The MIT School of Engineering and the Center for Integration of Medicine & Innovative Technology (CIMIT) are co-sponsoring a $55,000 multi-year fellowship to support work of MIT engineering graduate students who wish to focus on innovative yet traditionally under-funded areas of healthcare research.
It is the second time the new MIT-CIMIT Medical Engineering Fellowship will be awarded. Nominations must be submitted to the Deans’ Office, MIT Room 1-206 by October 15, 2007.
Medical engineering has taken on increasing importance in today’ world, as medicine and health care become critical issues. A key goal of the MIT-CIMIT fellowship program is to enable promising graduate students to continue research in areas that are under funded. They include medical device development, new algorithms, software for use in clinical practices, and engineering of medical environments, which are all essential to accelerate the adoption of available technologies into patient care.
Olumuyiwa Ogunnika, a graduate student in MIT’s Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science department received the 2006 MIT-CIMIT Medical Engineering Fellowship award, launched at the 8th Annual CIMIT Innovation Congress in Boston last November.
With interests in the application of analog and mixed-signal circuit design techniques to solving bio-medical instrumentation and diagnostic problems, Ogunnika’s current project involves development of an integrated circuit for a handheld electrical impedance probe for the assessment of neuromuscular disease. He received a $50,000 award to support his research.
Each year, an outstanding student will be selected from a pool of talented candidates and will receive an award amount of $55,000 for stipend and tuition, plus $500 for travel to present at a national society meeting.
Over two days this November, leaders from industry, academia, and government will explore ways in which technology innovations are driving change in healthcare at the 9th Annual CIMIT Innovation Congress.
Participants from academic medical centers, business, industry, government, and the U.S. military will hear about devices and procedures being developed by clinicians in research laboratories of Boston’s teaching hospitals in collaboration with engineers and scientists from area universities and laboratories.
CMIT is a non-profit consortium of Boston, MA-area teaching hospitals and engineering schools fosters and nurtures interdisciplinary collaboration among world-class experts in medicine, science and engineering, in concert with industry and government, to rapidly improve patient care.
See: Instructions for 2nd and 3rd year School of Engineering graduate students Interested in applying. http://web.mit.edu/engineering/medeng-fellowship.html
