Dr. Evren Azeloglu Wins Yuen-huo Hung & Chao-chin Huang Award in Biomedical Engineering
06/02/2009
The 2009 Yuen-huo Hung & Chao-chin Huang Award in Biomedical Engineering was presented to Dr. Evren Azeloglu at the commencement reception in the Department of Biomedical Engineering by Prof. Van C. Mow, chair of the department.
This award has been endowed to honor the grandfathers of Professor Clark T. Hung in the Department of Biomedical Engineering. His paternal grandfather Yuen-huo Hung was a surgeon in Taipei who was renowned for his practice of medicine and for his compassion toward patients. Professor Hung's maternal grandfather Chao-chin Huang was a famous politician in Taiwan who dedicated his life to the citizens of his country, serving as mayor of Taipei, Speaker of the Taiwan Provincial Assembly and Consul General to the United States.
This award is given to a graduating doctoral student in the Department of Biomedical Engineering who embodies the collective attributes of these distinguished individuals. This student will have demonstrated great potential for making significant contributions to the fields of biomedical engineering and public health, and for serving as an ambassador of biomedical engineering.
Dr. Azeloglu completed his doctoral studies in cardiac mechanics under the tutelage of Prof. Kevin Costa. His work focused on mechanical heterogeneity of cells and tissues, and its role in cardiovascular physiology. During his tenure at Columbia University he published over a dozen peer-reviewed articles, invited papers and book chapters, and won a number of fellowships and awards. Currently, Dr. Azeloglu is a postdoctoral fellow at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York. He is working on cardiac mechanotransduction and tissue engineering, and is planning to pursue an academic career in biomedical engineering.