At the 13th Imaging Network of Ontario Symposium in London (ON), Nisrin Abou-Seido, Jennifer Andrea, Kaci Carter, and Maggie Hess represented the Perk Lab brilliantly. Between them they authored 5 posters and 3 oral podium papers. During the conference, I kept receiving praises from poster judges, session chairs and many senior colleagues about how well prepared our students were. The icing on the cake was that Maggie Hess received the Second Place Poster Award of the Cancer Imaging Network of Ontario (CINO) Consortium.

Csaba Pinter is a Finalist in the IOMP 2015 Young Investigator Competition at the UPESM World Congress on Medical Physics & Biomedical Engineering, Toronto, June 7-12, 2015.

His paper on "Performing radiation therapy research using the open-source SlicerRT toolkit" is 1 of the 7 finalists from over 1,600 submissions. We do not know what the end may still hold, but he is already in the top 0.4%  :-) Good luck, Csaba, to the presentation and come home with the grand prize! 

Please join me in congratulating Maggie Hess who received the Grand Prize in the healthcare research competiton oral presentations of the Canadian Undergraduate Conference on Healthcare, held on November 15-16, 2014.

Maggie gave a masterly presentation of her project on "Quantification of intra-ventricular blood clot in MR-guided focused ultrasound surgery". This work was previously accepted to SPIE Medical Imaging, 2015.

Great run, Maggie, on to the next one! 

Matthew Holden and Thomas Vaughan received the prestigious Alexander Graham Bell Canada Graduate Scholarship at the doctoral level from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC). The length of the grant is three years, at a total value of $105,000. Congratulations to their fantastic achievement!