Manpreet Singh, mechanical engineering graduate from Guru Nanak Dev Engineering College, has conducted a pioneer research work on cancer research in the US by applying fundamental engineering principles of thermal sciences to facilitate oncology treatments.
He is at present pursuing his doctorate in mechanical engineering from the seventh most innovative research school, University of Maryland Baltimore County, US, under Liang Zhu’’s Bioheat Transfer Laboratory. He is also working with Dario Rodrigues, a thermal oncology physicist at Maryland Proton Treatment Center, and Zeljko Vujaskovic, a professor in the department of radiation oncology, University of Maryland School of Medicine. He is involved in a project to develop a hyperthermia treatment planning platform to assist with hyperthermia cancer treatments.
He is primarily performing computational modeling of deep, interstitial, and superficial hyperthermia applicators to perform 3-D simulations of heating patterns in anatomical patient models. This computational modeling further assists thermal therapy practitioners, including radiation oncologists, medical oncologists, dosimetrists, radiation therapists, surgical oncologists and medical physicists to optimise thermal therapy treatments. This research is important as it will provide 3-D images of temperature profiles during thermotherapy treatment, which helps to develop individualised hyperthermia treatment planning protocols and aids in the best cancer care for the patients.
This research is a pioneer in the US and it will facilitate the development of 3-D patient-specific treatment planning protocols, which is expected to be reflected in superior treatment outcomes in thermal oncology practices across the United States.
In 2017, prior joining the University of Maryland Baltimore County, he had worked with Capillary Biomedical Inc, California, on an NIH funded project in association with Rowan University, New Jersey, and Thomas Jefferson University, Pennsylvania, to design novel multi-perforated infusion catheters for type-1 diabetes patients.
Principal of Guru Nanak Dev Engineering College and head of Department of Mechancial Engineering expressed their best wishes to Manpreet and claimed that their students were excelling worldwide in diverse engineering fields.
