Awards

Elizabeth Mountz and Jinghang Li recently were awarded the undergraduate recognition for impressive poster at the ADRD poster day! Their poster focuses on neural asymmetry in relation to working memory and markers of preclinical AD disease.

Our BioE undergraduate students, Ellie Mountz and Jinghang Li, received a summer internship for their joint research project to investigate neural differentiation in preclinical Alzheimer’s Disease. We are very proud of them as they develop a research program that can be pursued remotely during the COVID-19 pandemic. Congratulations, Ellie and Li! “Pitt Bioengineering students Jinghang…

Hunsi Jayaprakash, a junior at the Computer Science Department, is starting a yearlong fellowship this summer from the CNBC, a joint research and educational program through Pitt and CMU. She’ll apply her computational skills to enhance understanding of asymmetrical neurodegeneration and its relationship with Alzheimer’s Disease. Congratulations, Hunsi!

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…

Dr. Howard Aizenstein won the Outstanding Professional Achievement Award from the University of Illinois Department of Mathematics!

Statistical Methods in Imaging Conference at the University of Pittsburgh organized by Dr. Dana Tudorascu.

Dr. Helmet Karim won outstanding poster (graduate student category) at the 17th annual WPIC Research Day with the poster entitled “Functional Activation During Emotion Reactivity in Late-Life Depression: Early Markers of Treatment Response.”

Helmet Karim won the award for the best spotlight talk on Bioengineering Day 2017 entitled “Functional Activation During Emotion Processing in Late-Life Depression: Early Markers of Treatment Response.”