David Hoey, Trinity College Dublin, has won the Biomedical Research Medal 2008 for his research paper, The role of stress concentrations in the fatigue strength of a porous bone cement mantle. The prestigious award, sponsored by Georgia Tech Ireland, is made annually by Engineers Ireland to a final year PhD student, judged by a select committee, to have made a significant contribution to the field of biomedical engineering research in Ireland. There were four finalists selected on the basis of research papers submitted in March to the Biomedical Engineering Division of Engineers Ireland. The papers were assessed on five criteria: the importance of the topic, the technical depth of the papers, their technical novelty, overall presentation of the papers and appropriateness of the papers for the competition.
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