The lab has received notice of new funding from the National Science Foundation. The goals of this project are to define rate-dependent, multiscale damage mechanisms in blood vessels and to link these mechanisms to changes in vessel properties through a constitutive damage model....
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A suitable recognition of Matt for his hard work!...
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Congrats to Matt for taking first place in the student paper competition at SB3C in Tucson on June 24! The title of his presentation was “Arterial damage model based on empirical stretch thresholds of collagen unfolding and tissue yielding.” This work utilizes data on collagen fiber unfolding in overstretched vessels to inform a theoretical...
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Congratulations to Will for being selected for participation in the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program for the Fall 2016 semester! As part of this research, he will investigate cerebral vessel wall collagen fiber damage in traumatic brain injury....
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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.”...
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Dr. Monson is a co-investigator on a DOD CDMRP grant recently awarded to Dr. KC Brennan. The project is entitled “Dissecting the Roles of Brain Injury and Combat-Related Stress in Post-Traumatic Headache” and will run from 2014-2017. Congratulations, KC!...
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Congratulations to Nan-Wei for his first place finish in the poster contest at the Utah Bioengineering Conference this last weekend (Sep 7)! His poster was entitled “Mechanics of Blast Loading on an Isolated Blood Vessel: A Finite Element Approach.”...
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Figure 3 from Stewart’s blast paper has been selected as the cover image for the October 2013 issue of Annals of Biomedical Engineering. Congratulations, Stewart!...
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Congratulations to Nan-Wei Liu who was recently honored with three years of funding through the Government Scholarships to Study Abroad (GSSA) program directed by the Ministry of Education in Taiwan!...
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