BME graduate student Lavanya Peddada has been awarded a predoctoral fellowship from the New Jersey Commission on Cancer Research for her project entitled "Novel Carrier for Antisense Cancer Therapeutics". The 2 year, $50,000 fellowship will support Lavanya during the latter stages of her PhD program under the mentorship of Professor Charles Roth.
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November 2009
November 23, 2009
Professor Charalampos (Babis) Kalodimos has been selected as the 2010 winner of the young investigator award of the Protein Society. The award is named after the late Irving Sigal and includes a $6,000 stipend, an invitation to present a lecture at an annual meeting and $2,000 towards the cost of travel expenses associated with attending the meeting which will be held in San Diego from August 1st to August 5th of 2010.
November 13, 2009
Pallavi Tiwari (LCIB member and 2nd year BME PhD student) has been awarded a 3 year, $100K, Department of Defense fellowship for her project entitled "Computerized Decision Support System for Detection and Grading of Prostate Cancer Using Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy (MRS)". Pallavi will be working under the mentorship of Professor Anant Madabhushi. Dr's Mark Rosen (UPENN), John Kurhanewicz (UCSF), and Nicholas Bloch (Boston Medical Center) will serve as clinical collaborators on this project.
November 11, 2009
BME PhD students Kiana Aran and Mercedes Morales from Dr. Jeffrey Zahn'slaboratory have received conference travel awards from the Graduate School to help defray travel costs to the Microtas 2009 Conference in Jeju Korea in early November. Both students presented posters at the conference.
November 10, 2009
LCIB member and BME PhD graduate student, Ajay Basavanhally has been awarded a 2 year predoctoral fellowship from the New Jersey Commission on Cancer research for his project entitled "Quantitative Prognosis on Breast Cancer Histopathology". The 2 year, $50,000 fellowship will support Ajay during his PhD program under the mentorship of Professor Anant Madabhushi in the BME department at Rutgers.
October 2009
October 2, 2009
Congratulations to Professor Ki-Bum Lee, Graduate Faculty in BME & Stem Cell IGERT Faculty, for bagging the highly competitive NIH Director's New Innovator award, given nationally to a small number of early stage investigators of exceptional creativity who propose bold and highly innovative new research approaches. Professor Lee's project funded at $2.3M is titled: Combinatorial approaches for studying multiple cues regulating human pluripotent stem cell (hPSC) fate.
October 1, 2009
Professor Martin Yarmush has been awarded a 2-year, $828K NIH grant entitled, "Recellularization of Liver Bioscaffolds". The project is focused on the development of techniques for decellularizing livers that are unsuitable for transplantation, and recellularizing them with embryonic stem cell derived hepatocyte-like cells. It is hoped that these new bioscaffolds will show more promise than the synthetic scaffold approach that has not yielded success over the past 20 years.
September 2009
September 28, 2009
Professor Anant Madabhushi has been awarded a NIH R-03 grant entitled "Integrating Quantitative Histological Image and Vascular Density Patterns for Prostate Cancer Prognosis Prediction". This 2 year $161,000 grant will continue the ongoing collaboration between Rutgers and the University of Pennsylvania. Dr's Feldman and Tomaszewski are the Co-PIs from UPENN.
September 15, 2009
Professor Evangelia Micheli-Tzanakou is one of the authors on newly a published book Biometrics - Theory, Methods and Applications. It is an indispensable resource for researchers, security experts, policy makers, engineers and graduate students. ISBN 978-0-470-24782-2.
September 14, 2009
Professor Micheli-Tzanakou was a guest editor on the topic of Computational Intelligence in Biomedicine for the IEEE Transactions Journal. Dr. Micheli-Tzanakou is featured in the September 2009 edition of IEEE Journal.