Congratulations to Seda, Lydia, Bharat and teams. All three papers got accepted to the 2019 IEEE International Conference on BioInformatics and BioEngineering.
Jiawei Ge and team win the UMD-NCI Partnership for Integrative Cancer Research grant competition. PhD student Jiawei Ge will be supported through NCI CRTA (Cancer Research Training Award) fellowships starting in the Fall 2019.
Thank you to Dr. Jackson Yang, Professor Emeritus and President and CEO at Advanced Technology and Research Corporation, for the generous donation to support medical robotics research on the Flycyle.
Congratulations to Lydia Zoghbi for receiving the Dean’s Fellowship along with her acceptance to the PhD program in mechanical engineering at UMD.
Hamed Saeidi’s confidence-based robotic surgery project has been nominated for the Invention of the Year in Healthcare at the UMD’s annual celebration of research and innovation in 2019. (http://www.otc.umd.edu/news/news_story.php?id=12028)
Nice work Star, Jiawei, Michael and teams. All three papers have been accepted to the 2019 Medical Image Computing & Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI) Conference in Shenzhen, China.
Congratulations to Michael Kam and Jiawei Ge for passing the PhD Qualifying Exam.
The team has received grant (1R01HL143468) from the National Institutes of Health – National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NIH-NHLBi) on the optimization of aortic modeling.
Nicolas Sarfaraz presented work on the “Automation of the ‘Big Bubble’ Hydro-Dissection Method for DALK Cornea Transplant Surgery” at the Hamlyn Symposium on Medical Robotics on June 26th, 2018. N Sarfaraz, S Guo, T Schroeder, W.G. Gensheimer, J.U. Kang, A Krieger. Automation of the “Big Bubble” Hydro-Dissection Method for DALK Cornea Transplant Surgery. Hamlyn Symposium…
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Tyler Schroeder and Justin Opfermann presented work on “Autonomous Electrosurgery for Tumor Resection Using a Multi-Degree of Freedom Electrosurgical Tool and Visual Servoing” and “Minimally Invasive Soft Robotic Tissue Manipulator for Safe Autonomous Surgery” at the IROS conference on September 27, 2017.