Announcements

BME senior Nick Fadden, in collaboration with biological neuroscience student Ilana McCarthy, tied for 2nd place in the $5K Catalyst Launch Prize for the first Spring Catalyst cohort. Their team, DropliQ, pitched "A new low-cost method of digitizing clinical or environmental samples for single molecule or single cell applications."

Nick Fadden is currently conducting research in Dr. Chris Puleo's lab and will be completing his master's degree at RPI. 

Clark and Crossan Chair Professor Ge Wang has been awarded the 2025 Edith H. Quimby Award for Lifetime Achievement in Medical Physics. This award, given by the American Association of Physicists in Medicine, recognizes AAPM members whose careers have been notable based on their outstanding achievements. The awards ceremony is scheduled for July 28 at their next meeting.

The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) has elected Professor Deepak Vashishth, Yamada Corporation Professor and Co-Director of the Center for Engineering & Precision Medicine, to the 2024 Class of AAAS Fellows. The Fellows are a distinguished cadre recognized for their achievements across disciplines, from research, teaching and technology to administration in academia, industry and government to excellence in communicating and interpreting science to the public.

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Navid Nizam, doctoral candidate in Dr. Xavier Intes's Functional & Molecular Optical Imaging Lab, and Xinrui Song, doctoral candidate in Dr. Pingkun Yan's Deep Imaging Analytics Lab, have both received the 2025 Belsky Award for Computational Sciences and Engineering.

The School of Engineering at RPI awards several Belsky awards each year to graduate students with a strong academic record and outstanding contributions to computer science engineering. 

Amogh Shetty, an RPI senior doing research in Dr. Xavier Intes's Functional & Molecular Optical Imaging Lab, has been awarded the Jo Anne and David Kelch '60 Undergraduate Research Award for his project, "Deep Learning-Based Data Fusion for Super-Resolution Time-Resolved Fluorescence Image Generation and Fluorescence Lifetime Parameter Estimation."

President Biden awarded nearly 400 scientists and engineers the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), the highest honor bestowed by the U.S. government on outstanding scientists and engineers early in their careers. Among them is BMED's Professor Elizabeth Blaber.