[BIC-announce] Fwd: 2014 Geddes and Davis Award winners

[Sylvain Baillet, Dr]

Kudos to Yiming Xiao, who just won one of the two 2014 John F. Davis Awards from McGill's Biomedical Engineering!

Yiming, currently PhD student at the BIC in the Collins group, got this award for his paper entitled "Multicontrast multiecho FLASH MRI for targeting the sub-thalamic nucleus" published in Magnetic Resonance Imaging 30 (2012) 627–640.

Check out his great website too: http://yimingxiao.weebly.com to lean more about him.

Cheers - Sylvain.

ps/ Yiming is also one of our 2013 BIC Art Competition winners. Print-outs are on their way, by the way.
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=624622307579670&set=a.624622174246350.1073741833.587793117929256&type=3&theater


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Sylvain Baillet, PhD

MNI Killam and FRSQ Senior Scholar
Interim Director, McConnell Brain Imaging Centre
Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill University

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From: "Maryam Tabrizian, Prof." <maryam.tabrizian at MCGILL.CA<mailto:maryam.tabrizian at MCGILL.CA>>
Subject: 2014 Geddes and Davis Award winners
Date: February 19, 2014 8:37:12 AM EST
To: <217L-BME_ACADEMICS at LISTS.MCGILL.CA<mailto:217L-BME_ACADEMICS at LISTS.MCGILL.CA>>

Dear BME department members and students:

On behalf of Dr. Kearney and the departmental scholarship and awards committee, I am pleased to share with you the names of our 2014 Geddes and Davis awardees. The Geddes award is given for an outstanding PhD thesis and is valued at $750 and the Davis award for a significant contribution in the field of Neurological and Psychiatric disorders and is valued at $500 for the first winner, and $250 for the second winner. For more information on the awards please  visit our webpage under “students”.

2014 Leslie A. Geddes Award: TOMARO-DUCHESNEAU/Catherine

Dr. Catherine Tomaro-Duchesneau received the award for her PhD thesis in Biomedical Engineering entitled "Microencapsulated ferulic acid esterase active Lactobacillus fermentum for the reduction of inflammation and cholesterol in metabolic syndrome".   Her PhD thesis research is of high importance as it could lead to a promising new formulation for the prevention/treatment of metabolic diseases and for many other clinical applications such as managing heart diseases and obesity.
2014 John F. Davis Award: MEKHAIL/Mina: 1st place
   XIAO/Yiming:  2nd place:

This award is attributed to Mr Mina Mekhail, currently PhD student in our Department, for his paper presented in MRS 2013 Fall meeting in Boston-USA and published in MRS 2013 proceeding entitled "A Novel Injectable Chitosan Sponge Containing Brain Derived Neurotrophic Factor (BDNF) to Enhance Human Oligodendrocyte Progenitor Cells' (OPC) Differentiation".

This award is attributed to Mr Yiming Xiao, currently  PhD student in our Department, for his paper entitled "Multicontrast multiecho FLASH MRI for targeting the sub thalamic nucleus" published in Magnetic Resonance Imaging 30 (2012) 627–640.

Please join me in congratulating these three outstanding young scientists for their remarkable achievements!

Withe my best wishes,
Maryam Tabrizian
Chair of the scholarships and awards committee

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