Athanasiou Student and Post-Doc Awards

Athanasiou ABME Student Award

The Kyriacos and Kiley Athanasiou Endowment was established in 2017 within the Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES) to promote biomedical engineering scholarship and honor the contributions of Dr. Kyriacos Athanasiou to the field. Dr. Athanasiou has had a broad impact on the field of biomedical engineering, particularly within the areas of musculoskeletal tissue engineering and translation of new technologies to clinical use. He also served as the editor-in-chief of the Annals of Biomedical Engineering (ABME) from 2009 to 2017. One goal of the endowment is to recognize excellence in future leaders of biomedical engineering by awarding the top papers published in ABME written by graduate students and post-doctoral scholars. The inaugural Athanasiou ABME Student Award Session was held at the 2018 BMES Annual Meeting.

Athanasiou ABME Student Award Recipients

2020	Edward Donnely, University College London, “Breast Reconstruction with a Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine Approach (Systematic Review)”
2020	Taylor Harris, Stanford University, “The Shrinking Brain: Cerebral Atrophy Following Traumatic Brain Injury”
2020	Megan Bland, Virginia Tech, “Development of the STAR Evaluation System for Assessing Bicycle Helmet Protective Performance”
2020	Eunjin Choi, Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, “A High-Fidelity Phantom for the Simulation and Quantitative Evaluation of Transurethral Resection of the Prostate”
2020	Eamon Campolettano, Virginia Tech, “Development of a Concussion Risk Function for a Youth Population Using Head Linear and Rotational Acceleration”
2020	William Decker, Wake Forest University, “Development and Multi-Scale Validation of a Finite Element Football Helmet Model”
2019	Navid Manuchehrabadi, University of Minnesota, and Meng Shi, Xi’an Jiaotong University, “Ultrarapid Inductive Rewarming of Vitrified Biomaterials with Thin Metal Forms”
2019	Maria Kalli, University of Cyprus, “Solid Stress Facilitates Fibroblasts Activation to Promote Pancreatic Cancer Cell Migration”
2019	Adam J. Dixon, University of Virginia, “In Vitro Sonothrombolysis Enhancement by Transiently Stable Microbubbles Produced by a Flow-Focusing Microfluidic Device"
2019	Chih-Kang Chang and Edward P. Washabaugh, University of Michigan, “A Semi-passive Planar Manipulandum for Upper-Extremity Rehabilitation”
2019	Zhuoqi Cheng, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, “A New Venous Entry Detection Method Based on Electrical Bio-impedance Sensing”
2019	Lee F. Gabler, University of Virginia, “Development of a Metric for Predicting Brain Strain Responses Using Head Kinematics”
2018	Eamon T. Campolettano, Virginia Tech, “Ranges of Injury Risk Associated with Impact from Unmanned Aircraft Systems”
2018	Harsimrat Singh, Imperial College London, “Robotic Surgery Improves Technical Performance and Enhances Prefrontal Activation During High Temporal Demand”
2018	Markus Horvath, MIT, "Towards alternative approaches for coupling of a soft robotic sleeve to the heart”
2018	Tim Horeman, Delft University of Technology, "In-vitro detection of small isolated Cartilage Defects: Intra-Vascular Ultrasound vs. Optical Coherence Tomography”
2018	Wing Yu Chan, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, "Mechanical and Clinical Evaluation of a Shape Memory Alloy and Conventional Struts in a Flexible Scoliotic Brace”
2018	He Liu, Imperial College London, "Augmented Reality Based Navigation for Computer-Assisted Hip Resurfacing: A Proof of Concept Study”

Selection Criteria

Athanasiou ABME student award recipients are selected in April each year. All papers with graduate student or post-doctoral scholar first authors that were published online in ABME in the preceding year (between April of the previous year and March of the award year) are considered for an award. In 2020, 167 papers met that criteria, so the awardees represented the top 4% of those papers. The total number and rate of citations and downloads, along with the impact and quality of each paper is considered. Each deputy editor-in-chief selects six finalists, from which the editor-in-chief selects the award recipients. More information on submission guidelines for those interested in consideration for an award, and recent publications in ABME can be found here:

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Award and Honorarium

Each awardee is invited to present their paper during the Athanasiou ABME Award Session, which is held during the BMES Annual Meeting. Awardees will receive a $500 honorarium, free BMES Annual Meeting registration, and a plaque similar to the one pictured here.