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Accomplishments

Employee of the Year

Congratulations to Erica Tamburo for her nomination for the Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic Research Employee of the Year award. Two awards were presented to staff at the 18th Annual Department of Psychiatry Research Day event on June 7, 2018.
Awards

Alumni Achievement Award

Howard Aizenstein (BS, ’86, mathematics; MS, ’88; PhD, ’93, computer science; MD ’95), LAS Alumni Achievement Award. Aizenstein is an internationally recognized physician-scientist who has made significant contributions to neuroimaging data and uses that data to improve the lives of people with cognitive impairment and depression. He is the Charles F. Reynolds III and Ellen G. Detlefsen…
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Summer Research Internship

Thomas Skoff has been accepted to the Swanson School of Engineering Summer Research Internship!
Awards

Outstanding Professional Achievement Award

Dr. Howard Aizenstein won the Outstanding Professional Achievement Award from the University of Illinois Department of Mathematics!
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Biomedical Engineering Summer Internship Program (BESIP)

Congratulations to Matthew Rosenblatt for his acceptance into the Biomedical Engineering Summer Internship Program (BESIP) at NIH, which is a 10-week program allowing rising senior bioengineering students to participate in cutting-edge biomedical research projects under the mentorship of world-class scientists in NIH laboratories.
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Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES) conference

Nishita Muppidi’s project on predicting brain age using machine learning models was accepted to the Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES) conference in Atlanta, Georgia!
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Women of FileMaker’s Steven Blackwell Travel Scholarship

Congratulations to Erica Tamburo, winner of the Women of FileMaker’s Steven Blackwell Travel Scholarship to attend the 2018 FileMaker’s Developer Conference in Grapevine Texas.
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Summer Research Institute

Dr. Akiko Mizuno and Dr. Helmet Karim were accepted into and attended the Summer Research Institute at Vanderbilt University. The Research Career Institute in the Mental Health of Aging (CIMA) is a year-long mentoring program that includes a 5-day Summer Research Institute and 12 months of ongoing research mentoring.
Publication

Can fMRI signals from the day after taking an antidepressant tell us about its effects in a year? — A study of late-life depression

Dr. Helmet Karim and Maxwell Wang published their paper on prediction of treatment response in late-life depression using a computational model. Acute trajectories of neural activation predict remission to pharmacotherapy in late-life depression. Karim et al. (2018). Neuroimage: Clinical
Milestones

OCNC 2017

Dr. Akiko Mizuno was accepted to the prestigious Summer Computational Neuroscience Course (OCNC 2017) at Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST). See more about the program here!