Student/Post-doc News

BME Merit Fellowship Award

Hesamoddin Jahanian was awarded the BME Merit Fellowship. Hesamoddin is a third year PhD student who works with Professor Luis Hernandez-Garcia and Professor Douglas Noll. His area of specialization is biomedical imaging and his research topic is fast, high SNR cerebral perfusion measurement using MRI. His research aims to improve arterial spin labeling (ASL) technique so that it can be used routinely in clinical applications for: 1) baseline cerebral perfusion measurements in both White Matter and Grey matter; and 2) functional neuroimaging. Selection criteria for the award included: academic excellence, clarity of research plan, and progress toward degree. The new fellowship generated a great deal of interest and the selection process was extremely competitive. Congratulations!

Posted on September 17, 2008, 11:14 am