Nathaniel Braman, advised by Anant Madabhushi at the Center for Computational Imaging and Personalized Diagnostics (CCIPD), has received the 2020 Doctoral Excellence Award for Biomedical Engineering from the School of Medicine.

Braman's work focused on the development of new measurement and analysis techniques to extract information about a tumor and tumor environment to determine the best treatment strategy for cancers of the breast and lung. 

He has recently defended his PhD dissertation entitled "Novel Radiomics and Deep Learning Approaches Targeting the Tumor Environment to Predict Response to Chemotherapy” on April 17, 2020.