Annual BE-BMES Johnson & Johnson Excellence in Biomedical Engineering Research Prize

Five winners will receive $1000!  Don't miss this opportunity!

MIT Biological Engineering-Biomedical Engineering Society and Johnson & Johnson are recognizing students' bioengineering related research with the 8th annual Excellence in Biomedical Engineering Research Prize.  Five awards of $1000 will be granted for work done at the undergraduate or Master's (M.Eng./M.S.) level.

Applications are due Friday, *April 10th, 2009* (Extended Deadline) and include a 2-3 page research report. Appendices of figures will not count toward the page limit.  Please see the application form on the BE-BMES website for more information.

Application Form:
https://web.mit.edu/bmes/jj/app2009.pdf
https://web.mit.edu/bmes/jj/app2009.doc  

Information about past events:
 http://web.mit.edu/bmes/www/events/JJWinners.doc
 http://web.mit.edu/bmes/www/JnJ06.html

Applicants’ eligibility:
-Fall 2008 Merck winners are ineligible for Spring 2009 J&J prize
-Spring 2008 winners of J&J prize are ineligible for Spring 2009 J&J prize
-Fall 2008 Merck winners are ineligible for Fall 2009 Merck poster
* Reason for this rule: As a student group supporting the entire biological and biomedical engineering student body, we want to reward as broad a range of research projects as possible.
This is a great opportunity to show what you have been working on and get a reward for your commitment. 


This year's winners (2009):
Steven Mo
Arian Roman
Peter Fung
Swetha Kambhampati
Jacqueline Douglass

Congratulations!



List of past winners:

BE-BMES - Johnson & Johnson Excellence in Biomedical Engineering Research Prize 2008:

Awards dinner featuring J&J Company Presentation by:
Kathy Vigue, Cordis Vice President of Research and Development
Diana Sanchez (MIT ’98), Project Leader, Staff Engineer in Cordis Neurovascular Disease Group

Winning Project Presentations by:
Giovanni Franzesi
Matthew Lord
Jerzy Szablowski
Kai Yuet
Lucy (Yingxin) Zhang



BE-BMES - Johnson & Johnson Excellence in Biomedical Engineering Research Prize 2007:

J&J Company Presentation by:
Tim Kiorpes, PhD MIT '72, VP World Wide Franchise R&D and Diana Sanchez, MIT '98

Winning Project Presentations by:
Gilad Evrony
Kathleen Xie
Jennifer Yeh
Huanan Zhang
Yingxin Zhang



BE-BMES - Johnson & Johnson Excellence in Biomedical Engineering Research Prize 2006:

Samir Awasthi
Jennifer Fang
Anna Labno
Joshua Lake
Melvin Makhni