Doctoral students win SNMMI grants
The three students are members of the lab of Abhinav Jha in biomedical engineering
Three doctoral students in the McKelvey School of Engineering were recently awarded Medical and Science Student Research grants from the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (SNMMI):
- Janice Tania, biomedical engineering
- Wenxuan Xue, biomedical engineering
- Shrikanth Yadav, imaging science
The SNMMI is among the premier organizations in the field of nuclear medicine and aims to promote the practical application of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging. Each grant provides students with $5,000 to help fund their research.
All three recipients are graduate researchers in the lab of Abhinav Jha, associate professor of biomedical engineering in the McKelvey School of Engineering and of radiology in the Mallinckrodt institute of Radiology (MIR) at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. Jha is the principal investigator in the Computational Medical Imaging and Therapy (CMIT) Lab in McKelvey Engineering and the Precision Radiotheranostics Translation Center in MIR. His research focuses on developing novel physics and artificial intelligence (AI)-based methods for image reconstruction, image enhancement, image analysis and task-based image-quality evaluation.
