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2019 CICS Innovation Award Winners: Samantha Atkins (1st), Takehito Okui (1st), Mark Blaser (2nd), and Julius Decano (2nd).
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CICS toasts Dr. Elena Aikawa’s promotion to full Professor at Harvard Medical School.
Drs Elena and Masanori Aikawa celebrating
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CICS family and friends support Samantha Atkins as she presents her winning abstract at the 2019 Women in Medicine and Science Symposium.
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Team CICS participating in the 2019 American Heart Association Heart Walk!
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2018 CICS Innovation Award Winners, as voted by their peers. Drs. Masanori and Elena Aikawa congratulate the innovative scientists - Maximillian Rogers (1st), Julius Decano (1st) and Hideyuki Higashi (3rd)
2017 CICS Innovation Award Winners, as voted by their peers. Drs. Masanori and Elena Aikawa congratulate the innovative scientists - Lang Ho Lee (1st), Maximillian Rogers (2nd) and Julius Decano (3rd)
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2016 CICS Innovation Award Winners as voted by their peers. Top, left to right: Keishi Nihira (3rd, tied), Noriyuki Inoue (2nd), Julius Decano (1st) and Hideyuki Higashi (3rd, tied). Below, Drs Elena and Masanori Aikawa present the winners with their awards.
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2015 CICS Innovation Award Winners, left to right: Julius Decano (3rd), Josh Hutcheson (1st), Claudia Goettsch (2nd)
Pictured with former Red Sox player, Steve Lyons, at the Boston Heart Walk
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We participated in the Boston Heart Walk in September 2015