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2008:
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Dr. Bing Yu has been selected as a recipient of a 2008 Duke University Postdoctoral Research Award. While many outstanding applications were received, the awards committee felt that Dr. Yu's proposal was one that best explained how this award would enhance his professional growth. A poster announcing the award winners will be displayed at the Spring Fling this Friday, May 9, from 4-6 pm at the French Science Center. Dr. Yu will receive $1,000 for his research activities.
2007:
The Carolinas Photonics Consortium (CPC) has selected BME post doctoral researcher Quincy Brown to receive $10,000 in seed funding for Endls Optics, the Duke spinoff company developing technology to measure the removal of breast tumors during breast conserving surgery. Associate BME Professor Nimmi Ramanujam leads the project. Brown received a Duke Cancer Center Young Investigator Award earlier this year.
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In September of this year, The NIH awarded BME post doctoral researcher Bing Yu and associate BME professor Nimmi Ramanujam with a phase I Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) grant. This will be a collaborative project between Endls Optics and Duke University. The research will focus on technology development and optical surveillance of surgical tumor margins in patients undergoing breast conserving surgery for cancer.
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Congratulations to Dr. Changfang Zhu of the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Dr. Zhu successfully defended her Ph.D. thesis on September 13th of this year. Her new position is with Boston Scientific.
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Congratulations to Dr. Melissa Skala of the Ramanujam Laboratory. On April 25th, Dr. Skala successfully defended her Ph.D. thesis. She has researched with the Ramanujam Laboratory since 2002. She will continue post doctoral research with Joseph Izatt, also of the Duke Biomedical Engineering Department.
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Congratulations to Emily Spataro, Christine McMahon and Hafeez Dhalla of the Ramanujam Laboratory. Ms. Spataro, Ms. McMahon and Mr. Dhalla all graduated from the Biomedical Engineering undergraduate program this year. We wish them the success with all of their future endeavors.
- MD/PhD candidate Gabriel Howles from BME, MEM candidate Charles Louison and three Fuqua MBA students won the elevator pitch and placed in the top 10 in a Rice University business plan competition this past March. The venture, called Spectrum Diagnostics, is based on a breast cancer margin assessment device developed in the lab of Associate BME Professor Nimmi Ramanujam. Thirty-six teams from across the nation were selected to compete in the annual competition.
- In February of this year, associate BME professor Nimmi
Ramanujam received a one year Duke Translational Research Institute award. This project will focus on optical surveillance of surgical tumor margins in patients undergoing breast conserving surgery for cancer. Lee Wilke, assistant professor
of surgery; and Joseph Geradts, professor of pathology are both collaborators on the project.
- The Duke Start-Up Challenge held its finals Saturday and Pratt did very well, with start-up teams with our faculty members taking first and second place. The winner was the "Oncoscope" team, which includes BME Assistant Professor Adam Wax, BME research scientist William Brown, BME Ph.D. student John Pyhtila and Master of Engineering Management student Sylvain Hanssen. They are developing optical biopsy systems and won $25,000. Oncoscope also picked up $5,000 for winning the Healthcare/Life Sciences Track. Runner up and $10,000 went to the "Spectrum Surgical" team, which includes BME Associate Professor Nimmi Ramanujam and BME Ph.D. student Gabriel Howles. They hope to market a breast cancer margin assessment device.
J.Quincy Brown, a postdoctoral
associate working for Ramanujam, was chosen recently as a recipient of a 2007 Duke Cancer Center Young Investigator Award. As part of the award, Brown was selected to present his work on assessment of breast physiology with optical biopsy at the Duke Comprehensive Cancer Center Annual Meeting.
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Melissa Skala, J. Quincy Brown, Stacy Millon and Bing Yu will present posters at the annual ECI conference in June of this year. This year the conference will be held in Naples, FL.
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