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Dr. Ren received the Interstellar EARLY CAREER INVESTIGATOR AWARD given by the New York Academy of Sciences and the Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development (AMED) and attended the Interstellar workshop held at the New York Academy of Sciences conference center in New York City.

Our team’s showcasing at innovfest unbound 2018 (attended by ~14,000 key players in the technology and innovation scene, Southeast Asia’s largest innovation festival) for two technologies in flexible robotics: ONR grasper and ACTORS.

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Dr. Ren received the 2018 IAMBE EARLY CAREER AWARD from The International Academy for Medical and Biological Engineering (IAMBE) in June of 2018 at The IUPESM 2018 – World Congress on Medical Physics & Biomedical Engineering, Prague, Czech Republic. There are 3 awardees internationally and Dr. Ren is the awardee for Asia-Pacific region according to the IAMBE website. http://www.iupesm2018.org/iambe-award-2018.page. Meanwhile, Dr. Ren gave an invited talk in the EARLY CAREER AWARD session of the conference.

Our team, Yun Hol, Kirthika Senthil, Qinghui Wu (NUH advisor) and Ren, Hongliang (NUS advisor) won the Silver Award for BES Research Presentation at Biomedical Engineering Society 12th Scientific Meeting, for the project in a robotic device for medical applications.

Dr. Ren was invited to talk at The 13th Annual IEEE International Conference on Nano/Micro Engineered and Molecular Systems on magnetic medical robotics for neurosurgery (22-26, April 2018 at Singapore).

Dr. Ren was invited to talk about medical robotics and sensing at KKH’s monthly neurorehab teaching session ( KK Women’s and Children’s Hospital).

Two papers from our team were presented by Dr Ren:

• Creation of Statistical Atlas of Nasal Cavity from Computed Tomography Scans for Transnasal Surgeries.
• Modular Design and Actuation System Comparison for Underactuated Tendon-Driven Soft Anthropomorphic Robotic Finger.

The biomedical engineering design teams, under our lab won “The most innovative design award”, “The best presentation award”,  and “The most elegant instrumentation award” among 12 BN3101 teams of this year.