Ms. Rui Zhu, Ph.D. Candidate in Biomedical Engineering, received the Outstanding Modeling and Simulation Award at the American Conference of Pharmacometrics meeting on October 6, 2009 for her work entitled: Isoniazid Pharmacokinetics in HIV Perinatally Exposed Infants: The Role of NAT-2 Enzyme Maturation. Rui was one of four poster award recipients out of over 160 posters presented, and was the only student to receive an award.

Subu Goparaju was one of the "Infoscions" who attended the recent “thought sharing and collaboration event that brings together the best academicians, researchers, practitioners and thought leaders” at the USC Viterbi School.

Tzung "John" Hsiai hopes to help clinicians distinguish cardiac emergencies requiring immediate surgery from chronic problems manageable with drugs and lifestyle change.

The American Society for Nanomedicine (ASNM) recognized PhD candidate Jae Kyoo Lee’s research presentation, "Observing the Death of Cell on the Nanoscale: Real-time Molecular Imaging of Retinal Ganglion Cell Apoptosis under Elevated Pressure", by a “Young Investigator Award” at its inaugural conference, October 22-25, 2009 (Potomac, Maryland).

Faculty members from the Ming Hsieh and Computer Science departments teamed up with a Keck School professor to win the Best Technology Award at a recent conference on implantable medical devices held at USC.