Meet the 2026 Awardees: Sreyankar Nandy, PhD & Anne Yang, MD
Sreyankar Nandy, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School. He received his Ph.D. from Washington University in St. Louis, where his doctoral research focused on biomedical imaging technologies.
Dr. Nandy’s current research focuses on advancing novel optical imaging technologies capable of visualizing lung microstructure in vivo and integrating these approaches with AI and machine learning to enable earlier disease detection, precise phenotyping, and objective monitoring of disease progression and treatment response. A major focus of his research is the clinical translation of endobronchial optical coherence tomography (EB-OCT), a minimally invasive bronchoscopic imaging modality that can visualize in vivo lung microanatomy at near-histologic resolution across large tissue volumes.
In recognition of his innovative research, Dr. Nandy was the winner of the 2023 BEAR Cage Competition at the American Thoracic Society International Conference for his proposal on using EB-OCT for the early diagnosis of interstitial lung disease.
Anne Yang, MD is a Clinical Instructor and T32 Postdoctoral Scholar in the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh. She received her medical degree from the University of Queensland and completed her internal medicine residency and pulmonary and critical care fellowship at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. Her research interests focus on accelerated biologic aging in COPD as a framework for understanding disease heterogeneity and multimorbidity.
Description
This award recognizes Early-Stage Investigators whose abstract submission to the Assembly on Clinical Problems demonstrates outstanding scientific merit. The recipient is selected by the Program Committee Chair in acknowledgment of the abstract’s exceptional contribution to the International Conference.