Many thanks to Greg and Harvest for letting use their backyard for our lab BBQ. It was a beautiful day and the food was good. It’s always fun spending time with the friends and family of lab members. Thank you Kiffer, as always, for taking some great photos to commemorate the event....
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Following a seminar titled Pediatric Ocular Mechanics: The Elephant in the Room, the Utah Commandery of Knights Templar presented a check to the Pediatric Injury Biomechanics Lab on behalf of the Knights Templar Eye Foundation. The check will support research characterizing the material properties of pediatric ocular tissues. It’s our hope that these data...
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Patrick Moran successfully defended his Master’s thesis today. His thesis, Characterization of the vitreoretinal interface and vitreous in the porcine eye as it changes with age, set the foundation for identifying age related changes in structure and mechanical properties of the eye. Patrick has accepted a position in the professional development program at T.D. Williamson...
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The Society of Women Engineers has awarded Jami Saffioti the Ada I. Pressman Memorial Scholarship for the 2012-2013 Academic Year. The scholarship committee reviewed over 1,500 applications and awarded only 7 Memorial Scholarships in the United States! Awards were given to female candidates in engineering who demonstrate “outstanding academic achievement as well as strong engineering...
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Alex Williams was awarded the award for Best Speech at the 2012 Bioengineering Senior Research Symposium. The award was given for delivering the best 5 minute presentation on the Senior Design projects. Visual aid quality, speaker performance, delivery, and quality of content were all criteria to receive this award....
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Biological sample preparation for SEM imaging of porcine retina by P. Moran and B. Coats published in March issue of Microscopy Today...
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Congratulations to lab member Alex Williams and his Biodesign team for winning the High Design Award! The team designed a hand-operated mechanical nebulizer to deliver isotonic saline for use in treating vocal fold dehydration. The project followed FDA Design Control outlined in FDA 21 CFR 820.30 and was inspired by research performed by Dr. Kristine...
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We will be presenting our work at the San Diego International Conference for Children and Families. The talk is in collaboration with Safe and Healthy Families at Primary Children’s Hospital. The talk is titled Video recorded reenactment of inflicted head and other injuries to a three-week-old infant: Biomechanical, clinical and psychosocial observations and perspectives....
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Finite element model predictions of intracranial hemorrhage from non-impact, rapid head rotations in the piglet by B Coats, SA Eucker, S Sullivan S and SS Margulies published in a special pediatric issue of International Journal of Developmental Neuroscience...
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Great news this month! TWO small grants were awarded! Pediatric TBI from repetitive head rotation was funded by the generous support of the Primary Children’s Medical Center Foundation.Quantification of collagen dissolution in the immature eye from plasmin protealase was funded by the generous support of the University of Utah Research Foundation. Both grants will provide funding for preliminary data...
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