Four BME students won five awards at the 2019 GW Research Days competition. This annual, university-wide competition is sponsored by GW’s Office of the Vice President for Research and includes discipline-specific and special topic prize categories. BME students won awards this year in both sets of categories.
Congratulations to:
Category: Biomedical Engineering – Undergraduate Presenters:
1st: Christianne Chua: “Engineered Live Three-Dimensional "Spark Cell" Structures for Optical Pacing”
Advisor: Dr. Emilia Entcheva
2nd: Anna Warhol: “Electrocardiographic response to Doxorubicin treatment in mouse is modulated by conscious and anesthetized state”
Advisor: Dr. Igor Efimov
Category: Biomedical Engineering – Graduate Student Presenters:
Biomedical Engineering:
1st (Tie): Frederick Zasadny: “A Powerful Approach to Understanding Cardiac Structure and Function”
Advisor: Dr. Matthew Kay
Frederick tied with Jenna Osborn of the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering.
Category: GWNIC Award for Microscopy Techniques
1st: Frederick Zasadny: “A Powerful Approach to Understanding Cardiac Structure and Function”
Advisor: Dr. Matthew Kay
Category: AccelerateGW I-Corps Site Grants
Shuyue Guan: “Can a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) implement histogram equalization in image analysis?”
Advisor: Dr. Murray Loew