Announcements

Eight biomedical engineering students will be honored with Rensselaer's Founders awards. The award recipients are: Khaled T. Abdoun, Allison K. Fleck, Lydia R. Krauss, Taylor M. MacEwen, Kuwabo Mubyana, John C. Ramsdell, Theodor A. Ross, Hayley M. Roy Gill The Founders Award of Excellence was established in 1994 to honor students who embody qualities of creativity, discovery, leadership, and the values of pride and responsibility at Rensselaer. The award consists of a special certificate, recognition by faculty, staff, and peers at the Honors Convocation ceremony, and a cash prize.

Denzel Faulkner, a graduate student supervised by Dr. Xavier Intes, has won the Young Scholar's Award of the Road from Nanomedicine to Precision Medicine Conference, an annual and international event. The title of his poster was "Multispectral Mesoscopic Fluorescence Molecular Tomography (MFMT)". More detail about the Pharmaceutical Research Institute which sponsored the conference can be found on their web site: https://pri-albany.org/

Do cells lean left or right?

BME Faculty Highlights Series Associate Professor Leo Wan and the Laboratory for Tissue Engineering and Morphogenesis This article is the first in a series aimed at spotlighting the faculty in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at RPI. In this series, we will highlight biomedical research areas, cutting edge engineering techniques, student and trainee successes, as well as the broader societal impacts of the work in BME.

Pingkun Yan's paper titled "Detection and Grading of Prostrate Cancer using Temporal Enhanced Ultrasound: Combining Deep Neural Networks and Tissue Mimicking Simulations" has won the best paper award of a special issue of the International Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery devoted to papers presented at the Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI) conference. The abstract of the paper is shown below: PURPOSE: Temporal Enhanced Ultrasound (TeUS) has been proposed as a new paradigm for tissue characterization based on a sequence of ultrasound radio fr

Due to the generosity of Dr. Peter A. Torzilli, M.S.’70, Ph.D.’74, the department is able to establish the Torzilli Family Endowed Fund for Undergraduate Research in Biomedical Engineering. This fund recognizes the need for technically educated people who will serve the betterment of mankind through the application of engineering and science to the common purposes of life. The fund recognizes Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute as one of the finest universities and a leader in providing an excellent and rigorous technical education - preparing its students to contribute to a better world.

Eric Ledet's group has won the Best Trauma Poster award at the annual meeting of the Orthopaedic Research Society. The citation of the poster is: Drazan JF, Wassick MT, Drayton KA, Mayo SR, Cady NC, Dahle R, Ledet EH. Long Term In Vitro Testing of a Wireless Pressure Sensor for Detection of Acute Compartment Syndrome. Proceedings of the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Orthopaedic Research Society, San Diego, CA. March, 2017.

Dr. Pingkun Yan has joined the biomedical engineering department as an Assistant Professor. Pingkun received his BS degree in Electronics Engineering and Information Science from University of Science and Technology of China (2001) and a PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from National University of Singapore (2006). Before joining the department, he has been working as a Senior Scientist at Philips Research North America since 2013.

The Graduation reception is held at the atrium in CBIS on May 19, 2017 to celebrate the achievements of the students graduating this year. A total of 108 students are graduating with a BS, 11 with a Masters, and 6 PhDs are awarded. The number of students receiving a BS degree is at a record value, reflecting the popularity of the program. In addition to honoring the graduating students, several awards are given: The Paul B. Daitch Memorial Award: Michael Wassick The Zelda & David G.