BME Briefs

Adam selected for the Athanasiou ABME Student Award Session at BMES

The second annual Athanasiou ABME Student Award Session will be held at the 2019 BMES Annual Meeting. Just six awardees have been selected from all papers first-authored by students and postdocs in 2018 in the Annals of Biomedical Engineering.  Hossack Lab's Adam Dixon (PhD '16) is one of the six.

Link to Adam's award-winning paper

Elizabeth earns the WMIS Women In Molecular Imaging Network (WIMIN) Award

The World Molecular Imaging Society (WMIS) has awarded Elizabeth the Women In Molecular Imaging Network (WIMIN) Award and a student travel stipend for the upcoming World Molecular Imaging Congress (WMIC). She was selected for both awards based on the scientific merit of her submitted abstract.

New publication in the journal Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Elizabeth is first author on a new paper published in Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology!

Validation of normalized singular spectrum area as a classifier for molecularly targeted microbubble adherence.

AUTHORS: Elizabeth B Herbst, Sunil Unnikrishnan, Alexander L Klibanov, F William Mauldin Jr., John A Hossack.

Salerno lab attended ISMRM 2019 in Montreal, QC, Canada

International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM) is the biggest society for magnetic resonance ressearchers. ISMRM holds its annual meeting every spring. This year, ISMRM's 27th annual meeting is hold in Montreal, QC, Canada from May 11-16.Our salerno lab members Ruixi Zhou and Junyu Wang attended the conference and presented their works as digital posters.

Ruixi's Paper Accepted by MRM

Congratulations! Ruixi's paper SPARCS: Free‐breathing cine imaging with motion‐corrected reconstruction at 3T using SPiral Acquisition with Respiratory correction and Cardiac Self‐gating just published on MRM!

For more information, please check on: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/mrm.27763 

Speechless: You Don’t Need to be a Singer to Lose Your Voice

With help from Coulter, James Daniero (profiled in the story) and Don Griffin are validating a new injectable filler for reconstructing the larynx.

Read More: Speechless: You Don’t Need to be a Singer to Lose Your Voice

Lampe Lab Has Article in Press in Journal of The American Chemical Society

James Tang, a fifth-year Ph.D. candidate, is the lead author with Assistant Professor Kyle Lampe of “Stimuli-Responsive, Pentapeptide, Nanofiber Hydrogel for Tissue Engineering.” The article is in press in the Journal of The American Chemical Society. Cameron Mura, a senior scientist in the Bourne Lab associated with UVA’s Department of Biomedical Engineering and School of Data Science.

Always be waiting on something

There is a wonderfully intoxicating process of building your lab as an independent investigator. All the decisions are yours now. Who becomes part of your team, how you run the lab, when you have lab meetings, where do you order reagent X from..the possibilities are endless.

Signing my peer review: Unintended consequences and gender

Roughly two years ago, I began to sign every peer review I did for journals. It resulted directly from a review on an article that I received that had glaring issues and made me wonder “Would they have been this sloppy if they had to attribute their name to this work?”

Grant Hack: Avoid Writing too Much

If you are anything like me, then the last phase of your grant writing process is madly trying to shorten everything into the allotted space constraints. I no longer remember if I got this tidbit from elsewhere, or discovered it myself in the last few years…

However, one thing that has significantly reduced the stress and time of the final push in grant writing is that I trick myself into writing less to begin with. I increase my line spacing by about 25% as I write the first draft. As my draft looms towards the maximum allowable length then I know I have to stop. Invariably, I go slightly over that hard stop, but then I swap the line spacing back to 1 (or 1.1 for my preferred NIH Latex template).

I have typically found that sharpening word selection and focus is for the sake of clarity and no longer about page limits (mostly). You can tailor this extra padding according to how much overage you typically have (1.25 for 25%, 1.5 for 50%, 2 for 100%, etc.). I could imagine you can do this with margins instead, keeping them a healthily 20-50% larger than the specifications for a grant or making figures larger to begin with as well (another reason to love Latex for grant writing).

Blog post originally written May 2018