AMI Awards 2020

Selection of award-winning 2D and 3D media from BMC students, including Emperor Penguins and Cyborg Botany

Each year the Association of Medical Illustrators (AMI) hosts an exhibition of scientific and medical visualizations created and produced by its professional, associate and student members. Members submit illustrations, animations and interactive media for judging by committees composed of subject matter experts.

Despite the cancellation of the 2020 annual conference caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, the AMI Salon went ahead as a virtual event hosted online.

BMC students, faculty and alumni won five of nine Awards of Excellence, nine of 18 Awards of Merit and two of the most prestigious–Best of Show for Interactive/Dynamic Media and Best of Show for Static Media.

Student Category

Best of Show

Alexander Young, (Interactive Media) Twin-Twin Training Simulator: an interactive 3D surgical tool for teaching fetoscopic laster ablation to treat TTTS; Supervisors Nicholas Woolridge and Michael Corrin

Hang Lin, (Still Media – Editorial) Cyborg Botany; Supervisor Marc Dryer

Awards of Excellence

Alexander Young, (Interactive Media) Twin-Twin Training Simulator: an interactive 3D surgical tool for teaching fetoscopic laster ablation to treat TTTS; Supervisors Nicholas Woolridge and Michael Corrin

Hang Lin, (Still Media – Editorial) Cyborg Botany; Supervisor Marc Dryer

Colleen Paris, (Still Media – Didactic/Instructional – Molecular/Biological/Life Sciences) A Guide to Potentially Habitable Exoplanets; Supervisor Jodie Jenkinson

Brittany Cheung, (Still Media – Didactic/Instructional – Molecular/Biological/Life Sciences) Emperor Penguins: Breeding Season and Adaptations; Supervisor Jodie Jenkinson

Hang Lin, (Still Media – Didactic/Instructional -- Anatomical/Pathological) Acquired Ocular Toxoplasmosis; Supervisors Shelley Wall and David Mazierski

Awards of Merit

Tracy Xiang, (Animated Media) Preoperative Anemia Patient Education: A Character Driven Story; Supervisors Marc Dryer and Shelley Wall

Avesta Rastan, (Animated Media) Illuminating Medulloblastoma; Supervisors Nick Woolridge and Marc Dryer

Eric Chung, (Still Media – Editorial) Pedicting Peking Man: An Anthropological Approximation; Supervisors Marc Dryer and Chi-Chun Liu

Emily Taylor, (Still Media – Editorial) Clinical Trials of Cancer Drugs Fail Due to Missed Target Protein; Supervisor Marc Dryer

Christine Shan, (Still Media – Editorial) Space Biomining; Supervisor Marc Dryer

Zhen Bai, (Still Media – Didactic/Instructional – Molecular/Biological/Life Sciences) The Perfect Match of Demise; Supervisor Derek Ng

Margot Riggi, (Still Media – Didactic/Instructional – Molecular/Biological/Life Sciences) Pyocins: Natural Bacteria Killers; Supervisor Derek Ng

Evelyn Lockhart, (Still Media – Didactic/Instructional – Molecular/Biological/Life Sciences) An Illusion of Fire and Ice; Supervisor Derek Ng

Ava Schroedl, (Still Media – Didactic/Instructional – Molecular/Biological/Life Sciences) Mapping the Binding Sites of the Opioid Antidote; Supervisor Derek Ng

Professional Category

Awards of Excellence

AXS Studio, (Still Media – Advertising and Marketing/Promotional) The Role of Contractility in Cardiac Function [link not available]

INVIVO Communications, (Animation – Didactic/Instructional – Non-Commercial) COVID-19 and the  Science of Soap

Awards of Merit

INVIVO Communications, (Animation – Didactic/Instructional -- Commercial) Pathophysiology of ATTR-CM

INVIVO Communications, (Animation – Didactic/Instructional -- Commercial) HSDD & Treatment with Bremelanotide

AXS Studio, (Animation – Didactic/Instructional – Non-Commercial) Vaccines vs Antivirals: What’s the Difference?

Artery Studios, (Still Media – Medical Legal) Concepts of twin-twin transfusion syndrome (TTTS) – Nathan and Marcus Smith

Audra Geras, (Still Media – Advertising and Marketing/Promotional) A Comparison of: Standard Mesh HVAC Filtration versus Heated Nickel Mesh HVAC Filtration

A huge congratulations goes out to all BMC students, graduands and alumni for their success in this year’s AMI Salon.