June 2024: Nahom Mossazghi receives the 2024-2025 Neural Interfacing Traineeship (NIH T32)
Summer 2024: Karen Abad, Alex Kiragles, and Aditi Jain join the lab as SURA interns; Anyssa Oden joins the lab as a SURF fellow; and Rhea Soo joins the lab an undergraduate researcher
Summer 2024: Junhao Li receives the BME Summer Research Excellence Award
May 2024: Nahom Mossazghi receives the 2023-2024 BME Leadership and Service Award
April 2024: Dr. Wood gives a seminar talk at Columbia University.
March 2024: Elizabeth Meinert-Spyker abstract accepted at OHBM, "Fractional Anisotropy Varies with Age, Cognition, and Depression in Patients with Sickle Cell"; and Nahom Mossazghi abstract accepted at OHBM, "Investigating Disruptions in Information Flow due to Sickle Cell Disease using Granger Causality Analysis."
February 2024: Prof. Wood receives the 2024 Black Engineer of the Year (BEYA) Science Spectrum Trailblazer award
January 2024: Gabrielle Ibrahim joins the lab as a high school intern
Fall 2023: Joel Disu receives 2023-2024 Neil and Jo Bushnell Fellowship in Engineering
October 2023: Dr. Wood gives research talk at 2023 AfroBioTech in Atlanta, GA
October 2023: Lara Abdelmohsen presents her oral poster “Patient-specific Computational Modeling of Cerebral Blood Flow in Adults with Sickle Cell Disease” at BMES 2023 in Seattle
October 2023: Yuxuan Gu and Junghao Li joined the lab as masters research students in Biomedical Engineering
Summer 2023: Nahom Mossazghi and Joel Disu serve as President and Professional Development Chair of the Inaugural NSBE Healthcare Special Interest Group chapter at Carnegie Mellon University
October 2023: Lara Abdelmohsen, Joel Disu, and Nahom Mossazghi pass their PhD qualifier exam
September 2023: Wanetta Osei-Bonsu, Anjali Belen, Moaz Ibrahim, Anyssa Oden, and Sena Flo join the lab as undergraduate student researchers
August 2023: Antara Titikhsha Barua joins the lab as a doctoral student
August 2023: Shidhartho Roy graduates with his Master of Science in Biomedical Engineering – Research, "Characterization of Skin Pigmentation Influence on Near-Infrared Spectroscopy"
July 2023: Elizabeth Meinert-Spyker present oral abstracts at OHBM 2023 conference in Montreal, Canada
June 2023: Elizabeth Meinert-Spyker and Sharadhi Umesh Bharadwaj present oral abstracts at International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM) 2023 conference in Toronto, Canada
June 2023: Anjali Belen, Moaz Ibrahim, Anyssa Oden, and Sena Flo join the lab as summer research interns through the Pitt EXCEL Summer Research Internship Program, CMU SURA - Summer Undergraduate Research Apprenticeship, and Hillman Cancer Center Academy
Summer 2023: Shidhartho Roy receives the BME Summer 2023 Research Excellence Award
July 2023: Prof. Wood receives PITA grants with Prof. Grover
May 2023: Sharadhi Umesh Bharadwaj graduated with her Master of Science in Biomedical Engineering – Research, "Assessing Cortical Thickness and Volume in Adult Sickle Cell Disease Patients: A Study of Phenotypes and Sex Differences"
March 2023: Sharadhi Umesh Bharadwaj’s abstract “Investigating accelerated brain aging inSickle Cell Disease” and Elizabeth Meinert-Spyker’s abstract titled “Sickle cell disease (SCD) subtype and sex analysis of diffusion metrics on 7T MRI” are accepted to the OHBM 2023
conference.
February 2023: Sharadhi Umesh Bharadwaj’s abstract “Analyzing Cortical Thickness and Volume in patients with Sickle Cell Disease using 7T-MRI” and Elizabeth Meinert-Spyker’s abstract “Patients with sickle cell disease have altered brain fractional anisotropy, axial, mean, and radial diffusivity quantified by 7T MRI” are accepted to the ISMRM 2023 conference.
January 2023: Elizabeth Meinert-Spyker and Sharadhi Umesh Bharadwaj submit to the Organization for Human Brain Mapping (OHBM) 2023 conference
November 2022: Elizabeth Meinert-Spyker and Sharadhi Umesh Bharadwaj submit to the
International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM) 2023 conference
August 2022: Lara Abdelmohsen, Joel Disu, and Nahom Mossazghi, join the lab as doctoral students
August 2022: Elizabeth Meinert-Spyker and Christopher Cover won 1st place in a hackathon at the neurovascular coupling retreat
June 2022: Alexis Duong joins the lab as undergraduate student researcher
Summer 2022: Sharadhi Umesh Bharadwaj receives the BME Summer 2022 Research Excellence Award
January 2022: Jiashu Ren and Shidhartho Roy join the lab as master’s students
December 2021: Elizabeth Meinert-Spyker joins the lab as a research associate
August 2021: First student – Sharadhi Umesh Bharadwaj – joins the lab as a master’s student
