Leanne recently presented her work titled: The effect of extracellular matrix properties on polarized light-based analysis of collagen fiber alignment in soft tissues at the SPIE Photonics West Conference. Her strong work was rewarded with the best student paper in this sub conference (Polarized Light and Optical Angular Momentum for Biomedical Diagnostics 2022) within Photonics […]
Category: Awards
Dr. Reiter Wins NIRA Award
Congratulations to alum Dr. Alex Reiter on winning a 2022 NIRA (New Investigator Research Award) award. This award was recently announced at the 2022 Annual Orthopaedic Research Society (ORS) meeting in Tampa, Florida.
Chelsey Dunham Awarded BME Doctoral Student Research Award
Congratulations to 4th year PhD student Chelsey Dunham. She was awarded a 2018 Doctoral Student Research Award and presented her research at the annual BME day. Chelsey received the award for the work she has completed on our post traumatic joint contracture project. See a list of all BME award winner here.
Dr. Lake is Awarded Early Career Award from ASME
Spencer Lake, assistant professor of mechanical engineering & materials science, has been awarded the Y.C. Fung Early Career Award from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), the highest award for young investigators in bioengineering. Check out the entire WashU press release here.
Dr. Lake receives Early Career Award from JOR
Dr. Spencer Lake has been selected to receive the 2016 Early Carer Award from the journal of Orthopaedic Research. The award highlights the work of a researcher early in his or her career who published a paper in the journal in the prior calendar year. Read the entire WashU press release here.
WashU collaborative team honored for bioinspired sensor research
A collaboration of engineers and researchers from Washington University in St. Louis’ School of Engineering & Applied Science and School of Medicine led by Viktor Gruev, has received the highest award from the IEEE for developing a bioinspired imaging sensor for medical imaging applications. Read entire WashU press release here.