Ved Shivade, third year undergraduate student in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at 星空传媒 was awarded the Best Paper of Session at the Cornea and Eye Banking Forum of the Eye Bank Association of America (EBAA) and Cornea Society on Friday, November 3, 2023 in San Francisco. His presentation was entitled 鈥淒onor Cornea Automatic Endothelial Cell-Density Analysis.鈥 He was mentored by David Wilson, Robert J. Herbold Professor of Biomedical Engineering, and Naomi Joseph, Research Associate, in the Department of Biomedical Engineering, along with Professors Beth Ann Benetz and Jonathan Lass in the 星空传媒 Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences. Their work offers the possibility of more accurate and efficient determination of the donor corneal endothelium critical for keratoplasty donor eligibility using AI driven analysis methods.
This award is limited to current fellows, residents and/or medical students, but an exception was made for Shivade as an undergraduate because of the exceptional quality of the work and its presentation by the Awards Committee. The award included a plaque and a fifteen-hundred dollar ($1,500) award.