2023 MPBE Student Awards

On Wednesday 13th December, we were delighted to hold our annual Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering Student Award Celebration which provided a fantastic opportunity to come together as a department before the winter break and celebrate the achievements of our student community!

Our 2023 prize winners:

Sidney Russ Prize for Best Finalist Undergraduate Student

Talha Atcha

Andrea Ripa

John Clifton Prize for Best Non-Finalist Undergraduate Student

Ksenia Odintsova

Instron Prize for Best Group Research Project

Aidan Tang

Charlotte Wei

Kevin Wei

Joseph Rotblat Prize for Best Masters Student

Robert Slack

IPEM Prize for Best Research Project

Louisa Brown

i4Health CDT Best MRes Prize

Seunghoi Kim

Runners up: Marta Masramon Munoz and Xin Zhao

Robert Speller Prize for Best Paper by a PhD Student

Yukun Zhou
A foundation model for generalizable disease detection from retinal images

Honorary mentions  

Carlos Navarrete-Leon: X-Ray phase-contrast microtomography of soft tissues using a compact laboratory system with two-directional sensitivity

Ashkan Ajeer: Hybrid energy and angle dispersive x-ray diffraction computed tomography 

Oliver Kiersnowski: Quantitative susceptibility mapping identifies hippocampal and other subcortical grey matter tissue composition changes in temporal lobe epilepsy

David Hawkes Prize for Best Paper in Imaging, Sensing or Interventional Sciences

Laura Privitera
Shortwave Infrared Imaging Enables High-Contrast Fluorescence-Guided Surgery in Neuroblastoma

Honorary mentions  

Yukun Zhou: A foundation model for generalizable disease detection from retinal images

Carlos Navarrete-Leon: X-ray phase-contrast microtomography of soft tissues using a compact laboratory system with two-directional sensitivity

Zach Baum: Meta-Learning Initializations for Interactive Medical Image Registration

Gowerlabs Prize for Student Extracurricular Contribution

Carlos Navarrete-Leon

IET Prize for Outstanding Performance in their Engineering Degree

Andrea Ripa

IET Future Talent Award

Valeria Dosso

Faculty of Engineering Sciences Medal and Prize

Andrea Ripa

Professor H.A.B. Simons Prize

Olivia McKnight

Dean’s List

Undergraduate: Talha Atcha, Andrea Ripa, Nazir Sirajudeen, Pratham Upadhyay

Postgraduate: Louisa Brown, Fuyi Huang, Marta Masramon Muñoz, Adam Phipps, Robert Slack, Weixi Yi

Many congratulations from all of us at MPBE to our students on this tremendous achievement!

Many thanks to Instron, the Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine (IPEM) and Gowerlabs for their sponsorship of these awards. A special thank you to UCL Emeritus Professors Robert Speller and David Hawkes and in memory of Professor John Clifton who sadly passed away in January of this year. Read Prof Clifton’s tribute here.

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