2020 Athanasiou ABME Student Awards
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Annals of Biomedical Engineering, Vol. 48, No. 12, December 2020 (Ó 2020) pp. 2701–2702 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10439-020-02689-5
Editorial
2020 Athanasiou ABME Student Awards (Published online 20 November 2020)
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 third Athanasiou ABME Student Award Session was held during the 2020 BMES Virtual Annual Meeting. Six awardees were selected to present their papers at the session. The presentations were pre-recorded with a live question and answer session. The Athanasiou ABME Student Awards were selected from all papers with graduate student or post-doctoral scholar first authors that were published online between April 2019 and March 2020.1,3,7,8,10,12 There were a total of 167 papers that met the criteria. The overall impact and quality of papers were considered as well as the number of citations and downloads each paper received. In the third year of student awards there are now a total of 20 Athanasiou awardees.2,4–6,9,11,13–17,20 The first author from each paper was contacted to notify them and ask them to present their work during the award session. The papers covered a wide range of topics including tissue engineering, injury biomechanics, computational modeling, and surgical simulation. Donnely et al. reviewed tissue engineering approaches to breast reconstruction.10 Most of the studies reviewed were in vitro or animal studies, but several human case series were included. Scaffolds used to support tissue growth were either biological (collagen or decellularized tissue matrix) or synthetic. Some studies implanted cells with fibroblast growth factor in scaffolds to enhance tissue regeneration. The authors suggested that future work should address whether implanted cells and growth factors can improve vascularity of regenerated tissue, which is currently a major limitation for larger tissue volumes. Bland et al. developed helmet evaluation methods for bicycle helmets to differentiate impact performance of available models.1 An evaluation metric (STAR value) was used to summarize concussion risk based on
linear and rotational head kinematics from laboratory impact tests. For the sample of helmets tested, road helmets and helmets with slip planes had lower STAR values indicating better impact protection. Campolettano et al. developed a concussion risk function using head impact data collected from youth football players between the ages of 9 to 14.3 A previously developed brain injury metric (GAMBIT)18,19 was used to summarize impact severity in terms of linear and rotational head kinematics for all impacts, which included 15 that resulted in a diagnosed concus
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