Archive for March 2016

NIH Grant Awarded to Investigate Vitreoretinal Adhesion Changes with Age

The National Eye Institute at NIH recently awarded our group a two-year R21  grant titled Quantitative Regional Analysis of Vitreoretinal Adhesion with Age. The grant began March 1, 2016 and will be focused on elucidating mechanisms of adhesion at the vitreoretinal interface, and quantifying how those mechanisms change with age. The data will be extremely informative for understanding and developing treatments for posterior vitreous detachment, as well as developing mechanically accurate computational models of the human eye. We look forward to beginning this project and disseminating results to the vision research community.

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New publication investigates the effect of cyclic loading on pediatric TBI

Our manuscript, “Cyclic Head Rotations Produce Modest Brain Injury in Infant Piglets” was recently accepted by Journal of Neurotrauma for publication in 2016. The paper evaluates the time-dependent response of axonal injury and extra-axial hemorrhage following a continuous or episodic cyclic head rotation as compared to a single head rotation. Authors on the paper are Brittany Coats (UofU) Gil Binenbaum (CHOP), Colin Smith (Edinburgh), Robert Peiffer (Scheie Eye Institute), Cindy Christian (CHOP), Ann-Christine Duhaime (Mass General), and Susan Margulies (UPENN). The ahead of print manuscript will be available on the J. Neurotrauma website. A link will be provided here once available

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