SEAC Charles N. Reilley & Royce W. Murray Award Session

Charles N. Reilley award winner - Charles Henry is a Professor of Chemistry, Chemical & Biological Engineering, and Biomedical Engineering at Colorado State. He also serves as CEO for Burst Diagnostics, Inc. He received his B.S. degree with Honors in Chemistry from Missouri Southern State College and Ph.D. in Analytical Chemistry under the supervision of Dr. Ingrid Fritsch at the University of Arkansas. He was an NIH postdoctoral fellow at the University of Kansas under the supervision of Dr. Susan Lunte. He was a Fulbright Scholar and has been the receipt of the 2019 ACS Measurement Science Award, the 2020 CSU CNS Nobel Laureate Award, and the 2025 ACS Analytical Division Electrochemistry Award. He is an associate editor for Analytica Chimica Acta. Dr. Henry has founded multiple startups from his academic laboratory, including Advanced MicroLabs, Access Sensor Technologies, and Burst Diagnostics. His research interests lie broadly in the areas of microfluidics, electrochemistry, and sensors with application to questions in bioanalytical and environmental chemistry. This includes development of electrochemical paper-based microfluidic devices, electrochemical capillary flow microfluidic devices, and electrochemical sensors.



Royce W. Murray Award winner - Maral Mousavi joined the department of biomedical engineering at USC in 2019 as an assistant professor. She received her B.S. from Sharif University of Technology and completed her PhD studies at the University of Minnesota. Before joining USC, Maral was a postdoctoral fellow in the research group of Prof. George Whitesides at Harvard University and Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, working on affordable diagnostic devices to make healthcare and analysis accessible to all. Maral’s research experiences and interests span from point-of-care diagnostics, to electrochemical sensors, wearable devices, neural probes, and tools for precision medicine. Her research is focused on addressing health disparities through development of creative tools for diagnostic and mechanistic studies. Maral’s creative research and accomplishments are recognized through numerous awards including NIH Director’s New Innovator Award (DP2), 3M Nontenured Faculty Award, Research Award from Powell Foundation, Zumberge Diversity and Inclusion Research Award, Grand Prize of the Maseeh Entrepreneurship Prize Competition (MEPC), Provost Strategic Research Award, Stevens Transformational Innovation Award, Pillsbury Mentorship Award from the USC Stevens Center for Innovation, the University of Minnesota Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship, Graham N. Gleysteen Fellowship for Academic Excellence, Graduate Student Research Awards from Eastern Analytical Symposium, Young Chemist Runner-up Award (2018), and Graduate Research Award from the Society for Electroanalytical Chemistry. Maral is committed to addressing disparities in graduate education (as well as healthcare). She is the founder of a YouTube channel called “Surviving and Thriving in Higher Education”, dedicated to accessible training tutorials on soft skills, technical skills, and the strategies for maintaining well-being in graduate education. This channel currently has more than 60,000 subscribers.