Awards
Excellence in Innovation and Research
Selected Awards
2025 MITdesignX Le Rosey – Demo day winner
2024 Society for Interventional Oncology Medical Student Scholar
2023 Election to Alpha Omega Alpha Honors Society
2023 Boston University New Venture Competition – 3rd place
2023 TiE Boston winner – for best student-founded startup pitch
2023 ASU Innovation Open 1st place – to continue working on therapeutic ultrasound device (INIA)
2023 Society for Interventional Radiology 2023 Medical Student Scholar – to attend SIR conference
2022 MassMEDIC cohort – top 4 medtech companies selected for 2022 cohort
2022 Oxford Creative Destruction Lab Innovator
2022 Boston University Graduate Student Innovator of the Year – Top innovator award for BU PhD student
2022 Boston University Russek Day Student Achievement Award – 2nd prize
2022 Boston University innovation lab Innovation pathway award
2022 Rice Business Plan Competition – 5th place (top 1% of startups)
2022 Nucleate Boston – finalist
2021 MIT IDEA2 Program – finalist cohort
2021 ImagineIF! Oxford Accelerator – winner
2020 Merck Innovation Cup 2nd place – winning pitch for electroceutical device
2019 MIT IMPACT Fellow (NIH Funded) – Professional development program for pre- and postdoctoral trainees
2018 Neurophotonics Conference Travel Award – for 2018 Society for Neuroscience meeting
2017 Boston Medical Center Anesthesiology Department Travel Award
2017 Boston University School of Medicine Conference Travel Award
2015 Dean’s Scholarship – Boston University School of Medicine scholarship for MD-PhD candidates
2014 Experimental Psychology Society Summer Research Scholarship – summer research stipend at Oxford University
Grants
Innovative projects
Selected Grants
2024 NSF SBIR phase I – funding for INIA Biosciences
2023 Boston Medical Center Radiology Research Fellowship
2023 Society for Interventional Radiology Foundation Dr. and Mrs. W.C. Culp Student Research Grant
2021 Fulbright Research Award, Switzerland – Limited to 10 spots
2021 NIH Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (F30) – competitive NIH fellowship for MD/PhD training
2019 Boston University Interdisciplinary Arts Grant – in support of the proposed NeuroArts Forum project
2019 BUnano Cross-Disciplinary Fellowship
2019 Boston University Graduate Women in Science and Engineering Professional Development Grant
2018 Boston University Neurophotonics NRT Training Program (NSF funded)
Selected Publications
Selected Publications
Ning S, Agarwal D. Invited commentary on "Validation of a computed tomography-based model for early prediction of post pancreatectomy hemorrhage risk". J Gastrointest Surg. 2025 Aug;29(8):102106.
Ning S, Ghandour S, Thabet A, Iqbal S. Visceral nerve interventions in interventional radiology. Tech Vasc Interv Radiol. 2024 Sep;27(3):100983.
Abdalkader M, Ning S, Qureshi M, Haussen D, Strbian D, Nagel S, Demeestere J, Puetz V, Mohammaden M, Gadea MO, Winzer S, Yamagami H, Tanaka K,, Marto JP, Tomppo L, Henon H, Sheth SA, Ortega-Gutierrez S, Martinez-Majander N, Caparros F, Lemmens R, Dusart A, Bellante A, Zaidi S, Siegler J, Nannoni S, Kaesmacher J, Dobrocky T, Farooqui M, Salazar-Marioni S, Virtanen P, Vandewalle L, Wouters A, Jesser J, Ventura R, Castonguay AC, Uchida K, Puri AS, Masoud HE, Klein P, Mansoor Z, Bui J, Kang M, Mujanovic A, Rizzo F, Kokkonen T, Ramos JN, Strambo D, Michel P, Möhlenbruch MA, Lin E, Kaiser DPO, Yoshimura S, Sakai N, Cordonnier C, Ringleb PA, Roy D, Zaidat OO, Fischer U, Ribo M, Raymond J, Nogueira RG, Nguyen TN. Sex differences in late-window endovascular stroke thrombectomy. Stroke. 2024 Feb;55(2):278-287.
Ning S, Sanchis-Gual R, Franco C, Wendel-Garcia PD, Ye H, Veciana A, Tang Q, Sevim S, Hertle L, Llacer-Wintle J, Qin XH, Zhu C, Cai J, Chen X, Nelson BJ, Puigmartí-Luis J, Pané S. Magnetic PiezoBOTs: a microrobotic approach for targeted amyloid protein dissociation. Nanoscale. 2023 Sep 21;15(36):14800-14808.
Ning S, Chautems C, Kim Y, Rice H, Hanning U, Al Kasab S, Meyer L, Psychogios M, Zaidat OO, Hassan AE, Masoud HE, Mujanovic A, Kaesmacher J, Dhillon PS, Ma A, Kaliaev A, Nguyen TN, Abdalkader M. Robotic Interventional Neuroradiology: Progress, Challenges, and Future Prospects. Semin Neurol. 2023 Jun;43(3):432-438.
de la Asunción-Nadal V, Franco C, Veciana A, Ning S, Terzopoulou A, Sevim S, Chen XZ, Gong D, Cai J, Wendel-Garcia PD, Jurado-Sánchez B, Escarpa A, Puigmartí-Luis J, Pané S. MoSBOTs: Magnetically Driven Biotemplated MoS2 -Based Microrobots for Biomedical Applications. Small. 2022 Aug;18(33):e2203821.
Ning S, Jorfi M, Patel SR, Kim DY, Tanzi RE. Neurotechnological Approaches to the Diagnosis and Treatment of Alzheimer's Disease. Front Neurosci. 2022 Mar 24;16:854992.
Kwak SS, Washicosky KJ, Brand E, von Maydell D, Aronson J, Kim S, Capen DE, Cetinbas M, Sadreyev R, Ning S, Bylykbashi E, Xia W, Wagner SL, Choi SH, Tanzi RE, Kim DY. Amyloid-β42/40 ratio drives tau pathology in 3D human neural cell culture models of Alzheimer's disease. Nat Commun. 2020 Mar 13;11(1):1377.
Ning S, Jorfi M. Beyond the sleep-amyloid interactions in Alzheimer's disease pathogenesis. J Neurophysiol. 2019 Jul 1;122(1):1-4.
Kong YL, Zou X, McCandler CA, Kirtane AR, Ning S, Zhou J, Abid A, Jafari M, Rogner J, Minahan D, Collins JE, McDonnell S, Cleveland C, Bensel T, Tamang S, Arrick G, Gimbel A, Hua T, Ghosh U, Soares V, Wang N, Wahane A, Hayward A, Zhang S, Smith BR, Langer R, Traverso G. 3D-Printed Gastric Resident Electronics. Adv Mater Technol. 2019;4(3):1800490.
Ghosh U, Ning S, Wang Y, Kong YL. Addressing Unmet Clinical Needs with 3D Printing Technologies. Adv Healthc Mater. 2018 Sep;7(17):e1800417.
Zokaei N, Ning S, Manohar S, Feredoes E, Husain M.9/27/2024. Front Hum Neurosci. 2014 Nov 6;8:853.