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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
Duquesne University Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences
Location: Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, PA
Website: http://www.pharmacy.duq.edu/
Flyer: PDF
Full Text:
The Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences of Duquesne University is seeking gifted graduates of Biology and Chemistry programs who are interested in pursuing Master's and Doctoral degrees in the Pharmaceutical Sciences. Particular Disciplines of study include: Medicinal Chemistry, Pharmaceutics, and Pharmacology/Toxicology. Students accepted into the Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences are provided with tuition remission and a competitive stipend. Graduates of our program enter professional careers in the Pharmaceutical industry, government and academia.
All faculty of the Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences are actively engaged in scholarly research. Sources of funding for our research programs include competitive awards from the National Institutes of Health, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, private foundations and industry. As evidence of our standard of excellence, Duquesne University was recently ranked among the top 20 Small Research Universities in the nation (Chronicle of Higher Education, January 12, 2007 issue).
If you know any student that will be graduating this spring, or has recently received a Bachelor's degree in Chemistry or Biology who may be interested in our graduate program, I would urge you to have them go to our web site at www.pharmacy.duq.edu. or contact me at: johnsond@duq.edu. Also, if you would like me to come to your institution for a presentation, I would be delighted to do so.
Sincerely Yours,
David A. Johnson, Ph.D.
Director of Graduate Studies
Associate Professor of Pharmacology and Toxicology
Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences
Mylan School of Pharmacy
Duquesne University
Pittsburgh, PA 15282
phone: 412-396-5952
FAX: 412-396-4660