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....
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Jay defends M.S. thesis
Congratulations to Huijae for successfully defending his M.S. thesis entitled “Characterization of Brain Surface Strains During Controlled Cortical Impact”!...
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Contract with Henry Jackson Foundation finalized
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....
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Kevin defends M.S. thesis
Congrats to Kevin for successfully defending his MS thesis entitled “Age-Related Changes in the Mechanical Properties of Arteries”!...
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Seed Grant Funded
The lab has been awarded a 1-year seed grant from the University of Utah to develop a large animal model allowing investigation of changes in cerebral blood vessels following trauma. Collaborators include the Kurt Albertine lab in the School of Medicine....
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Presenters at World Congress of Biomechanics
Congrats to Dave Bell, Nan-Wei Liu, Matt Converse, and Kevin Nye who will present at the World Congress of Biomechanics in Boston July 6-11, 2014!...
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Paper reporting cerebrovascular injury in blast accepted for publication
Congratulations to Stewart and Dave for acceptance of their paper entitled Distribution of blood-brain barrier disruption in primary blast injury for publication in the Annals of Biomedical Engineering!...
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Dave’s abstract accepted for presentation at ASME Summer Bioengineering Conference
Dave’s abstract has been accepted for podium presentation at the ASME Summer Bioengineering Conference in Sunriver, Oregon (June 26-29, 2013). Dr. Monson is a contributing author. Abstract title: Cerebrovascular dysfunction following sub-failure axial stretch. Link to the abstract here....
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Primary Children’s Foundation Award
We are honored to have received the Primary Children’s Medical Center Foundation Integrated Science Award to study the properties of pediatric cerebral blood vessels. This work will be done with Dr. Tony Donato (Internal Medicine) and Dr. Kurt Albertine (Pediatrics). The overall goal of the project is to better understand the response of the...
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2012 COE Research Report Features Our Group
Check out the nice feature on our research group in the latest College of Engineering Research Report (click image at right to view)....
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