Zhang wins first prize in bioengineering poster contest
Yumiao Zhang won first place for his poster presentation at the 41st Northeast Bioengineering Conference (NEBEC 2015).
Published April 30, 2015 This content is archived.
Yumiao Zhang, a PhD student in the departments of Biomedical Engineering and Chemical and Biological Engineering, won the first-place prize out of a field of 150 entrants for his poster presentation at the 41st Northeast Bioengineering Conference (NEBEC 2015). The event was held in Troy, New York, on April 17-19.
Zhang’s poster, “Frozen Naphthalocyanine micelles for Intestinal Imaging,” presents a new,noninvasive method to image intestine function. By engineering nanoparticles with extremely high color content, their motion could be traced noninvasively in the intestine using an imaging technique called photoacoustic tomography.
This method eventually could lead to better diagnosis of conditions like Crohn’s disease, or be used for colonoscopy screening procedures.
Zhang led the research that involved a multidisciplinary team including Paschalis Alexandridis, UB Distinguished Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering, and groups from University of Madison-Wisconsin, POSTECH University in Korea and McMaster University in Canada.
The first-place prize comes with a $500 cash prize. Zhang is a student in the lab of Jonathan Lovell, assistant professor of biomedical engineering.
