July 15, 2024
Congratulations to Dr. Gongpu Lan, Dr. Twa, and BOL for winning the prestigious Garland W Clay Award from the American Academy of Optometry for their recent publication In Vivo Human Corneal Shear-wave Optical Coherence Elastography. Each year the Academy presents the Garland Clay Award to the authors of the manuscript published in Optometry and Vision Science (OVS) that has been among the top OVS papers cited in the world research literature in the preceding five years and has the majority vote of the OVS editorial board.
June 24, 2024
Leah was accepted into the HEALTH-FAST training program. Congratulations!
The HEALTH-FAST Program is an NIH/NIDA-funded Future Addiction Scientist Training with a targeted initiative to train talented Postdoctoral Fellows, Early-Stage Investigators, and Doctoral Scholars with the ultimate goal of recruiting and retaining a strong ATOD research workforce that can mitigate ATOD use and the chronic health conditions that result. The program is particularly focused on training scholars who are from low-income households, low-resourced communities, or are first-generation college graduates, as having a diverse workforce in scientific research widens perspectives to promote scientific creativity and innovation, increases the likelihood of underserved populations participating in and benefiting from health-focused research, and enhances public trust. Doctoral Scholars will receive education and experiences that are designed to facilitate their graduation and strengthen their national competitiveness to secure a postdoctoral fellowship in addiction sciences and/or faculty research position in an academic or medical setting. The HEALTH–FAST Program offers outstanding training opportunities, including HEALTH–FAST seminars on alcohol, tobacco, and other drug use designed to develop in-depth and cutting-edge knowledge in substance abuse and its associations with chronic diseases. As part of this program, students are awarded a stipend/scholarship for participation at 20 hrs./week which will include professional development seminars to enhance resiliency and retention in a research career, Responsible Conduct of Research (RCR) training, mentored substance-abuse research projects, and other activities to promote and build a community among the scholars.
May 14, 2024
Congratulations to the lab for the recent work in Optica utilizing reverberant OCE to map the mechanical properties of whole murine embryos noninvasively.
May 11, 2024
Congratulations to Andres Bryan for completing his Masters of Science in Biomedical Engineering degree!
May 3, 2024
Congratulations to Dr. Adam Farsheed on his recent work creating self aligning peptides with varying mechanical properties, which was recently published in ACS Nano, and utilized the lab’s multiple optical elastography methods to characterize the various peptides’ stiffnesses.
March 25, 2024
Congratulations to Dr. Maryam Hatami and all co-authors for their recent work on optoacoustic imaging of embryo cardiodynamics, which is featured in Advanced Science.
April 29, 2024
Congratulations to all the authors of the recent manuscript featured in Development on multimodal imaging using OCT and Brillouin for structural and mechanical phenotyping of murine embryos in a folate enzyme knockout model
March 5, 2024
At the 50 in 5 faculty celebration, Drs. Larin, Aglyamov, and Singh were honored for their achievements, including a pair of patents and a grant.
September 12, 2023
Dr. Taye Mekonn’s recent research utilizing noncontact reverberant OCE to characterize the biomechanical properties of the whole eye was recently highlighted in an SPIE press article. Congrats Taye!
Update: NEI Director Dr. Michael Chiang tweeted about this work too!
Update: Physics World highlighted this work as well!
July 27, 2023
Our faculty have been hard at work, conducting impactful research and bringing more ideas than ever from the lab to the market. Please join me in congratulating BME professor Dr. Kirill Larin on being the College’s top producing research faculty member in 2022! Dr. Larin’s research interests include optics, diagnostic imaging, biosensing, microscopy, and classification of tissues. He is best known for his contributions in biomedical optics, biophotonics, the application of various optical methods for noninvasive and nondestructive imaging and diagnostics of tissues and cells.
