Abstracts & Award Winners

Scoville Resident Clinical Paper Award:

Sahin Hanalioglu, MD, PhD – Fellow at Brigham & Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA
“Augmented Reality-Assisted Multimodal Image Fusion and Navigation-Guided Arterial Feeder Dissection for Brain AVM Resection”

Matson Resident Basic Science Paper Award:

Joshua Chalif, MD – Resident at Brigham & Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA
“Harvesting the Potential of Pro-Myelination Treatment on Functional Recovery after Spinal Cord Injury”
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Shucart Medical Student Paper Award:

Andrew D’Amico, BS – Medical Student at Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, MA
“Rediscovering the Origins of Kocher’s Point”

Scott Pediatric Paper Award:

Evan Dennis – Medical Student at Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
“Integrated Multiomic Analysis Characterizes the Role of Novel Risk Genes in Congenital Ventriculomegaly Pathogenesis”

Corporate Award Winner: Anuncia Medical Award for Innovative Solutions:

Vishva Natarajan, MS – Medical Student at Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Hanover, NH
“VirtualPNN: A Generative AI Tool for Rapid Detection of Perineuronal Nets in Brain Tumors”

Corporate Award Winner: 2025 Larry Foley Sr. Life Instruments’ Award for Excellence:

Owen Leary, BS – Medical Student at the Warren Alpert Medical School at Brown University, Providence, RI
“Identification of Circulating miRNAs on Liquid Biopsy for Diagnosis of Brain Tumors: Clinical Data from a Single Center and Exploration of Potential Effects on Glioblastoma Stem Cell Behavior in vitro”