body negative pressure alters near-infrared spectroscopy vascular occlusion test (NIRS-VOT) responses...
Marco Romanelli, a graduate student at the University of Torino in Italy, explored orthostatic stress triggers multiple compensatory mechanisms, including arteriolar and venous constriction, using lower body negative pressure...
Shahrzad Soleimani Dehnavi, a graduate student at Laval University, investigated dynamic cerebral autoregulation (dCA) and its directional sensitivity during mild and severe normobaric hypoxia using oscillatory lower body negative pressure...
Huc Pentinat Llurba, an graduate student at Texas A&M University, investigated internal jugular vein (IJV) hemodynamics in microgravity and the effects of graded lower body negative pressure as a countermeasure...
Michael Eleruja, a graduate student at University of North Texas Health Science Center, investigated the effects of Pulsatile Perfusion Therapy (PPT) on baroreflex sensitivity (BRS) and cerebral autoregulation (CA) using oscillatory lower body negative pressure...
Kavithra Karalasingham, a graduate student at the University of Calgary, investigated whether blood volume loading improves cardiac function in patients with Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome (POTS) during orthostatic stress using lower body negative pressure...