Announcements

Dr. Juergen Hahn, professor and BME department head, and BME professor Dr. Mariah Hahn have been elected to the 2022 Class of BMES Fellows. BMES awards Fellow status to members who demonstrate exceptional achievements and experience in the field of biomedical engineering and hold a record of membership and participation in the Society. The 2022 Class of Fellows will be honored during the BMES Annual Meeting on Thursday, October 13 this year.

Dr. Pingkun Yan has been named the P.K. Lashmet Career Development Chair. The endowed professorship recognizes an exceptional faculty member early in their career who exemplifies a great commitment to undergraduate teaching and mentorship.

Uwe Kruger and Xavier Intes have been awarded an NIH R21 grant focusing on "artificial intelligence enhanced cancer cell classification based organelle morphology and topology". This is a two-year grant with a budget of over $450k. The work is done in collaboration with Albany Medical Center, where Margarida Barroso serves as the PI. Dr. Kruger is the PI for RPI and Dr.

Deepak Vashishth has been awarded an NIH R01 grant on the topic, "Effect of Advanced Glycation Endproducts on Type 2 Diabetic and Fragility Fracture." This is a 5 year grant with a budget of $4M. The project will use in vitro biochemical models, preclinical modes of obese and non-obese T2D and human data from NIA's Health ABC study to find and establish a new biomarker of T2D fracture that captures the effects of both hyperglycemia and oxidative stress in bone.

Biomedical Engineering professor and CBIS director Dr. Deepak Vashishth has been named the Yamada Corporation Professor at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. The endowed professorship recognizes an exceptional faculty member who is committed to excellence in engineering education and who inspires others to achieve their personal best. The prestigious Yamada Corporation Professorship is one of the highest honors bestowed on a Rensselaer faculty member. 

Sabrina Kosnik, a PhD student in Deepak Vashishth's group, has been selected to receive the ASBMR Young Investigator Award. Her award is for her abstract presentation "Gut Dysbiosis and Loss of Bone Quality Associated with Neurodegeneration in the 5xFAD Mouse Model for Alzheimer's Disease."

Tyree Williams, a 4th year PhD student participating in a translational research bridge program at Sinai BioDesign at the Icahn school of Medicine at Mount Sinai, has won the Mount Sinai Innovation Partners 2022 Pitch Challenge.

Dr. Ge Wang has been selected as the recipient of Sigma Xi's Walston Chubb Award for Innovation. Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Honor Society, is the international honor society of science and engineering. One of the oldest and largest scientific organizations in the world, Sigma Xi has a distinguished history of service to science and society for more than one hundred and twenty five years.