Biomedical engineering professor Guoqiang Yu and his research group recently published the results of their studies about contact and non-contact optical blood flow and oxygenation measurements in the Scientific Reports journal hosted at nature.com. The article, titled “Simultaneous measurement of deep tissue blood flow and oxygenation using noncontact diffuse correlation spectroscopy flow-oximeter,” (Nature: Scientific Reports, [...]

Ph.D. candidates Amanda Clark and Bryan Orellana recently received awards from the Society for Biomaterials for their poster entries. Clark’s poster was titled “The Effect of Adding a Hydrogel Porogen into a Poly(lactic-co-glycolic acid) Scaffold” and received a $250 award of merit from the Society for Biomaterials—Orthopaedic Biomaterials Special Interest Group. Orellana’s poster was titled [...]

Doctoral candidate Amanda Clark participates in the 2012 NSF IGERT video and poster competition View Presentation

Spotlight summary: Functional imaging for cancer therapy monitoring is a dream for oncologists, theoretically enabling additional treatment decisions to be made prior to any tumor size change that may follow. Functional imaging requires monitoring of a biomarker linked to the outcome of the therapeutic intervention. One such example is the effect of tissue oxygenation on [...]

LEXINGTON, Ky. (Dec. 5, 2011)—UK spinoff company Equinext is taking the first step to test its device to treat equine tendon and ligament injuries using funds raised entirely from local Kentucky investors. Equinext recently closed an $850,000 Series A investment round and started the initial work on their clinical trial with strategic partner Hagyard Equine [...]

Dr. Tom Hedman joined the Center as an Associate Research Professor. Dr. Hedman received his doctorate from the University of Strathclyde (Scotland) and has held faculty appointments at the University of Southern California and Texas A&M University. His research involves chemical modification of the extracellular matrix of collagenous connective tissues to achieve improvements in mechanical [...]

Dr. Babak Bazrgari joined the Center as an Assistant Professor. Dr. Bazrgari received his doctorate from the Department of Mechanical Engineering at École Polytechnique de Montréal and was a Postdoctoral Associate in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Virginia Tech. His research interests focus on biomechanics of the human musculoskeletal system, with overall [...]

Dr. Yu Shang, postdoctoral scholar in the Bio-photonics Lab (PI: Dr. Guoqiang Yu) at the Center for Biomedical Engineering, was recently awarded a two-year postdoctoral fellowship from the American Heart Association (AHA) for a project entitled, “Development of Diffuse Optical Spectroscopies for Monitoring Cerebral Blood Flow and Oxygenation in Mouse Stroke Model”. The goal of [...]

Dr. David Puleo, Professor and Director of the Center for Biomedical Engineering, has been elected a Fellow of the Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES).  Puleo was recognized for national and international contributions to Biomedical Engineering and for inspired leadership in BMES.  He is one of 15 biomedical engineers who were inducted in a formal ceremony at [...]

Dr. Hainsworth Shin (PhD), Assistant Professor in the Center for Biomedical Engineering, was recently awarded a two year grant from the American Heart Association (AHA) for a project entitled, “Modulation of Leukocyte Mechanotransduction of Fluid Shear Stress by the Cell Membrane”. The project’s abstract follows. Fluid shear stresses due to blood flow controls leukocyte activity [...]