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....
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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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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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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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Congrats to Kevin for successfully defending his MS thesis entitled “Age-Related Changes in the Mechanical Properties of Arteries”!...
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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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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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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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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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Nan-Wei’s abstract has been accepted for podium presentation at the 11th Annual International Symposium for Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering here in Salt Lake City (April 3-6, 2013). Dr. Monson is a contributing author. Abstract title: Blood vessel response under various blast loadings: finite element simulation on a simplified cylinder. Link to...
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