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Early Career Achievement Award

Presented to Dorin Panescu "For groundbreaking research in radio frequency (RF) cardiac catheter ablation, the invention and development of cardiac ablation mapping systems, and systems of multiple electrodes"

EMBS Service Award

Presented to Swamy Laxminarayan "For outstanding and extraordinary contributions and services in launching the IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine as the Founding Editor-in-Chief, and broadening the scope of activities in EMBS"

EMBS Career Achievement Award

Presented to Willis J. Tompkins "For a meritorious career in biomedical engineering education as exemplified by excellence in classroom teaching, promotion of design and hands-on experience in the learning process, and publication of textbooks"

EMBS Student Paper Competition (sponsored by The Whitaker Foundation)

Region Finalists

• Region 1: Harold Bien, SUNY at Stony Brook, "Cardiac Cell Networks on Elastic Microgrooved Scaffolds"
• Region 2: Fariyal Ahmed University of Pennsylvania, "Controlled Release and Stealthy Circulation of Polymersomes"
• Region 3: Mark Wachowiak, University of Louisville, "Generalized Mutual Information Similarity Metrics for Multimodal Biomedical Image Registration"
• Region 4: Zachary Hilt, Purdue University, "A Biomems Sensor Platform Based on a Cantilever with a Precisely Patterned Environmentally Sensitive Hydrogel"
• Region 5: Kathryn Simpson, Rice University, "Quantification of S. Aureus Adhesion to Fibronectin Using Optical Tweezers"
• Region 6: Wojciech K. Timoszyk, University of California, Irvine, "Second Generation Robotic Systems for Studying Rodent Locomotion Following Spinal Cord Injury"
• Region 7: Christina Cately, Carleton University,"Design of a Health Care Architecture for Medical Data Interoperability and Application Integration"
• Region 8: Bernd Messnarz, Graz University of Technology,"A New Spatiotemporal Regularization Method for Estimating the Cardiac Transmembrane Potential"
• Region 10: Yan Sun, Nanyang Technological University, "Cardiac Rhythm Tracking in Electrocardiographic Signals by Morphological Transform-Based Singularity Detector"

Open Finalists

• Jonathan Brown, Louisiana Tech University, "Nanoengineered Polyelectrolyte Microcapsules as Fluorescent Potassium Ion Sensors"
• John L. Tan, Johns Hopkins, "Feel the Forces: Using an Array of Posts to Map Single Cell Generated Traction Forces"
• Wei He, Rutgers University, "Nucleus Shape Recognition for an Automated Hematology Analyzing System
• Daniel Mocanu, Boston University, "Biventricular Defibrillation with Sequential Shocks Using Patient-Derived Computational Models"
• Jan Lammerding, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, "Quantitative Measurements of Active and Passive Mechanical Properties of Adult Cardiac Myocytes"
• Paul Yoo, Case Western Reserve University, "Selective Stimulation of the Hypoglossal Nerve: A Fine Approach to Treating Obstructive Sleep Apnea"

First Place
Harold Bien (left side)

Second Place
Kathryn Simpson (second from left)

Third Place (Tie)
Jan Lammerding (second from right)
J. Quency Brown (right side)

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