Lab BBQ to kick off the Fall 2013 Semester! The Pediatric Injury Biomechanics Lab kicked off the Fall 2013 semester with a BBQ at Dr. Brittany Coat’s House! Undergraduate lab members John Muhs, Sam Feinman, Justin Jones and Kiffer Creveling joined the group this year. Alex Williams was given a farewell card by lab...
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Congratulations to Jami Saffioti, Greg Scott, and Dan Shedd who were accepted to present their work at the 9th Annual Utah Biomedical Engineering Conference held in Salt Lake City, UT on Saturday, September 7th, 2013. Three students from the Pediatric Injury Biomechanics lab attended and presented research posters at the 9th Annual Utah...
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The Department of Defense Vision Research Program has awarded the lab a $1 million dollar grant to investigate long term ocular injury from blast exposure! The interdisciplinary 4-year project will investigate ocular trauma using clinical evaluations and experimental animal models. The project will support 2 graduate students for 4 years. We are very excited to...
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Pediatric Ophthalmologist and collaborator Gil Binenbaum, MD at the University of Pennsylvania was recently awarded a seed grant from the UPENN Vision Research Center to investigate changes in pediatric intraocular pressure with scleral depression. The University of Utah Pediatric Injury Biomechanics lab will design and manufacture the computer controlled depressor in order to assist...
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The Knights Templar Eye Foundation has generously awarded Dr. Coats with an Early Career Grant for Pediatric Ophthalmology Research. The funds will be used to set the foundations for characterizing pediatric ocular material properties. A presentation of the check will occur sometime in June for a grant start date of July 1. The award...
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