April 10, 2008 —
BME student research highlighted at 2008 Grodins Symposium
The 12th Annual Fred S. Grodins Symposium of graduate student research from the Viterbi School’s Department of Biomedical Engineering took place on April 5 at a new venue this year – the Galen Center. As in the past, this year’s event was organized by a committee of BME doctoral students selected by department chair Michael Khoo. The organizing committee included Brittany Kay, Suvimol “Ming” Sangkatumvong, Christian Gutierrez, Phillip Hendrickson, Vinod “Tim” Nayar and Jay Mung. Research conducted by BME graduate students was presented in the form of 72 posters and 12 platform talks. Sponsors of the event included the Alfred E. Mann Institute for Biomedical Engineering at USC (AMI-USC), Genentech, Reichert, Amgen (Global Epidemiology Division), Advanced Medical Optics, Medtronic Spinal and Biologics, The USC Stevens Institute for Innovation, and the USC Biomimetic Microelectronics Systems Engineering Research Center. In addition, the Stevens Institute established an award for the “most innovative project”.
The top prize, the Grodins Graduate Award, presented for academic excellence and outstanding research, went to Lisong Ai for his work: “Micro-intravascular sensor to link fluid shear stress and oxidative stress in vivo” and for maintaining a cumulative GPA of 4.0. USC Stevens Institute presented the “Most Innovative Project” award to Ronalee Lo for her work on “A passive refillable MEMS ocular drug delivery device”. Other awards included:
For platform presentation
First Prize: Ronalee Lo – A passive refillable MEMS ocular drug delivery device.
Runner-up: Joy Hsu – Animal to human scaling of anticancer drug pharmacokinetics via a physiologically based pharmacokinetic model.
Runner-up: Markus Hauschild – Restoring reaching movements using signals from posterior parietal cortex.
For poster presentation
First Prize: Jeremy Fishel – Measurement of sliding friction-induced vibrations for tactile feedback control.
Runner up: Gabriela Mallen-Ornelas – A MEMS microfluidic platform for focal chemical stimulation.
Runner up: Bosun Kwon – Modified gelatin crosslinked with silane as delivery carriers.
