Teeraratkul, left, with a fellow award winner and Mariana Kersh, chair of the competition. Doctoral student Chayut Teeraratkul won first place in the Summer Biomechanics, Bioengineering, and Biotransport Conference (SB3C) PhD Student Paper Competition.
Teeraratkul won the award on his work on blood clot contraction mechanics. His paper, “A Micromechanics Based Multiscale Model For Platelet-Driven Clot Contraction,” outlined a model that could help doctors better understand how blood clots shrink after formation, with implications for stroke and thromboembolism treatment.
Closely associated with the American Society of Mechanical Engineers Bioengineering Division, SB3C is one of the flagship meetings in the discipline. Participants in the student paper competition are reviewed and scored from a preliminary two-page abstract submission, and 36 finalists across six podium sessions were selected. The finalists were further judged on an oral presentation and Q&A.
Teeraratkul works in Assistant Professor Debanjan Mukherjee’s Flow Physics Laboratory. The interdisciplinary research group works to unravel fundamental complex flow physics and transport phenomena with a focus on biofluid systems.