Undergrad recipient of Medical Student Award at Annual AUR Conference

Nikita Lakomkin, an undergraduate student at Vanderbilt, has won the 2015 Henry Goldberg Medical Student Award from the Association of University Radiologists (AUR) for his work on CT biomarkers of cancer treatment response. The award will be presented during the AUR 63rd Annual Meeting in New Orleans, Louisiana, April 14-17, 2015.

The AMSER Henry Goldberg Medical Student Award may be presented annually to any medical student who submits an outstanding abstract for a paper, poster, or electronic exhibit for presentation at the AUR Annual Meeting. The candidate must be the first author or the presenter of the project.

The Association of University Radiologists consists of over 3,000 academic radiologists, residents, and fellows. The purpose of the Association of University Radiologists is to encourage excellence in radiological laboratory and clinical investigation, teaching and clinical practice; to stimulate an interest in academic radiology as a medical career; to advance radiology as a medical science; and to represent academic radiology at a national level.