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2024


05/2024: Congratulations to Arlo for graduating with a B.S. in Biomedical Engineering!
05/2024: Welcome to our newest post-doctoral fellow, Nikhila Nyayapathi, who will be supporting our photoacoustic and optical projects. Also welcome Liumei Ma, who will be pursuing a Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineer.  
05/2024: Congratulations to David for receiving the Wilmot Cancer Research Fellowship to support his thesis project research for the next two years!
03/2024: Congratulations to Yeidi, Quinn and Nyasha for receiving the Schwartz Discover Grant, which supports full-time undergraduate research over the summer. 
02/2024: Congratulations and great job to David for giving a technical talk on his research at SPIE Medical Imaging. 

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2023

11/2023: Congratulations to David for winning the Best Clinical Research Presentation award during the Radiology Research Week 2023. 
 

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11/2023: Congratulations to Yeidi and David for winning the Best Undergraduate Trainee poster award (1st place, Yeidi) and Best Graduate Trainee Poster Award (2nd place, David) at the 2023 Rochester Center for Biomedical Ultrasound Conference, "in recognition of outstanding research in the field of biomedical ultrasound". Both David and Yan were featured as plenary speakers.
 

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08/2023: Welcome to our new Ph.D. students, Hossein (Electrical and Computer Engineer) and Gaofei (Biomedical Engineering) !

07/2023: Congratulations to David for obtaining the Fischer Fund grant!

01/2023: Our recently published work on the development of a "Theranostic Intracardiac Endoscopic Device" is featured on the cover of IEEE Transaction on Biomedical Engineering (TBME)! Here is the link to the published article: https://lnkd.in/e9PKcuAh
 

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2022

12/2022: Congratulations to Alex for successfully defending his dissertation!08/2022: Lab moved to University of Rochester
08/2022: Congratulations to John for successfully defending his dissertation!
07/2022: Received Karmanos Cancer Institute Strategic Research Initiative Grant (SRIG) - externally reviewed
03/2022: Congratulations to Nasim for successfully defending her dissertation! 
02/2022: Richard Barber interdisciplinary research award
 

2021

10/2021: Congratulations to Muteb for successfully defending his dissertation!
09/2021: Congratulation to Nasim for receiving IEEE International Ultrasonic Symposium, best paper award in Medical Ultrasound group!02/2021: Richard Barber interdisciplinary research award
 

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02/2021: Congratulations to Nasim for winning the 2021 Ralph H. Kummler Award for Distinguished Achievement in Graduate Student Research!

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02/2021: Congratulations to Nasrin and Yoseph for receiving the UROP Award!

02/2021: Congratulations to Nasim for receiving the Summer 2021 Dissertation Award!

2020

09/2020: Dr. Karl Kratkiewicz (PhD, Wayne State University) is joining us as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow! Welcome Karl!
04/2020: Congratulations to Nasim for completing her Dual Title PhD Program in Biomedical Imaging at Wayne State University!

2019

08/2019: Congratulations to Nasim for winning third place for best poster presentation in the annual Karmanos Cancer Institute Trainee/Junior Faculty Research Retreat!
08/2019: Congratulation to Yan for receiving an IEEE IUS Travel award!
05/2019: Congratulations to John and Alex for receiving the Graduate Professional Scholarship for the 2019-2020 academic year!
05/2019: Congratulation to Nasim for receiving a Graduate Assistant Award for 2019-2020 at Wayne State University!
05/2019: Congratulation to Yan for receiving the Thomas C. Rumble University Graduate Fellowship for the 2019-2020 academic year!

2018

11/2018: Congratulations to John for winning second place at the Functional and Molecular Imaging Conference!
08/2018: Congratulations to John for being the Runner-up at the Walabot & Raspberry Pi: Build Visionary Mobile Apps Online Hackathon!08/2018: Congratulation to Alex for winning second place award in 2018 Annual KCI Trainee/Junior Research Retreat! 
08/2018: Thanks to Photosound Inc., the lab is now equipped with a state-of-art small animal Photoacoustic and Fluorescence imaging system!Read more: https://www.pst-inc.com/imaging-platform/                
08/2018: Dr. Naser Alijabbari (PhD, University of Virginia) is joining us as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow! Welcome Naser! 
07/2018: John Samuel and Alex Pattyn are joining us to continue their Masters projects now as PhD students! Welcome, Alex and John! 
05/2018: Congratulations to Alex Pattyn for receiving Graduate Professional Scholarship (2018-2019) 
05/2018: Congratulations to Timothy Burton, our newest recipient of UROP award! 
04/2018: Outstanding Faculty Award, College of Engineering@Wayne State University!               
 

03/2018: Congratulations to Yan Yan for receiving prestigious  Graduate Research Scholarship from Wayne State Graduate School for the academic year of 2018-2019. 
03/2017: The lab receives MTRAC funding for our collaborative project with Henry Ford Health System! 
03/2018: Congratulations to Suhail and Yan for being selected as 1st place and second place winners in graduate and postdoctoral symposium!
https://engineering.wayne.edu/news/engineering-students-awarded-at-2018-graduate-and-postdoctoral-research-symposium-29412 
01/2018: Congratulations to Rebecca and Zainab for receiving Undergraduate Research and Creative Project Award! 
01/2018: Congratulations to Nasim for receiving travel support from the college to attend SPIE Medical Imaging 2018 (Houston, Texas)

2017

12/2017: Congratulations to John Samuel for receiving travel grant for attending SPIE Medical Imaging 2018 (Houston, Texas) 
12/2017: Invited tutorial lecture on Photoacoustic Imaging at ISBI 2018 (April 2018, Washington DC). More information: http://biomedicalimaging.org/2018/tutorials/ 
11/2017: We are receiving Michigan Technology Commercialization "Technology Development Incubator Award"! 10/2017: The lab is receiving a CDMRP grant to support our ongoing research on Breast Cancer Imaging. (http://cdmrp.army.mil/bcrp/awards/17breakthroughawards_L1 
10/2017: John, Yan, Keetu, and Mahboobeh won the "First place" award for their poster presentation at Karmanos Cancer Institute Molecular Imaging event. Congratulation! 
08/2017 - Congratulations to Mac-Rufus Omeokolo for his Louise Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation Research Program (MI-LSAMP) Scholarship Award! 
08/2017 - Congratulations to John (and his team) for winning the first place in Detroit Industrial Hack competitions. 
06/2017 - Congratulations to Yan for receiving IEEE IUS 2017 travel support! 05/2017 - Congratulations to Nasim for receiving Rumble Fellowship! 05/2017 - Congratulations to Yash for receiving UROP award!  
04/2017 - College of Engineering Excellence in Teaching Award              
 

 
04/2017 - College of Engineering Excellence in Teaching Award              
03/2017 - University Research Grant (PI: Mehrmohammadi) 02/2017 - Thanks to Karmanos Cancer Institute: we received a funding to continue our ultrasound and Photoacoustic tomography project (in collaboration with Dr. Neb Duric). 
01/2017 - Congratulations to Ayushi and Keetu for receiving University level Undergraduate Research Award!

2016

12/2016 - Congratulations to Jenn for receiving AGRADE scholarship! 11/2016 - Congratulations to Ayushi, Keetu, Bilal, and Yagnik for winning College of Engineering UROP award! 
11/2016 - Congratulations to Nicole and Garrett for winning an award for their poster presentation at UROP 2016 presentation event! Well done!
http://urop.wayne.edu/conference/conference_award_winners_2016.pdf
09/2016 - Nasim Basij is joining the lab as a PhD student! Welcome Nasim! 08/2016 - Congratulations to Barrington for receiving the prestigious ISA Educational Foundation award! 
05/2016 - Congratulations to Nicole and Garrett for receiving Undergraduate Research Fellowshiop Award! 

05/2016 - Congratulations to Arjun for receiving Graduate Professional Scholarship Award! 
05/2016 - Congratulations to Yan for receiving graduate school "Rumble Fellowship" 
04/2016 - Suhail's work on combined ultrasound and photoacoustic tomography of breast cancer is selected for oral presentation at 2016 Ultrasonic Imaging and Tissue Characterization. 
   
 

02/2016 - Best poster award for our recent work on development of an endocavity ultrasound, photoacoustic, and elasticity imaging probe (Authors: Yan, Sirisha, Barrington, Majeed, Bhargava, Suhail)
http://engineering.wayne.edu/news.php?id=19053http://spie.org/about-spie/press-room/spie-medical-imaging-2016-news-and-photos       

01/2016 - Congratulations to Barrington and Nelvin for receiving graduate school scholarship!

2015

12/2015 - Sirisha and Yan are receiving graduate school travel awards for attending SPIE Medical Imaging and SPIE Photonics West. Congratulations! 
12/2015 - Bhargava is receiving "Graduation Scholarship" for Winter 2016! Congratulations!

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