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Congratulations to Jourdan Colter for getting her manuscript “Finite element design optimization of a hyaluronic acid-based hydrogel drug delivery device for improved retention” published in the Annals of Biomedical Engineering! Her figures were extremely high-quality and selected for the cover of the March 2018 issue. Dr. Barbara Wirostko from EyeGate Pharmaceuticals collaborated on the...
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Congratulations to Dan Shedd for his publication “Long term temporal changes in structure and function of rat visual system after blast exposure” being accepted and published in IOVS. This long (13 typeset pages!) multifaceted manuscript is a culmination of his thesis and includes detailed imaging, protein analysis, behavior analysis, and histology of eyes after...
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Congratulations Dan on your new research position at Center for Applied Biomechanics at University of Virginia. Best of luck in your future endeavors as a research associate!...
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Congratulations to Dan Shedd who passed his PhD dissertation defense on July 27, 2017. His dissertation, Ocular Injury Following Primary Blast Exposure, had the goal to understand long-term closed globe ocular injury progression from primary blast exposure, and to identify potential physical injury mechanisms. Best of luck in your future endeavors Dan!...
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Hi-GEAR: The lab was very excited to host a workshop for the high school women involved in the Hi-GEAR (Girls Engineering Abilities Realized) Camp run by the College of Engineering for the second time. The camp introduces students to engineering and computer science through hands-on learning projects. We had the women...
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Julia Morelli, an upcoming Sophomore at The University of Southern California, is spending her summer in the pediatric injury biomechanics lab to get insight and experience in ocular research at the University of Utah. Julia will be characterizing and evaluating changes in epithelial cell density by examining retinas that have been exposed to a pressure blast....
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Join us at the 6th annual Military Vision Symposium on Ocular and Vision Injury hosted by Harvard Medical Center. Dr. Coats will be presenting an overview of the temporal progression of eye injury following blast exposure. Full itinerary for the symposium can be found here....
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Jourdan Colter’s abstract titled, Coefficient of friction between carboxymethylated hyaluronic acid (CMHA-S) films and the ocular surface, was selected for a podium presentation at the ARVO national meeting to be held in Baltimore Maryland May 7-11. The Annual Meeting of the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) is the largest gathering of eye and vision...
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The Department of Justice recently awarded the lab funding to characterize the fracture mechanics of infant cranial bone. Dr. Coats (PI), in collaboration with Dr. Ashley Spear (mmm.mech.utah.edu) and Dr. Susan Margulies (UPENN), will develop a computational framework to predict skull fracture patterns following head impact in infants. The work will involve microscale characterization of the fracture...
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The David Mahoney Neuroimaging Award is a grant program led by The Dana Foundation aimed to support research to determine how the human brain functions normally and/or with disease using novel imaging techniques. Dr. Coats’ application, Subarachnoid Microstructural Damage as a Biomarker for Mild TBI, was selected to represent the University of Utah in...
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