CIMIT Fellowships and Awards

Since receiving the CIMIT Prize, our pace of develop-ment has increased dramatically, and the work is already gaining significant recognition. I am confident that the research will have an impact on primary care in the coming years that would not have been possible without this support.

- John Moore, MD, doctoral candidate at the MIT Media Lab and Winner of the 2009 CIMIT Prize for Primary Healthcare

CIMIT Fellowships & Awards

In addition to awarding Grants to fund early stage, collaborative research projects for improving patient care, CIMIT also provides Fellowships and Awards to advance the careers of clinicians and engineers and to recognize researchers whose work embodies the CIMIT mission.

» Click on a column title to sort awards by: year, award recipient, institution, and award type.

YEAR	AWARD RECIPIENT	INSTITUTION	AWARD TYPE	RESEARCH
2010	Browning, Cassandra	Boston University	Medical Engineering Fellowship	To develop a method for the transdermal injection of PLG-encased, nano-particles of drug or vaccines into the subcutaneous, dendritic-cell rich stratum corneum layer of the skin. Advisor: Mark N. Horenstein, PhD
2010 - 2009	Calabro, Katherine	Boston University	Medical Engineering Fellowship	To make the detection and diagnosis of gastrointestinal diseases faster, easier and cheaper through optical techniques. Advisor: Irving Bigio, PhD
2010	Cao, Quigqing	Boston University	Medical Engineering Fellowship	To develop an integrated microfluidic platform for detection and diagnosis of H1N1 pandemic influenza virus. Advisor: Catherine Klapperich, PhD
2010	Hussein, Amiora	Boston University	Medical Engineering Fellowship	To develop new tools for clinical prediction of fracture risk in the spine. Advisor: Elise Morgan, PhD
2010 - 2009	Pritchard, Christopher	MIT	Medical Engineering Fellowship	To develop a novel device for local controlled release of anti-inflammatory agents. Advisor: Robert Langer, PhD
2010 - 2009	Tsai, Tsung-Han	MIT	Medical Engineering Fellowship	To develop novel biomedical applications of optical coherence tomography and optical coherence microscopy. Advisor: James Fujimoto, PhD
2010	Turjman, Alexis	MIT	Medical Engineering Fellowship	To develop a computational model that indicates where cerbrovascular aneurysms are likely to form and how each potential therapy, intervention and implanted device will affect the intracranial aneurysm’s natural history. Advisor: Elazer R. Edelman, MD
2010 - 2009	Zhang, Peng	Boston University	Medical Engineering Fellowship	To develop and characterize submicron particulates to nucleate bubbles in a site-specific manner using FUS. Advisor: Tyrone Porter, PhD
2009	Cronin, Claire, MD, MBA	Newton-Wellesley Hospital	Young Clinician	Novel 3D reconstruction breast pathology reporting system.
2009	Moy, Marilyn L., MD	VA Boston Healthcare System	Young Clinician	A novel system to monitor physical activity and associated physiological responses in the home environment with application to patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD).
2009	Ott, Harald, MD	Massachusetts General Hospital	Young Clinician	Myocardial regeneration based on perfusion decellularized cardiac matrix scaffolds.
2009	Riviello, Robert, MD	Brigham & Women's Hospital	Young Clinician	Innovative wound care technology for low-income settings.
2009	Rosen, Jennifer E., MD	Boston Medical Center	Young Clinician	Optically guided differential diagnosis in thyroid nodules
2009	Spiegel, Joan, MD	Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center	Young Clinician	A novel pressure-sensing syringe for improved airway control
2009	Wolf, Gerhard, MD	Children's Hospital Boston	Young Clinician	Optimizing mechanical ventilation of critically ill children through the development of continuous non-invasive imaging at the bedside
2009 - 2008	Kashif, Faisal	MIT	Medical Engineering Fellowship	To greatly enhance patient care through the use of model-based integration, analysis, and interpretation of heterogeneous clinical data to improve clinical decision-making processes. Advisor: George Verghese, PhD
2009 - 2008	Leong, Pui Leng	Boston University	Medical Engineering Fellowship	Modulating cellular behavior with mechanical stimuli in order to enhance the biomechanical and biological viability of tissue-engineered cartilage and bone. Advisor: Elise Morgan, PhD
2009 - 2008	Ogunnika, Olumuyiwa “Muyiwa”	MIT	Medical Engineering Fellowship	The development of an integrated circuit for a handheld electrical impedance probe for the assessment of neuromuscular diseases by Electrical Impedance Myography (EIM). Advisor: Joel Dawson, PhD
2009 - 2008	Orten, Burkay Birant	Boston University	Medical Engineering Fellowship	To estimate the important physiological parameters from dynamic contrast enhanced CT images in order to assist in the diagnosis, progress monitoring and outcome prediction of disorders including, but not limited to, stroke and cancer. Advisor: W. Clem Karl, PhD
2009 - 2008	Rapoport, Benjamin	MIT	Medical Engineering Fellowship	To build thoughtcontrolled (neuromotor) prosthetic limbs for paralyzed patients. Advisor: Rahul Sarpeshkar, PhD
2009 - 2008	Zhang, Jane Yuqian	Boston University	Medical Engineering Fellowship	The development of high throughput micro/ nanofluidic technology for medical diagnostics at the point of care. Advisor: Catherine Klapperich, PhD
2008	Estrada, Carlos R., MD	Children's Hospital Boston	Young Clinician	A novel functional bladder tissue engineering with silk scaffolds.
2008	Golby, Alexandra, MD	Brigham & Women's Hospital	Young Clinician	Functional and structural imaging to optimize brain tumor resection.
2008	Merchant, Faisal, MD	Massachusetts General Hospital	Young Clinician	A novel method to guide RF ablation of atrial fibrillation.
2008	Morris, Stephanie, MD	Newton-Wellesley Hospital	Young Clinician	Expanding techniques in ovarian cryopreservation and transplantation for female cancer patients
2008	Nimgaonkar, Ashish, MD	Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center	Young Clinician	Endoluminal magnetic resonance imaging for improved detection and characterization of pancreatic lesions
2008	Singh, Satish, MD	Boston Medical Center	Young Clinician	Optically-guided biopsy tools for dysplasia detection during gastrointestinal endoscopy.
2007	Colson, Yolonda, MD, PhD	Brigham & Women’s Hospital	Young Clinician,	Special Study Award: A local drug delivery device for lung cancer patients that could minimize surgical resection of normal lung tissue and possibly prevent the spread or recurrence of cancer.
2007	Davidson, Michael J., MD	Brigham & Women’s Hospital	Young Clinician	Percutaneous repair of damaged heart valves without the need for open-heart surgery.
2007	Ellsmere, James, MD	Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center	Young Clinician	A novel device to effectively manage care of patients after gastric surgery to control obesity.
2007	Kohane, Daniel S., MD, PhD	Massachusetts General Hospital	Young Clinician	Controlled release technology to prevent problems caused by breathing tubes in premature babies.
2007	Marshall, Audrey Chung, MD	Children's Hospital Boston	Young Clinician	A positioning device to enable minimally invasive, in utero, cardiac intervention for babies with congenital heart disease.

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Steven Schacter, MD, Chief Academic Officer,

Career Development Awards

8.10.10 ANNOUNCEMENT:
CIMIT Names 2011 Miles and Eleanor Shore Fellow. A career development award to enable interdisciplinary contribution

CIMIT Career Development Awards allow an individual with established expertise in one medical or technical area to acquire knowledge in a second area that will allow him or her to make unique subsequent inter-disciplinary contributions.

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CIMIT Prize for
Primary Healthcare

7.1.10 ANNOUNCEMENT:
Instant Testing for Sore Throats wins the CIMIT Primary Healthcare Prize DNA nanobarcodes could deliver accurate results on whether pharyngitis is caused by strep, flu or any variety of other diseases.

The CIMIT Prize for Primary Healthcare is a national competition open to graduate and undergraduate engineering students from accredited engineering programs. The competition seeks ideas for technologic innovations with great potential to support and catalyze improved delivery of healthcare at the frontlines of medicine. The top three student entrants (individuals or teams) will receive $150,000, $100,000 and $50,000, respectively, to help advance their winning clinically-relevant, primary care solutions. CIMIT’s goal in offering these major awards is to encourage engineering students to develop technological innovations that have great potential to enhance delivery of primary healthcare.

This CIMIT Prize is made possible because of a generous gift from the Gelfand Family Charitable Trust, which will support the competition annually over the next five years.

Medical Engineering Fellowships

11.23.09 ANNOUNCEMENT:
CIMIT Awards Eight Graduate Fellowships to Students at MIT, BU

Fellowships provide promising graduate students with the opportunity to develop projects and aggregate data in preparation for more comprehensive research later in their careers. These energetic graduate students are supervised by knowledgeable, experienced mentors in nationally prominent universities, which suggests that the research they start today could lead to better patient care in the future.

Graduate Student Engineering Fellowships

Graduate Student Engineering Fellowships offer multi-year support for graduate engineering students to work in highly innovative yet traditionally under-funded areas of healthcare research. Medical device development, new algorithms, software for use in clinical practices, and the engineering of medical environments are all essential to accelerate the adoption of technologies into patient care.

Through the generous support of CIMIT Friends, MIT and Boston University, these Fellowships cover tuition and stipend plus $500 for travel to present at a national society meeting.

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Young Clinician Research Awards

CALL FOR NOMINATIONS:
June 20 - September 15, 2010

The Young Clinician Research Award recognizes outstanding clinicians within CIMIT Consortium eligible hospitals, early in their careers, who are engaged in the development of transformative innovations in healthcare delivery workflows enabled by novel, interoperable medical technologies. Those eligible include clinical researchers such as Fellows, Instructors, and Assistant Professors. Each award is worth $50,000.

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Edward M. Kennedy Award for Healthcare
This award was named for Senator Kennedy due to his constant support of innovation in health care, including his interest in and tremendous support of CIMIT. Other than physician research awards, this is the only award that CIMIT gives to recognize an outstanding team whose work in the previous year embodies the CIMIT mission of innovative collaboration.

10.28.08: 2008 Kennedy Award goes to Cancer Advanced-Technology Team