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The Center for Inclusive Design and Engineering (CIDE) received over $1.3 million in program and research grants during the past year. LUCI’s power wheelchair sensor technology, developed in partnership with CIDE’s Clinic … Continue Reading Center for Inclusive Design and Engineering
Dr. Weir’s Biomechatronics Development Laboratory has had a very successful year with noteworthy accomplishments of four US patents (link) and 11 (link) publications (one in Nature Biomed. Eng.) as well as a multitude of grant awards totaling $4,660,729. Postdoctoral Fellow Arjun Fontaine, … Continue Reading Biomechatronics Lab
The Benninger Imaging and Biophysics Lab had a very busy fiscal year with an array of grants, including 2 R01 competitive renewals (each totaling over $1.5M) as well as an AB Nexus grant jointly with the Borden lab ($125,000). These will enable studies … Continue Reading Benninger Imaging and Biophysics Lab
Jennifer Wagner and Steven Lammers had three publications (1,2,3) this last fiscal year and completed $40k in projects through the Bioinnovation Program CCBI.
The Smith Pulmonary and Biomechanics Laboratory published eleven papers in the past fiscal year (1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11). These studies of acute respiratory distress syndrome and ventilator-induced lung injury formed the basis for a … Continue Reading Smith Pulmonary and Biomechanics Laboratory
The Gibson Biophotonics Lab was awarded several grants this past fiscal year; a UF1 together with affiliate faculty member Diego Restrepo, for the amount of $2,990,152 for development of miniature photonics devices for neural … Continue Reading The Gibson Biophotonics Lab
The Neeves Lab was awarded several grants including an NIH R01 for an integrated computational and experimental approach to understand the hemostatic response during treatment of bleeding and an NIH R21 for Encapsulated platelet in cast hydrogels (EPIC) to measure single platelet structure-function … Continue Reading The Neeves Lab
Brisa Peña’s lab for Biomedical Nanotechnology and Tissue Engineering was awarded an NIH K25 for Injectable Carbon Nanotube-Functionalized Hydrogel for miRNA Delivery in the amount of $891,215 and published five papers in the last fiscal year (1,2,3,4,5). Jeffrey Innen will join … Continue Reading Brisa Peña’s lab for Biomedical Nanotechnology and Tissue Engineering
The Kheyfets Cardiovascular Research Lab published an impressive nine papers over the last fiscal year, five in 2020 and four in 2021 (1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9). Vitaly Kheyfets was invited to speak at Yale University in 2020 and invited to give the Pulmonary Hypertension Grand Rounds talk … Continue Reading The Kheyfets Cardiovascular Research Lab
The Magin Lab for Bioinspired Pulmonary Engineering was awarded an NIH R01 for Hybrid Hydrogel Biomaterials Comprising Clickable Decellularized Extracellular Matrix for Engineering Dynamic 3D Models of Fibrosis for $2,575,209 as well as an NIH R21 for Engineering ex vivo models … Continue Reading The Magin Lab for Bioinspired Pulmonary Engineering
The Park Translational Biomaterials Lab was awarded an NIH R01 in the amount of $1,537,240 on their engineered multi-therapeutic agents delivery system towards retinal ganglion cell axon regeneration. They also published a paper Improved Coverage of Mouse Myelomeningocele With a Mussel Inspired … Continue Reading Park Translational Lab
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