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Student Travel Award

​To advance our mission of enabling cutting-edge human physiology research, in 2025 we decided to launch the inaugural Technavance Student Travel Award! This competition supported undergraduate and graduate students presenting research at a conference using a Technavance instrument or a lab-built version with similar functionality. Our primary goal was to support our future researchers TODAY! We’ll begin accepting applications for the 2026 Student Travel Award at the start of the new year.

Scroll down to view this year’s contestants and award recipients ↓

Rachel Ghitter from the University of Calgary

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Rachel Ghitter, a graduate student at the University of Calgary, is investigating sex differences in muscle performance by comparing critical power (CP) during dynamic knee extension in men and women...

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Marco Romanelli, a graduate student at the University of Torino in Italy, is exploring venous pulse wave velocity (vPWV) as a non-invasive indicator of blood volume changes using lower body negative pressure...

Christabel Osei-Boateng from the University of Guelph

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Christabel Osei-Boateng, a graduate student at the University of Guelph, is investigating how contact sports impact cardiovascular and cerebrovascular health...

Youanaa Gendy from San Jose State University

Youanaa Gendy, an undergraduate research assistant at San Jose State University and aspiring occupational therapist, is investigating sex differences in cardiovascular responses to exercise and lower body negative pressure...

Skye Ling from the University of Waterloo

Skye Ling, an undergraduate student at the University of Waterloo, is studying how lower body negative pressure affects blood flow regulation in the lower limbs...

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