Nayak Wins UR CFAR World AIDS Day Scientific Symposium Poster Award

December 1, 2015

Rohit Nayak, a Ph.D. candidate supervised by Prof. Marvin Doyley, presented a poster titled “Visualizing principal strains of the carotid artery using plane wave imaging” at the University of Rochester Center for AIDS Research (CFAR) World AIDS Day Symposium on December 1st.  Rohit was awarded “Best Graduate Student Poster” in the Clinical/Translational/Public Health Category for his work!  Co-authored by Rifat Ahmed and Marvin Doyley (Electrical & Computer Engineering), Prashant Verma (Physics & Astronomy) Nancy Carson and Vikram Dogra (Imaging Sciences), Meera Singh and Sanjay Maggirwar (Microbiology & Immunology), and Giovanni Schifitto (Neurology), the poster presented the promising results from an ongoing NIH-supported HIV/vascular aging project.  Congratulations to Rohit and his co-authors on a job well done!