Lab News

Exciting News

April 29, 2013 Graduate student Justin Ryan is featured on the ASU News website for winning the top prize in the Cardiovascular Applications category of the Mimics Innovation Awards competition for his project titled “Virtual Total Artificial Heart Implantation for Improved Device Eligibility Criteria. [Link]
     
April 2013 IPALab receives the 2013 Mimics Innovation Award for the poster "Virtual Total Artificial Hearth Implantation for Improved Device Eligibility Criteria" by IPALab coauthors Justin Ryan, Rachel Austin, Jonathan Plasencia, and David Frakes. [Link]
     
April 2013 Graduate student Haithem Babiker is awarded as 2013 ASME Sumer Bioengineering Conference Ph.D. Paper Competition Finalist.
     
April 16, 2013 Professor David Frakes is awarded the 2013 ASU Faculty Achievement Award – Best Innovation.
     
April 9, 2013
Professor David Frakes is awarded the 2013 SBHSE Outstanding Graduate Faculty Award.
     
April 9, 2013 Graduate student Haithem Babiker is awarded the 2013 SBHSE Ph.D. Student Leadership Award.
     
March 29, 2013 Graduate student Haithem Babiker and Professor David Frakes win a $100,000 Mayo grant to pursue advances in the treatment of cerebral aneurysms for their project “EndoVantage Interventional Suite (EVIS) for personalized clinical management of cerebral aneurysms.” [Link]
     
February 2013 Graduate student Justin Ryan and Professor David Frakes are featured in February's Raising Arizona Kids Magazine for creating 3D heart models that give cardiac surgeons at Phoenix Children's Hospital more precise imaging prior to surgery. [Link]
     
February 22, 2013 Graduate student Christine Zwart successfully defends her thesis and will be awarded a PhD. Congratulations Chrstine!
     
January 23, 2013 Graduate student Haithem Babiker passes his Prospectus and is now a PhD Candidate. Congratulations Haithem!
     
December 2012 Professor David Frakes is selected as a 2012 ASU Fulton Schools of Engineering College Marshal for the Fall 2012 Commencement.
     
November 2012 Professor David Frakes is a 2012 IEEE Conference on Bioinformatics and Bioengineering Best Paper Competition Finalist as a co-author.
     
October 25, 2012 Graduate Student Rafeed Chaudhury is elected as AEMB National Student Treasurer at the 2012 Annual BMES Meeting.
     
October 19, 2012 Heart in Your Hand is featured on FierceHealthIT. [Link]
     
October 17, 2012 Graduate Student Rafeed Chaudhury receives 2012 AEMB National Travel Award.
     
October 10, 2012 Heart in Your Hand is featured on 3DVIA. [Link]
     
September 19, 2012 Graduate Student Rafeed Chaudhury receives 2012 BMES Student Travel Award.
     
September 11, 2012 Undergraduate Student Girish Pathangey receives 2012 FURI Travel Grant.
     
August 2012 Professor David Frakes receives National Science Foundation REU Supplement as Co-PI.
     
August 20, 2012 Graduate Student Rafeed Chaudhury receives Block grant travel funding.
     
August 16, 2012 Graduate student Rafeed Chaudhury receives GPSA travel grant.
     
May 2012 Professor David Frakes receives the Phoenix Children’s Hospital Leadership Circle Grant as Co-PI.
     
May 9, 2012 Undergraduate student Girish Pathangey is accepted to the Fulton Undergraduate Research Initiative (FURI) program for Fall 2012.
     
April 19, 2012 Professor David Frakes receives the Biomedical Engineering Professor of the Year Award from the School of Biological and Health Systems Engineering for extraordinary dedication to teaching and student success, as recognized by biomedical engineering students.
     
April 19, 2012 Undergraduate student Amy Blatt is awarded the Robert H. Chamberlain Memorial Scholarship from the School of Biological and Health Systems Engineering in recognition of extraordinary achievements and inspiration.
     
April 19, 2012 Undergraduate student Chris Workman and graduate student Rafeed Chaudhury are inducted into the National Biomedical Engineering Honor Society, AEMB.
     
April 18, 2012

Graduate student Berkay Kanberoglu wins the GPSA Teaching Excellence Award for exemplifying excellence in education and classroom instruction as the admin TA for the EEE202 (Circuits I) Lab course in Fall 2011.

     
April 16, 2012 Graduate student Christine Zwart wins the ASU Faculty Women's Association Distinguished Graduate Student Award.
     
April 16, 2012 Professor David Frakes wins the ASU Faculty Women’s Association Outstanding Faculty Mentor Award.
     
March 2012 Professor David Frakes wins ASU Fulton Schools of Engineering Infrastructure Competition as PI.
     
March 30, 2012 Graduate Student Justin Ryan receives Honorable Mention for the 2012 NSF GRFP Competition.
     
March 30, 2012 Undergraduate student Girish Pathangey is selected for the 2012 Shumway Surgical Internship at Stanford University School of Medicine.
     
March 28, 2012 Graduate student Christine Zwart receives NSF/ASEE Engineering Innovation Fellowship Program internship with Boeing: University Integration.
     
March 9, 2012 Undergraduate student Amy Blatt was selected to participate in the 2012 Summer Institute in Biomedical Optics at the Wellman Center for Photomedicine in collaboration with the Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and Technology (HST). She will be performing research on photodynamic therapy, a cancer treatment, under the direction of Dr. Tayyaba Hasan.
     
January 28, 2012

Professor David Frakes wins the National Science Foundation CAREER Award. This prestigious NSF CAREER Award recognizes young engineers and scientists who demonstrate the potential to become research and education leaders in their field. The award will provide approximately $430,000 over five years.

     
December 20, 2011 IPALab receives a grant award from the ASU/Mayo Seed Grant Program.
     
November 18, 2011 Graduate Student Christine Zwart receives Block grant travel funding.
     
September 20, 2011 Graduate student Christine Zwart receives GPSA travel grant.
     
September 16, 2011 Graduate student Christine Zwart nominated for the GPSA Teaching Excellence Award for Fall 2011 teaching activities.
     
August 11, 2011 Graduate student Thomas Boltz receives The Unfors Award of Excellence for the Best Radiation Measurements Article in 2010 for his paper, "An anthropomorphic beating heart phantom for cardiac X-ray CT imaging evaluation," awarded by the American College of Medical Physics.
     
July 5, 2011 Graduate student Christine Zwart selected as Graduate student representative for the Graduate College Council.
     
May 25, 2011 Professor David Frakes receives the Beginning Grant in Aid for the American Heart Association Western States Affiliate.
     
May 25, 2011 Graduate Justin Ryan is awarded People's Choice Poster at the Science Foundation of Arizona Grand Challenges Summit 2011.
     
May 2011 Professor David Frakes is nominated for the ASU Faculty Women’s Association Outstanding Faculty Mentor Award.
     
May 2011 Undergraduate Jonathan Plasencia receives and NSF REU research supplement in collaboration with Lockheed Martin.
     
April 2011 Professor David Frakes receives the Arizona State University Top 5% Excellence in Instruction Award.
     
April 2011 Professor David Frakes receives a SenSIP I/UCRC research grant in collaboration with Lockheed Martin.
     
April 2011 Undergraduate Jonathan Plasencia is awarded National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship.
     
February 2011 Professor David Frakes receives the Outstanding Faculty Award from the IEEE Phoenix Section.
     
February 2011 Professor David Frakes receives a computing grant from the ASU High Performance Computing Center.
     
January 2011 Professor David Frakes receives an Arizona Biomedical Resarch Commission grant.
     
November 2010 Graduate Justin Ryan is awarded the Science Foundation of Arizona Fellowship.
     
September 22, 2010 Professor David Frakes is named the Rosann Donato Chair of Research by the Brain Aneurysm Foundation.
     
August 30, 2010 Professor David Frakes receives the Brain Aneurysm Foundation Research Grant.
     
June 17, 2010 Graduate student Chelsea Gregg receives the Outstanding Poster Award, given by University of California Systemwide Biomedical Engineering Symposium at UC Davis. UC Davis
 

 

 

 

May 13, 2010

Undergraduate student Justin Ryan receives the Moeur Award from Arizona State University for outstanding academic performance.

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May 4, 2010 Professor David Frakes is elected 2010 Chair of the IEEE Phoenix Section SPS/COM Chapter.

 

 

 

 

April 21, 2010 IPALab receives the 2010 Mimics Innovation Award for the poster "Patient-Specific Models for Improved Surgical Planning of Tetralogy of Fallot Repair" by IPALab coauthors Jonathan Plasencia, Haithem Babiker, and David Frakes.

 

 

 

 

April 16, 2010 Graduate student Christine Zwart and undergraduate student Megan Henriksen receive the HD Frakes IPALab Performance Scholarship for outstanding research performance in the field of image processing.

 

 

 

 

April 16, 2010 Undergraduate student Chelsea Gregg receives the Distinguised Senior Award from the School of Biological and Health Systems Engineering for exceptional academic performance and service.

 

 

 

 

April 14, 2010 IPALab receives a grant award from ASU's Women and Philanthropy Society as top vote getter in Category B for the proposal "Fluid Dynamic Assessment of Endovascular Treatment for Cerebral Aneurysms" (PI: David Frakes).

 

 

 

 

March 8, 2010 4-D Imaging, Inc., founded by professor David Frakes, receives a Phase I SBIR Award from Army Research Lab for the proposal "A Real-time Video Restoration Processor for Mitigating Atmospheric Distortion" (Key Personnel: David Frakes).

 

 

 

 

January 31, 2010 Professor David Frakes' text book "Introductory Biomechanical Design Tools" wins 3rd Place in the Lulu Online Publishing Book Sales Contest.

 

 

 

 

August 25, 2009 IPALab receives a grant award from the Western Alliance to Expand Student Opportunities for the proposal "Cerebral Aneurysm Phantoms Created with Rapid Prototyping" (PI: David Frakes).

 

 

 

 

May 30, 2009 IPALab receives an unrestricted gift of research equipment from ev3, Inc., to support cerebral aneurysm research at ASU (PI: David Frakes).

 

 

 

 

May 30, 2009 Professor David Frakes receives the Centennial Professor of the Year Award from the ASU Student Government. [Link]

 

 

 

 

April 21, 2009 Graduate Student Haithem Babiker and undergraduate student Jonathan Plasencia receive the HD Frakes IPALab Performance Scholarship for outstanding research performance in the field of image processing.

 

 

 

 

December 1, 2008 IPALab receives a grant award from the ASU/Mayo Seed Grant Program for the proposal "MRI Detection of Glioma Invasion" (CoPI: David Frakes).