CIMIT names winners of Poster Competition

CIMIT recently named four winners in its annual Poster Competition in medical research. The following were chosen:

Most innovative research, $2,000. Seemantini Nadkarni, PhD (Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard). Title: Development of laser speckle imaging: a new technique for the evaluation of unstable atherosclerotic plaque. He is an instructor at Harvard Medical School.

Potential impact on patient care, $1,500. Chong Wing Yung, PhD (Children’s Hospital Boston/Draper). Title: Microfluidic blood cleanser for sepsis therapy. He is post-doctoral research fellow in surgery at CHB and Harvard Medical School.

Best student poster, $1,000 each. Christina Pacak, PhD (Children’s Hospital Boston/Harvard). Title: Bioengineering conduction tissue for repair of pediatric heart block. She is in post-doctoral training at CHB; and Cameron Morland (Boston University). Title: An acoustic mobility aid for the visually impaired. He is a PhD student in the department of Cognitive and Neural Systems at BU.

The awards were made in conjunction with the CIMIT Innovation Congress 2007, which drew more than 600 doctors, engineers, scientists, students and government officials.