Congratulations to Thomas BISCALDI on receiving the Nadine Barrie Smith Award 2024 from the ISTU Society!
Tuesday 8 October 2024
Mr. Thomas BISCALDI, PhD student at the Laboratory of Therapeutic Applications of Ultrasound (LabTAU, French National Institute of Health and Medical Research, University Claude Bernard of Lyon, France), recently received the International Society of Therapeutic Ultrasound's (ISTU) Nadine BARRIE SMITH Award at the 23rd International Symposium for Therapeutic Ultrasound. ISTU's most prestigious student award was established in 2011 in honor of Dr. Nadine BARRIE SMITH's dedication to students in therapeutic ultrasound and recognizes exemplary student achievements at the ISTU Annual Symposium. This fund allows continued recognition of Dr. BARRIE SMITH's legacy as a mentor, and to encourage others to do the same.
The ISTU24 event was held in Taipei (Taiwan) from Sept. 19 to 22, 2024, at the Taipei International Convention Center (TICC) located right in the heart of Taipei City in the international Xinyi business district. Following ISTU tradition, the student award winners were selected by the ISTU Student Awards Committee after pre-selection of abstracts and presentations of their works at either the "Student Award Talks" Session or the "Student Award Posters" Session. Three awards were then given for Best Poster, Best Oral Presentation, and the Nadine BARRIE SMITH Award at the final "Student Award Announcements" session. This year, Mr. Thomas BISCALDI (LabTAU, INSERM, CLB, University Claude Bernard of Lyon, France) shared this session with Ms. Mahsa MOKHLESABADI (Sunnybrook Research Institute, Toronto, Canada) and Ms. Vanessa DREVENAKOVA (Imperial College London, UK) who respectively received the awards for Best Oral and Best Poster Presentations.
Thomas BISCALDI gave a presentation entitled "Dual-Mode US Interstitial Catheter for Robotic US-Navigation-guided Conformal HIFU therapy: in-vitro experimental validation" highlighting their recent contributions to the development of 3D image-guided robot-assisted ultrasound therapy in interventional radiology, in the context of HepatoCellular Carcinoma (HCC) ablation.
