Dr. Menekse Ermis Sen was awarded first prize for her oral presentation titled "Nucleus Deformation on Micropatterned Substrates: A Tool to Quantify Nuclear Deformability of Cancer Cells" (Menekse Ermis, Derya Akkaynak, Pu Chen, Utkan Demirci, Vasif Hasirci) in the 2^nd International Biomedical Engineering Congress, 24-27 May 2018 at Near East University, Northern Cyprus. We congratulate her and wish her continued success.