Medical Engineering Fellowships

Quick Facts

Objective: Multi-year fellowship supporting work in highly innovative yet classically under-funded areas of healthcare research such as medical device development, new algorithms, software for use in clinical practices and the engineering of medical environments.

Eligibility: Nominations submitted by department heads for graduate engineering students at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Boston University (BU).

Status: Not accepting fellowship nominations at this time.

Overview

The Medical Engineering Fellowship are funded by CIMIT & MIT and CIMIT & Boston University, respectively. Each award goes to one outstanding student at each school per year.

1. MIT/CIMIT Medical Engineering Fellowship:

Nominations: Submitted by department heads
Award amount: $55,000 for stipend & tuition; $500 for travel to present

2. BU/CIMIT Applied Healthcare Engineering Fellowship:

Nominations: Submitted by faculty research advisors
Award amount: Standard stipend, tuition, & fees; $500 for travel to present

Additional Information

For questions and further information, please contact Steven Schachter, MD, CIMIT Chief Academic Officer and Neurotechnology Program Leader, at sschacht@bidmc.harvard.edu.

Past Recipients

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YEAR	AWARD RECIPIENT	INSTITUTION	AWARD TYPE	RESEARCH
2011	Bilgic, Berkin	MIT	Medical Engineering Fellowship	Algorithmic design at the intersection of signal processing and medical imaging reconstruction with the ultimate goal of dramatic imaging speedup in practical clinical settings. Advisor: Elfar Adalsteinsson, PhD
2011	Cevik, Elif	Boston University	Medical Engineering Fellowship	The design and fabrication of an optically activated microstimulator to be used in chronic implants for people with central nervous system (CNS) diseases. Advisor: M. Selim Ünlü, PhD
2011	Monroe, Margo	Boston University	Medical Engineering Fellowship	Developing and optimizing innovative, compact diagnostic technology for the doctor’s office to facilitate patient care. Advisor: M. Selim Ünlü, PhD
2011	Sander, Christin Y.	MIT	Medical Engineering Fellowship	Cutting-edge technology that combines MRI and PET for the evaluation of the nervous system. Advisors: Elfar Adalsteinsson, PhD, and A. Gregory Sorensen, MD
2011	Slocum, Jr., Alexander	MIT	Medical Engineering Fellowship	A fundamentally new type of artificial knee joint that will not wear out because it will use rolling instead of sliding contact as is currently used. Advisor: Martin Culpepper, PhD
2011	Wessendorf, Ashley	MIT	Medical Engineering Fellowship	Developing a medical device that will assist brain-injured children with impaired motor function by expanding their kicking repertoire. Advisor: Dava J. Newman, PhD
2011	Wu, Grace	Boston University	Medical Engineering Fellowship	Designing a comprehensive platform for CD4 counter for HIV detection. Advisor: Muhammad H. Zaman, PhD
2010	Auslander, Joel, MD	Newton-Wellesley Hospital	Young Clinician	Evaluation of Hospitalist Handoff Communications
2010	Berry, Jay, MD, MPH	Children’s Hospital Boston	Young Clinician	Web-based Integrated Care Plan to improve illness management for children with complex medical needs
2010	Bianchi, Matt T., MD, PhD	Massachusetts General Hospital	Young Clinician	Novel home monitoring approaches to insomnia diagnosis and treatment
2010	Bitton, Asaf, MD, MPH	Brigham and Women’s Hospital	Young Clinician	Innovative Aspects of the Mount Pleasant PCMH (Patient-Centered Medical Home) Demonstration
2010	Cohen, Adam B., MD	Partners HealthCare	Young Clinician	Specialty Consultation and Triaging
2010	Herzig, Shoshana, MD, MPH	Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center	Young Clinician	Reducing Medication use fragmentation across transitions in care
2010	Kolandaivelu, Kumaran, MD, PhD	VA Boston Healthcare System	Young Clinician	Develop objective & standardized tool for screening patients for medication adherence - biochemical assay of compliance
2010	Wang, C. Jason, MD, PhD	Boston Medical Center	Young Clinician	Technology to advance children's health (TeACH) to support personalized care for preterm very-low-birth weight infants (VLBW< 1500g)
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 and 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 and 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 and 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 and 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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CIMIT Chief Academic Officer and Neurotechnology Program Leader
sschacht@bidmc.harvard.edu

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