Guolan Lu Received the Outstanding Translational Research Award

This Outstanding Translational Research Award honors a graduate student who has demonstrated excellence in translational research as shown by publications in translation-focused journals, patents, clinical testing, achieving FDA clearance, etc. Guolan Lu received the 2016 Wallace B Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering Annual Graduate Student Award – Outstanding Translational Research Award. Guolan is a Ph.D. candidate in the Quantitative BioImaging Laboratory and has performed her thesis research under the supervision of Prof. Baowei Fei in the Department of Radiology and Imaging at Emory University and in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Emory University and Georgia Institute of Technology. Guolan’s research work on hyperspectral imaging demonstrated highly translational potential from animals to human patients for the applications in cancer detection and image-guided surgery. One of her papers on medical hyperspectral imaging has received national and international attentions, being cited more than 200 times in only two years and being the Top Download from Journal of Biomedical Optics. This prestigious award is to honor best and brightest among more than 150 Ph.D. students in the nationally top-ranked Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Emory University and Georgia Institute of Technology. May 2, 2016

For more information about the Award, please visit:

http://www.gradadmiss.gatech.edu/hg/item/531711

Top Downloads from Journal of Biomedical Optics:

http://biomedicaloptics.spiedigitallibrary.org/journal.aspx

Lu G and Fei B, "Medical hyperspectral imaging: a review", Journal of Biomedical Optics. 19(1), 010901 (Jan 20, 2014)

http://biomedicaloptics.spiedigitallibrary.org/article.aspx?articleid=1816617