Weldon School senior’s extended abstract wins national award

Patrick Giolando, a senior in the Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering at Purdue University, has been awarded a 2018 Biomedical Engineering Society Undergraduate Student Design and Research Award for his extended abstract entitled, “Modeling of an implantable, bioresorbable drug delivery device.” The award is selected on the basis of originality, significance, thoroughness of design analysis, and performance evaluation.

Giolando is working on the mathematical and computational modeling of a bioresorbable drug eluting implant. The model is designed in the Python programming language to solve a system of governing partial differential equations that model polymer degradation, and polymer and drug diffusion using numerical methods.

Patrick Giolando, a senior in the Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering at Purdue University, has been awarded a 2018 Biomedical Engineering Society Undergraduate Student Design and Research Award.

Patrick Giolando, a senior in the Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering at Purdue University, has been awarded a 2018 Biomedical Engineering Society Undergraduate Student Design and Research Award.

The senior is working in the laboratories of Luis Solorio and Tamara Kinzer-Ursem, both assistant professors in biomedical engineering. The BMES Undergraduate Student Design and Research Award comes with a certificate, a $400 award and a complimentary registration to attend the 2018 BMES Annual Meeting in Atlanta, Georgia. Giolando will present his work at the meeting and be recognized at the plenary session on Friday, October 19.

A figure from senior Patrick Giolando's winning extended abstract

A figure from senior Patrick Giolando's winning extended abstract