2022 Annual Conference

1st Place: "Multimodal visualizations of a performed TAVR and chimney-stenting procedure within a reanimated human heart and subsequent modeling."

Michael Bielecki¹, Amanda DeVos¹, Francesco Bianchini², Paul A. Iaizzo¹. 1. University of Minnesota; 2. Fondazione Policlinico Universitario A. Gemelli IRCCS Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore

2nd Place (tie): "Phosphorylation of mitochondrial calcium uniporter in heart failure."

Maddie Kelly, Iuliia Polina, Bridget Nieto, Bong Sook Jhun, and Jin O-Uchi, Lillehei Heart Institute, Cardiovascular Division, Department of Medicine, University of Minnesota Medical School

2nd Place (tie): "Complexity AF score as a marker of instability of atrial fibrillation."

Jieun Lee², Henri Roukoz³, Elena G. Tolkacheva¹. 1. Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Minnesota; 2. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Minnesota; 3. Division of Cardiology, University of Minnesota

3rd Place (tie): "Novel approach to discriminate between appropriate and inappropriate ICD therapy."

Trenton Callaway, Samuel Newell University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Talkachova Lab

3rd Place (tie): "ECG restitution on exercise stress test."

Xiangzhen Kong¹, Brett Levac², Michael Risbano³, Alena Talkachova². 1. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Minnesota; 2. Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Minnesota; 3. Department of Medicine, University of Pittburgh

1st Place: "Examining the potential cross-talking between CD44 and integrins in glioblastoma cell migration."

Marcus D. Kelly. University of Minnesota

2nd Place (tie): "Determinants of developability and evolvability of synthetic proteins as scaffolds."

Adam McConnell¹, Benjamin Hackel². 1. Biomedical Engineering, University of Minnesota; 2. Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of Minnesota

2nd Place (tie): "Modeling amyloid-beta transport in hiPSC-derived models of the blood-brain barrier."

Paulina M. Eberts¹, Casim A. Sarkar², Samira M. Azarin¹. 1. Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of Minnesota; 2. Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Minnesota

1st Place (tie): "A novel ex vivo method for rapid quantification of post traumatic brain injury lesion volumes using ultrasound."

Isaac H. Clark, Andrew W. Grande, Walter C. Low. Department of Biomedical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering Graduate Program, Department of Neurosurgery, and Graduate Program in Neuroscience, University of Minnesota

1st Place (tie): "Studying the putative effect of transcranial magnetic stimulation on human cognitive control with hyperdimensional computing."

Lulu Ge¹, Alik S. Widge², Keshab K. Parhi¹. 1. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Minnesota; 2. Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Minnesota

2nd Place (tie): "Treatment of inflammation with bioelectronic medicine: spleen-targeted ultrasound and electrical stimulation."

Claire Kaiser¹; Dan Zachs¹; Adam Tuma²; Hubert Lim ^1,2. 1. Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Minnesota; 2. Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, University of Minnesota

2nd Place (tie): "Exploring implantable micromagnetic neurostimulation as an alternative to electrode stimulation."

Renata Saha¹, Zachary Sanger², Dusty Van Helden³, Robert Bloom¹, Onri J. Benally¹, Kai Wu¹, Denis Tonini¹, Walter Low⁴, Susan Keirstead⁵, Theoden I. Netoff², John Osborn³, Jian-Ping Wang¹. 1.Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Minnesota; 2. Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Minnesota; 3. Department of Surgery, University of Minnesota; 4. Department of Neurosurgery, University of Minnesota; 5. Stem Cell Institute, University of Minnesota

1st Place: "The rate of edema during ex vivo lung perfusion."

Ryan Nadybal¹; Alejandra Felix²; Emma Schinstock³; Paul A. Iaizzo¹. 1University of Minnesota; 2. University of Southern California; 3. Medtronic

2nd Place (tie): "Evaluation of the shape memory response of monofilament polylactide (PLA) for knit structures."

Michaela Andrews, Julianna Abel, and Susan Mantell, University of Minnesota

2nd Place (tie): "Human-handheld robot collaboration in a line drawing task that exceeds human precision and robot workspace."

Yusra Farhat Ullah, Nathan D. Davies, and Timothy M. Kowalewski, Medical Robotics and Devices Lab, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Minnesota

3rd Place (tie): "Home-based individualized analysis of postural instability in PD patients."

Ali Nouriani, Robert McGovern, and Rajesh Rajamani, University of Minnesota

3rd Place (tie): "Tackling data inequality and poverty in medical image analysis."

Le Peng and Ju Sun, University of Minnesota

3rd Place (tie): "Experiments, modelling, and simulations for a gel bonded to a rigid substrate."

Sichen Song^1,2; Ronald A. Siegel^1,3; Manuel A. Sánchez⁴; M. Carme Calderer²; Duvan Henao⁵. 1. Department of Pharmaceutics, University of Minnesota; 2. School of Mathematics, University of Minnesota; 3. Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Minnesota 4. Instituto de Ingeniería Matemática y Computacional, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile; 5. Instituto de Ciencias de la Ingeniería, Universidad de O’Higgins

1st Place: "Mechanical characterization of the pregnant murine uterus."

Emily Hoffmann and Kyoko Yoshida, University of Minnesota

2nd Place: "Cryopreservation of rat tissue slices for pharmacological applications."

Srivasupradha Ramesh¹, Joseph Sushil Rao², Bat-Erdene Namsrai², John Bischof¹ .1. Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Minnesota; 2. Division of Solid Organ Transplant, Department of Surgery, University of Minnesota

3rd Place (tie): "A materials science approach to treating acute respiratory distress syndrome."

Clara Ciutara, Sourav Barman, Steven Iasella, and Joseph Zasadzinski, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of Minnesota

3rd Place (tie): "Physical demonstration of vitrification of liter scale CPA systems and rewarming of liter scale CPA systems using a 120KW radio frequency (RF) coil."

Lakshya Gangwar¹; Zonghu Han¹; Mikaela Hintz¹; Jacqueline P. Allen¹; Michael Etheridge¹; Robert C. Goldstein²; John C. Bischof^1,3. 1. Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Minnesota; 2. AMF Life Systems; ³Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Minnesota