VT2010March 2010: The Department of Art as Applied to Medicine congratulates 5 of its graduate students on their Vesalian Grants and Awards. Three of it’s 5 award recipeints will be presenting their original research at the 2010 Association of Medical Illustrators Annual Conference which will be held this summer in Portland, OR. We congratulate all of this year’s applicants and wish everyone success after graduation! This year’s JHU recipients are:

INEZ DEMONET SCHOLAR:

Shizuka Aoki

ALAN COLE SCHOLAR:

Neil McMillan
Closing Gaps in Cleft Palate Reserach with 3D Visualization: Investigating Morphology to Improve Surgical Outcomes and Patient Education

VESALIAN SCHOLARS:

Shizuka Aoki
Old Gaps, New Bridges: Visualizing the Dynamics of Planar Cell Polarity and its Impact on the Co-Occurance of Incomplete Midline Closures

Elizabeth Weissbrod
Visualizing Plasmodium Interaction with the Mosquito Midgut: Development of an Interactive Educational Module

RESEARCH GRANT RECIPIENTS:

Beatriz Martin-Villalba, MD
The Role of TBGBeta Signaling Pathway in Pacreatic Cancer Progression as Discerned Through Rapid Autopsy: Creating a Bilingual Web-based Educational Program

Joseph Samson
Visualizing the Mechanisms of Tubulogenesis: Salivary Gland Morphogenesis of the Fruitfly, Drosophila malanogaster