Project-Asclepios:Nominations and prizes

Section: Dissemination

Nicholas Ayache received the following distinctions and awards:
- he was elected a member of the "College of Fellows" of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE), and received this distinction during an official ceremony at the National Academy of Sciences on Feb 12, 2009, in Washington DC.
- he was elected a "Fellow of the MICCAI society" for his scientific contributions and support to this scientific organization in September 2009, London.
Grégoire Malandain has been nominated deputy scientific director of INRIA in charge of the "Computational Sciences for Biology, Medicine and the Environment domain" in november 2009.
Pierre Fillard was awarded a special mention for best PhD in Biomedical Engineering from the SFGBM-IEEE France Section, at the RITS days, March 18-20 2009 in Lille.
Jonathan Boisvert was awarded the 2009 prize for the best PhD thesis co-supervised between France and Quebec. His PhD was conducted through a collaboration between the Asclepios project-team, the University of Montreal, and the Sainte-Justine Hospital in Montreal. The topic was the construction from medical images of statistical and geometrical models of scoliosis in children. The PhD was supervised by N. Ayache and X. Pennec (Asclepios), and F. Cheriet (Univ. Montreal).