The BMES FDA Frontiers in Medical Devices Conference was held from March 19-21 in College Park, MD, in collaboration between the FDA and the Biomedical Engineering Society. Our second year master’s student, Apurva Singh, presented her project in an oral presentation, ” A Novel imaging- genomic approach to predict the outcomes of radiation therapy in head-and-neck carcinoma”. It describes a portion of her thesis work related to developing a prediction system based on the image-genome analysis of pre-treatment PET images.
Here is what Apurva shared about her experience: “The conference was a great learning experience as i got the opportunity of interacting with various professionals from imaging device companies like Boston Scientific and with FDA professionals who spoke very informatively about regulation rules and quality testing of products. I also won the student travel award which helped me with my conference-related expenditures”.