2019 Athanasiou ABME Student Awards
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IOMEDICAL ENGINEERING SOCIETY
2019 Athanasiou ABME Student Awards (Published online 25 November 2019)
The Kyriacos and Kiley Athanasiou Endowment was established in 2017 within the Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES) to promote biomedical engineering scholarship and honor the contributions of Dr. Kyriacos Athanasiou to the field. One goal of the endowment is to recognize excellence in future leaders of biomedical engineering by awarding the top papers published in the Annals of Biomedical Engineering (ABME) by graduate students and post-doctoral scholars. The second Athanasiou ABME Student Award Session was held at the 2019 BMES Annual Meeting. Six awardees were selected, five of which were able to attend BMES to present their papers at the session (Fig. 1). The Athanasiou ABME Student Awards were selected from all papers with graduate student or postdoctoral scholar first authors that were published online between April 2018 and March 2019. There were a total of 102 papers that met the criteria, with 83 written by graduate students and 19 written by post-doctoral scholars. The number and rate of citations and downloads, along with the impact and quality of the papers were used to select the awardees. Each deputy editor-in-chief selected six finalists, from which the editor-in-chief selected the award winners. Two of the papers had two co-first authors, so there were eight total awardees. Following the inaugural student award session in 2018, there are now a total of 14 Athanasiou awardees.1,2,7,8,10,12 The first author from each paper was contacted to notify them and ask them to present their work at the award session. The papers covered a wide range of topics including biomaterials, biomechanics, and medical and therapeutic devices. Manuchehrabadi et al. developed a new method for warming vitrified biomaterials.11 Materials for tissue transplantation can be preserved in a vitrified state, but successful rewarming is often a challenge. This new method used inductive warming with commercially available metals, and maintained high viability in a vitrified carotid artery after rewarming. Kalli et al. evaluated the effects of compressive forces on pancreatic fibroblasts.9 These cells play an important role in pancreatic cancer progression, and can produce excess extracellular matrix that contributes to increased compressive forces within the tumor. The results of this study showed that com-
pressive stress stimulates fibroblast activation and promotes cancer cell migration. A better understanding of the mechanisms behind these findings could lead to new therapeutic interventions. Dixon et al. evaluated the efficacy of large diameter microbubbles for use in sonothrombolysis.5 This clot dissolution technique normally uses commercially available microbubbles that are smaller diameter and have longer lifetimes, but the larger diameter bubbles showed promise for enhancing thrombolysis rates. Chang et al. developed a semi-passive rehabilitation robot for patients with neurologic or orthopedic disorders.3 The device was validated throug
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