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Grants and Awards (2013 - )

  • ​Fellowship Award - 1 Aug 2017:  Soroosh Sanatkhani, PhD student with The MeDCaVE, advised by Dr. Menon and enrolled in University of Pittsburgh's Dept of Bioengineering, was awarded the 2017-18 Leonard H. Berenfield Graduate Fellowship in Cardiovascular Bioengineering for the proposal titled, "Imaging Based Three-dimensional Appearance Models for Left Atrial Appendage Classification and Stasis Risk Stratification in Atrial Fibrillation".  
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  • Grant Award - 16 March 2016: Dr. Menon has been awarded the 2016 Faculty Development Fund (FDF 2016) grant award from Duquesne University for the proposal titled, "3D Printing as a Pre-Surgical Planning Tool for Personalized Therapy."  The FDF award funds this project between August 2016 to August 2018.
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  • Grant Award - 26 March 2015: NIH R01 proposal titled, "Geometric Surrogates for Clinical Management of Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms", involving intimate collaboration with The MeDCaVE, awarded $1.7 Million over 5 years (starting in April 2015), through University of Texas at San Antonio (PI: Dr. Ender Finol; Co-investigators: Drs. P.G. Menon & S. Avril (Mines-Saint-Etienne)).  This study also received an American Heart Association (AHA) Pre-Doctoral Fellowship award funded for 2 years, starting 1 July 2015, to Mirunalini Thirugnanasambandam, PhD candidate at UTSA. Dr. Menon serves as a consultant on her AHA pre-doctoral award and also serves as a PhD thesis committee member.
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  • FELLOWSHIP:  Dr. Menon has been selected as a Winter 2015 Carnegie Science Communication Fellow, with the Carnegie Science Center, Pittsburgh, PA.  Fellows are researchers, graduate students, and other STEM or science-based professionals who have been certified by Carnegie Science Center as excellent communicators about current science. Fellows work with the Science Center to learn communication strategies to convey often-complex scientific concepts to lay audiences – and to inspire the public’s enduring interest in science and technology. Read more on the CMU news article.
   
  • GRANT AWARD: The MeDCaVE receives funding from a collaborative grant proposal titled, "Pre-Clinical Readiness Testing of Breast Palpation Aid for Home and Primary Care," from the Highmark Disruptive Health Technology Institute (DHTI) grant program, administered by the Institute for Complex Engineered Systems (ICES) at Carnegie Mellon University. The project PI is Prof. James F. Antaki from Carnegie Mellon University's Biomedical Engineering Department. The objective of this proposal is to equip the primary care physicians with a sensitive visualization tool to detect and track the size, shape, stiffness and location of a palpable breast mass, to screen for breast cancer lesions.
 
  • 11 Aug 2014: QuantMD / The MeDCaVE advances through the first round of reviews and qualified amongst the top four teams in the running for the NASA NSBRI SMARTCAP 2014 Cycle 3 grant for novel cardiac diagnostics technology!
 
  • FELLOWSHIP IN ISRAEL:  Dr. Menon has been selected for the 2014 Faculty Fellowship Summer Institute in Israel sponsored by the Jewish National Fund. Awardees are invited for a two-week fellowship in Israel to meet with professionals and experts in various sectors, such as government, industry, education, and media to learn more about the Israel of the 21st Century, including its scientific and technological advances and achievements. Out of hundreds of applicants, ten were selected for this competitive fellowship. In addition to receiving an invitation to Israel, awardees have the opportunity to engage in academic exchanges with experts related to their respective fields of study to encourage a collaborative environment.  Read more. Also, reported in Carnegie Institute of Technology (CIT) press releases for May 2014 :- http://www.cit.cmu.edu/media/mentions/index.html. See the highlights of this amazing fellowship in beautiful Israel, at the FF2Israel Press page.
                       -  Review the progress on this grant as reported at the May 2014 CIRC Review meeting.
  • BEST PAPER AWARD: Congratulations to The MeDCaVE for winning the Best Paper Award at the 2013 Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI), 4th International Workshop on Statistical Atlases & Computational Models of the Heart (STACOM), at Nagoya, Japan,  for our paper titled, "Patient-Specific Hemodynamic evaluation of an Aortic Coarctation under Rest and Stress conditions." Read more
 
  • POSTER PRESENTATION AWARD: Congratulations to Abhiram Rao and The MeDCaVE for winning the second place in the Poster Presentation Competition at the 2013 ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition (IMECE) Annual Meeting, at Chicago, for our paper titled, "Patient-specific surgery strategy selection and virtual surgical planning for Tetralogy of Fallot (ToF)."  Read more

Conferences & Invited Presentations (2013 - )

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