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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?
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.