The following awards have been given to students or researchers of our laboratory.
Farid Mitri (Researcher)
12 March 2007
Laureate of the Mayo Clinic Alumni Association's 2007 Edward C. Kendall Award for meritious research.
Dominique Cathignol (Researcher)
10 January 2007
Laureate of the "Médaille française de l'acoustique" of the Société Française d'Acoustique (SFA).
Hubert Parmentier (Physician) and David Melo de Lima (Researcher)
20 November 2006
Laureates of the prize Antonin Poncet (5000 euros) for their work performed on HIFU treatments in pig liver during laparotomy for the treatment of liver metastasis. Vascular and biliary tolerance.
Adriana Murillo and Guillaume Bouchoux (PhD students)
2 September 2006
Laureates of the student poster prize for their poster entitled "Enhanced thermal ablation by combining ultrasound contrast agents with miniature flat transducer" and "Two treatment strategies using a therapy / imaging rotating transducer" at the 6th International Symposium on Therapeutic Ultrasound (ISTU6), Oxford, U.K.
R. Milleret, S. Pichardo, J.Y. Chapelon, O. Pichot, L. Curiel & F. Lacoste
26 June 2005
2nd prize for their communication paper on "External ultrasonic valvuloplasty" at the 6th Annual Meeting of the European Venous Forum, Crete, Greece.
Albert Gelet (Surgeon)
19 March 2005
Laureate of the best poster prize for his poster entitled "Local recurrence of prostate cancer after external beam radiation: early experience of salvage therapy using high intensity focused ultrasound" at the XXth European Association of Urology congress, Istanbul, Turkey.
Farid Mitri (PhD student)
1st June 2005
City of Lyon's Young Investigator Award (5400 euros).
Samuel Pichardo (PhD student)
20 January 2005
Laureate of the 1st prize "Bio-Industrie" (5000 euros) given by Biomérieux at the 12ème Carrefours de la Fondation Rhône-Alpes Futur, Lyon, France, for his poster entitled "External Ultrasonic Valvuloplasty for the treatment of the superficial venous insufficiency and varicose veins using high intensity focused ultrasound (Valvuloplastie ultrasonore externe pour le traitement de l'insuffisance veineuse superficielle et des varices par l'utilisation des ultrasons focalisés de haute intensité)".
Rémi Souchon (Engineer) and Yves Theillère (Assistant Engineer)
6 December 2004
Laureates of the INSERM Innovation 2004 Award for their contribution in the development of the lithotripsy and high intensity focused ultrasound at INSERM Unit 281 and then INSERM Unit 556, Paris, France.
Jean-Yves Chapelon (Researcher) and Albert Gelet (Surgeon)
16 November 2004
Laureates of Gefluc 2004 Award (20000 euros) of the association "Groupement des entreprises françaises dans la lutte contre le cancer" for their research on the destruction of tumors by high intensity focused ultrasound (Ablatherm), Lyon, France.
David Melo de Lima (PhD student)
7 April 2004
Laureate of the 1st prize of the "Ecole Doctorale Interdisciplinaire Sciences-Santé" for his PhD work "Intraluminal ultrasound applicator, MRI compatible, for the treatment of oesophageal tumours.", Lyon, France.
Zine El Abiddine Fellah (Researcher)
17 December 2003
Laureate of the Yves Rocard 2003 Award (760 euros) of the "Société Française d'Acoustique" (SFA), Paris, France, for his research in acoustics.
Albert Gelet and Jean-Yves Chapelon (Researcher)
27 November 2003
Nominated for the 2003 "Victoires de la Médecine" award, France.
Samuel Pichardo (PhD student)
26 June 2003
Laureate of the student poster prize for his poster entitled "Quasi-linear bubble response in biological conditions for predicting HIFU lesions" at the 3rd International Symposium on Therapeutic Ultrasound (ISTU3), Lyon, France.
David Melo de Lima (PhD student)
16 June 2003
Laureate of the 1st prize (6000 euros) of the Pôle des Technologies Médicales of Saint-Etienne, France (Center of Medical Technology) for his PhD work on the development and experimentation of an ultrasonic endo-luminal applicator with electronic beam steering and MRI compatible.
Amalric Montalibet (PhD student)
8 December 2002
Laureate of the best poster presentation for his poster entitled "Electrical conductivity interface scanning by ultrasonically-induced Lorentz force" at the EMBEC'02 congress, Vienna, Austria.
Belhassen Seket (PhD student)
26 March 2002
Laureate of the 3rd Prize (7600 euros) of the Aventis Grant "Hepatic surgery in relation to colorectal cancer" at the Symposium of the French Federation of Digestive Surgery (FFCD), Nantes, France for his PhD work on the development of an ultrasound applicator for liver tumour ablation.
Cyril Lafon (PhD student)
2000
City of Lyon's Young Investigator Award.
Laura Curiel Ramirez del Prado (DEA student)
26 May 1999
Laureate of the "Prix des Amis de l'Université de Lyon", France, (5000 FF) for her DEA work on the study and development of a 1.5D phased-array for high intensity focused ultrasound.
Cyril Lafon (PhD student)
1997
Laureate of the "Prix des Amis de l'Université de Lyon", France, for his PhD work.
Jean-Yves Chapelon (Researcher) and Albert Gelet (Surgeon)
27 November 1992
Laureates of one of the four prizes (20000 FF) given by the "Rhône-Alpes Futur" Foundation at the 1st "Carrefours de la Fondation", Lyon, France, for their research on the destruction of tumors by high intensity focused ultrasound (Ablatherm).
Awards