Entries in the Category "biomedical"
Graduate Study in Biomedical Imaging
Location: CWRU
Website: http://bme.case.edu/bmil/
Brochure: PDF
Message:
Here is an opportunity which you might not have considered: PhD study in biomedical imaging! We have multiple positions available for highly qualified domestic students under an NIH training grant. The focus of the training grant is “Interdisciplinary Biomedical Imaging.” We have many examples of students who have successfully moved into biomedical imaging from other undergraduate training programs such as electrical engineering, physics, computer science, and chemistry. Research involves MRI, SPECT, PET, image visualization/analysis software, imaging of cancer, molecular imaging agents, etc. We continue to accept applications from qualified individuals.
The training grant includes free graduate tuition, stipend, and travel award. Government fellowships are normally tax free.
Attached you will find a brochure describing our program and below is an abstract from our training program grant.
If you are interested in exploring this opportunity, please contact David Wilson (Professor of BME, david.wilson@case.edu), who is PI on the grant award. To be considered, you must apply to the BME or Physics PhD programs at Case. Normally, we will expect applicants to have a GPA > 3.5, excellent letters, and/or research/industrial experience.
Best regards,
David L. Wilson, PhD
Abstract:
The Interdisciplinary Biomedical Imaging Training Program will prepare predoctoral trainees to become leaders in organism-level, biomedical imaging research. Multi-disciplinary teams of engineers, physicists, biologists, and clinicians are required to advance biomedical imaging, especially with the advent of in vivo cellular and molecular imaging. We will create the next generation of interdisciplinary biomedical imaging scientists and engineers who will contribute to and lead such teams. Our training program will build upon recent research infrastructure awards and institutional investments totaling ≈ $37M in biomedical imaging. In addition to the creation of state-of-the-art imaging facilities, the number of imaging faculty members has increased from 3 in 1999 to 20. A training grant award will place students squarely in the center of on-going interdisciplinary/multidisciplinary research programs. Trainees will use new imaging facilities in the Case Small Animal Imaging Research Center, which includes 4 MRIs, micro-SPECT/CT, micro-PET, 3 bioluminescence, in vivo fluorescence, etc. Predoctoral trainees will be from the highly-rated departments of Biomedical Engineering and Physics, both of which have a long history of training in biomedical imaging. Trainees will conduct research projects combining enabling technologies in imaging with biomedical research. Each trainee will have a primary mentor who specializes in enabling technologies, or applications, and one or more co-mentors who specialize in biomedical research. A steering committee, realistic rules, and a student portfolio will ensure suitable research experiences. A comprehensive educational program will include a portfolio of imaging courses, including Cellular and Molecular Imaging and Interdisciplinary Imaging Discovery Group, a new course specially designed for interdisciplinary education. We will promote a culture of interdisciplinary research in a series of diverse activities during a designated Imaging Hour. A training grant will help ensure training of PhD’s in this area of critical need.
Relevance to Public Health.
Biomedical imaging enables early detection, assessment of therapy, and minimally-invasive treatment of disease. Especially with the advent of cellular and molecular imaging, biomedical imaging research requires persons with strong interdisciplinary training.
David L. Wilson, PhD
Robert Herbold Professor of Biomedical Engineering & Radiology
Work: 216-368-4099, Cell: 216-310-0302
Lab: 403 Wickenden, 368-8812
Email: david.wilson@case.edu
Undergraduate Research & Presentation Opportunities
Application Deadline: Many, see below
Location: CWRU and Cleveland
Website: http://www.case.edu/provost/source/opp/funding.htm
Flyer: PDF
Selected Text:
Summer Internships on Campus
Did You Know That All of These Opportunities Were On Campus During the Summer? Apply now!
Formal Summer Programs:
SOURCE Summer Funding (All Disciplines) – Deadline: February 16, 2009
SURES (Summer Undergraduate Research in Energy Studies)
Deadline: March 2, 2009
ACES (Summer Undergraduate Research Program for Minority Females)
Deadline: March 1, 2009
BME-REU (Biomedical Engineering - Research Experience for Undergraduates)
Deadline: February 1, 2009
Center for AIDS Research Minority Training Program - Deadline: February 13, 2009 5pm
CLiPS (Center for Layered Polymeric Systems)
Deadline: Inquire with program
CREATE (Case's Rising Engineers and Technological Entrepreneurs) Summer Design
Application - Deadline: Inquire with program
Heart, Lung, & Blood Minority Research Training Program
Deadline: February 1, 2009
OSEA - Ohio Science and Engineering Alliance Summer Program
Deadline: March 1, 2009
National Cancer Institute – Integrative Cancer Biology Program (at Case and other Institutions)
Deadline: January 21, 2009
Rainbow Babies & Children’s Hospital - Deadline: March 1, 2009
SPUR - Summer Program in Undergraduate Research sponsored by the Biology Department
and Funded by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Deadline: February 1, 2009
SURP – Summer Undergraduate Research in Pharmacology
Deadline: February 15, 2009
The Wellman Hill Political Science Internship (Political Science Department)
Deadline: February 13, 2009
Opportunities in Cleveland:
Chester Summer Scholars Program (at MetroHealth Medical Center) Deadline: February 13, 2009
Cleveland Clinic – Lerner Research Institute Undergraduate Research Opportunities
Cleveland Clinic – Lerner Research Institute BME Dept. Research Programs
Diabetes Association of Greater Cleveland
NASA (Some Cleveland Opportunities) - Deadline: February 22, 2009
For more information on these programs and off campus summer research visit the SOURCE website which has a link to each program at: http://www.case.edu/provost/source/opp/funding.htm