2025 Vevo International Student Award Recipients
Name: Cortland Johns, Purdue University
Title: Left Ventricular Strain Mapping Utilizing Novel Strain Tracking Techniques
Name: Elanz Ghajar-Rahimi, Purdue University
Title: Cardiac remodeling in chronic hypertension during murine pregnancy
2024 Vevo International Student Award Recipients
Name: Anshuman Dasgupta, RWTH Aachen University
Title: Improving Drug Delivery to Brain Tumors Using Nonspherical Microbubbles, Ultrasound and Multidrug Micelles
Name: Elanz Ghajar-Rahimi, Purdue University
Title: Reverse remodeling of the left ventricle during recovery from pressure overload in a refined murine model
Name: Theresa Kosmides, Case Western Reserve University
Title: Novel EDB-FN Targeted Nanobubble Ultrasound Contrast Agents for Pancreatic Cancer Diagnosis
Name: Salma Sultana Tunny, Monash University
Title: Characterization of Forster Resonance Energy Transfer for Various Fluorophore-Quencher Pairs for Photoacoustic Imaging
Name: Sara Aboeleneen, University of Delaware
Title: Cancer cell membrane camouflaged gold nanoshells for photopthermal therapy of triple-negative breast cancer
2023 Vevo Research Award Recipients
EMIM 2023
Name: Anshuman Dasgupta
Title: Microbubble Shape as a Novel Design Parameter to Improve Ultrasound-Mediated Drug Delivery
Name: Asmaa Elshafei
Title: Enhancing tumour-targeted drug delivery by DMOG-induced vascular promotion
Vascular/Oncology
Name: Amanda Labora
Title: A Novel Ultrasound-guided Technique to Generate Liver Metastasis in Murine Cancer Models
Bioengineering
Name: Wei Zhang
Title: Ultrasensitive US Microvessel Imaging of Hepatic Microcirculation in the Cirrhotic Rat Liver
Name: Xinyue Huang
Title: Photoacoustic-Strain Imaging for Evaluating Deep Tissue Microcirculation
Open Category
Name: Tiziano Lottini
Title: Study of the effects of a combination therapy in subcutaneous mouse models of colorectal cancer (CRC) with ultrasound and photoacoustic imaging
Name: Christopher Salinas
Title: Short-wave Photoacoustic Imaging with Heavy Water Coupling: Application to Skin Cancer and Wound Healing
Name: Wonjun Yim
Title: Enhanced photoacoustic detection of heparin in whole blood via melanin nanocapsules carrying molecular agents
Name: Shazia Bano
Title: Photo Activation of Multi-Inhibitor Liposomes Creates a Response-rich Tumor Microenvironment, Remediate Desmoplasia and Doubles Overall Survival in Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma
Name: Nidhi Parihar
Title: Light responsive organometallic nanoprobes for the anticancer therapy & optoacoustic imaging application
Molecular Imaging
Name: Emily Lupton
Title: Photoacoustic imaging of angiotensin-II induced myocardial hypertrophy in mice
Name: Robert Nikolai
Title: Ultrasound and Photoacoustic Imaging of the Brain via Laser-Activated Perfluorocarbon Nanodroplets
Cardiovascular
Name: Felix Trogisch
Title: The Fibrogenic Transcription Factor Sox9 Controls Mesenchymal Activation Of Endothelial Cells And Drives Fibrotic Disease
Name: Martin Schneider
Title: Combined near infrared photoacoustic imaging and ultrasound detects vulnerable atherosclerotic plaque
2022 Vevo Research Award Recipients
EMIM Special Category
Name: Elena Rama
Title: Longitudinal Characterization of Biohybrid Tissue-Engineered Vascular Grafts Scaffold Resorption and Tissue Remodelling via Molecular MR and US.
Name: Emily Lupton
Title: Photoacoustic imaging of oxygen saturation in the skeletal muscle of spontaneously hypertensive rats.
Vascular/Oncology
Name: Agata Janowska
Title: Ultra high Frequency Ultrasound Monitoring of Melanomas Arising in Congenital Melanocytic Nevi: A Case Series
Name: Atsushi Askura
Title: Endothelial Cell Signature and Potential of Muscle Stem Cell Revealed by Single-Cell RNA-sequence
Open Category
Name: Vincent Sier
Title: Longitudinal Visualization of Murine Vascular Remodeling and Blood Flow Dynamics by Ultra High-Frequency Ultrasound Imaging
Name: Dana Wegierak
Title: Decorrelation Mapping for Analysis of Nanobubble Dynamics in Tumours
Name: Anamik Jhunjhunwala
Title: In vivo photoacoustic monitoring of stem cell viability with a caspase3-responsive nanosensor
IEEE Special Award
Name: Lenin Chinchilla-Atencia
Bioengineering
Name: Wonjun Yim
Title: 3D-Bioprinted Phantom with Human Skin Phototypes for Biomedical Optics
Cardiovascular
Name: Coenraad Withaar
Title: The effect of sex-specific responses to obesity, hypertension and diabetes mellitus in heart failure development are associated with sex-specific circulation biomarker profiles
Name: Ana Carolina Omoto
Title: High-Frequency 4D Ultrasound Evaluation of Temporal Changes in Endocardial Surface Strain after Myocardial Infarction
2021 Vevo Research Award Recipients
Open Category (Round 1)
Name: Teresa Oranges MD, PhD
Title: Ultra-high frequency ultrasound in melanoma management: a new combined ultrasonographic-histopathological approach.
Name: Steven Weiner, MD
Title: Using duplex ultrasound in an aesthetic practice.
Name: Rossana Izzetti, DDS, PhD
Title: Ultra-high frequency ultrasound of labial glands in Sjögren's Syndrome.
Vascular/Oncology
Name: Alwin De Jong, PhD
Title: Inhibition of BMP9 and BMP10 signaling by the ALK1-Fc Ligand Trap enhances systemic inflammation and increases vein graft atherosclerosis.
Open Category (Round 2)
Name: Alexander Dhaliwal
Title: Microbubble shell composition alters organ biodistribution and focused ultrasound-enabled delivery to orthotopic breast tumors: a mutlimodal, quantitative evaluation of lipid microbubble shell fate.
Name: Azaam Aziz, PhD
Title: Medical imaging of microrobots: toard in vivo applications.
Name: Christopher Salinas
Title: Short-wave infrared photoacoustic spectroscopy for lipid and water detection.
Name: Mohammad Saad, PhD
Title: EGFR-targeted multi-modal molecular imaging and treatment in a heterocellular model of head and neck cancers.
Name: Ali Kamali
Title: The golden hour: capturing the early outcomes of traumatic brain injury and stoke.
Molecular Imaging
Name: Una Goncin
Title: Aptamer-functionalized microbubbles: ultrasound molecular imaging using a fluorescent anti-P-selectin aptamer for imaging inflammation in murine models of inflammatory bowel disease.
Cardiovascular
Name: Nitchawat Paiyabhroma
Title: Brain hypoxia influences long term cardiac function assessed by 4D US-Derived cardiac strain after mild TBI.
Name: Sibren Haesen
Title: Pyridoxamine protects against cardiotoxicity after doxorubicin chemotherapy.
Name: Yohannas Getiye Estifanos
Title: Electronic Cigarette Vaping With Or Without Heating Induces Differential Pathological Remodeling In The Lungs And Right Heart.
2020 Vevo Travel Award Recipients
Vascular
Name: Dr. Kristy Foote, University of Cambridge
Title: Enhancing Base Excision Repair of Oxidative DNA Damage Delays Vascular Aging in Mice
Presenting at: American Heart Association Vascular Discovery Scientific Sessions 2020, Chicago USA
Name: Dr. Eiman Aboaziza, West Virginia University School of Medicine
Title: Maternal Vaping During Pregnancy Increases Arterial Stiffness in Adolescent Offspring
Presenting at: Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco (SRNT) 2020 Annual Meeting
Oncology
Name: Dr. Shazia Bano, Wellman Center for Photomedicine, Harvard Medical School Massachusetts General Hospital
Title: In vivo quantitative molecular imaging for receptor-specific contrast and image guided surgery of glioblastoma
Presenting at: AACR 2020, San Diego, CA USA
Open Category
Name: Dr. Tonja Emans, University of Auckland
Title: Optimizing Reperfusion and Recovery from Ischemic Stroke
Presenting at: New Zealand Medical Sciences Congress 2020, Queensland, New Zealand
Engineering
Name: Mr. Danial Sharifi Kia, University of Pittsburgh
Title: Passive Transmural Myocardial Fiber Kinematics in the Right Ventricle: Effects of Pressure Overload
Presenting at: ASME 2020 Summer Biomechanics, Bioengineering and Biotransport (SB3C) Conference (Virtual)