Congratulations to Kristian Valen-Sendstad

Congratulations to BSL postdoc Kristian Valen-Sendstad, who has been awarded a Government of Canada Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship for his studies of "turbulence" in cerebral aneurysm hemodynamics.

Kristian is also just back from an international vascular biomechanics conference in Atlanta, where his talk, "Is CFD Misleading Us About the Nature of Wall Shear Stresses in Cerebral Aneurysms?" generated a lot of interest and discussion, as well as lots of ideas for us to pursue here at the BSL.

Yiemeng Hoi awarded postdoctoral fellowship

Congratulations to BSL postdoc Yiemeng Hoi, who has been awarded a two-year Research Fellowship from the Heart & Stroke Foundation of Canada.

Amir Manbachi wins Lorne Phenix Award

Congratulations to BSL Master's student Amir Manbachi, for receiving this year's Lorne Phenix Award from UofT's Cardiovascular Sciences Collaborative Program (CSCP). Most of the students participating in the CSCP have their thesis projects on cardiovascular physiology or biology, and so it was a pleasant surprise that Amir's work on common carotid artery geometry and flow characterization stood out (in a good way).