Comber and Simi place 1st and 2nd at the Design of Medical Devices Conference
Eric Barth’s student David Comber (co-advised by Bob Webster) and Pietro Valdastri’s student Massimiliano Simi have won 1st and 2nd place in a competition at the Design of Medical Devices conference (http://www.dmd.umn.edu/). Theirs were 2 of 10 presentations selected among the 112 abstracts accepted. The winning papers/presentations are:
Precision Pneumatic Robot for MRI-Guided Neurosurgery
David Comber, Laboratory for the Design and Control of Energetic Systems, & Medical and Electromechanical Design (MED) Lab, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Vanderbilt University
Magnetic Mechanism for Wireless Capsule Biopsy
Massimiliano Simi, The BioRobotics Institute, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna & STORM Lab, Mechanical Engineering Department, Vanderbilt University
Here you can find more details about the competition http://www.dmd.umn.edu/Session_2012/three-in-five.html