u0629950 – Page 4 – Laboratory of Head Injury and Vessel Biomechanics

Talk at Summer Bioengineering Meeting

July 1, 2016July 1, 2016

Congratulations to Matt, Justin, and Ray for presentation of their work at the SB3C Conference in National Harbor, MD, on 6/30/2016. The talk reporting their work was entitled “Direction-Dependent Collagen Disruption in Overstretched Cerebral Arteries” and reports further quantification of collagen damage resulting from circumferential overstretch. Findings were based on the use of collagen...

Officially Dr. Bell

May 6, 2016May 6, 2016

Congratulations, Dave!...

Dave successfully defends his PhD!

December 18, 2015December 18, 2015

Congrats, Dr. Bell! The title of his dissertation is “Thresholds of Stretch-Induced Injury in Cerebral Arteries.”...

Matt defends his PhD proposal!

September 30, 2015September 30, 2015

Congrats to Matt for successfully defending his PhD proposal!...

Stewart gives podium at BMES

August 1, 2015August 1, 2015

Congrats to Stewart on being elected to give a podium presentation the at BMES Annual Meeting in Tampa, FL, on Oct 7-10. The title of his talk is “Behavioral and Inflammatory Consequences of Cerebrovascular Dysfunction in Primary Blast Injury.”...

Stewart, Matt, and Ray present at SB3C

July 1, 2015July 1, 2015

Congrats to Stewart, Matt, and Ray for nice presentations at the 2015 Summer Biomechanics, Bioengineering and Biotransport Conference at Snowbird, UT, June 17-20, 2015. Stewart and Matt presented posters titled “Behavioral And Inflammatory Consequences Of Cerebrovascual Dysfunction In Primary Blast Injury” and “Alteration And Failure Of Cerebral Artery Internal Elastic Lamina Following Axial Overstretch,” respectively....

Matt wins 2nd place speaker award at UBEC

January 31, 2015January 31, 2015

Congratulations to Matt for his nice talk (2nd place award) at the Utah Bioengineering Conference on Jan 31. The title of his talk was “Cerebrovascular damage in TBI: a focus on passive constituents.”...

Vessel damage paper published

January 28, 2015January 28, 2015

Congrats to Dave and Jake for their nice paper “Subfailure overstretch induces persistent changes in the passive mechanical response of cerebral arteries,” published in Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology....

Jay defends M.S. thesis

October 16, 2014October 16, 2014

Congratulations to Huijae for successfully defending his M.S. thesis entitled “Characterization of Brain Surface Strains During Controlled Cortical Impact”!...

Contract with Henry Jackson Foundation finalized

October 15, 2014October 15, 2014

The lab has finalized a contract with the Henry Jackson Foundation, through collaboration with the Biotechnology HPC Software Applications Institute, to investigate the high-rate properties of rat cerebral arteries. Findings will be used to develop of a model of blast brain injury....