Carnegie Mellon University

Sossena Wood

Dr. Sossena Wood

Assistant Professor, Biomedical Engineering

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Scott Hall 4N103
Carnegie Mellon University
5000 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213

Education

  • B.S., Electrical Engineering, University of Pittsburgh, 2011
  • Ph.D., Bioengineering, University of Pittsburgh, 2018
  • Postdoctoral Fellowship in Biomedical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon Engineering, 2021

Bio

Dr. Sossena Wood received her bachelor's of science in electrical engineering and her doctorate in bioengineering from the University of Pittsburgh. Her postdoctoral training was in Biomedical Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University as an inaugural Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow in Dr. Jana Kainerstorfer’s lab. Dr. Wood will be transitioning from the position of an inaugural Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow to become an Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering in the next academic year.   

Research

Dr. Wood’s research lab is focused on developing a multi-modal, noninvasive hemodynamic imaging technique and data analysis to visualize and quantify the management and the treatment of vascular diseases with neural effects and neural disorders, especially sickle cell disease.  Her lab investigates and evaluates cerebral health biomarkers in cerebrovascular disease populations using multi-modal hemodynamic and neural imaging with MRI, NIRS and EEG, including the neural pathways of pain and cognition. The focus is to contribute to the scientific community's understanding as to why and how cerebrovascular disease changes cerebral health under various functional states (i.e., sleep, rest, cognition).

Research Interests: ultrahigh field and high field magnetic resonance imaging, sickle cell disease, optical imaging, electromagnetic and thermal simulations, phantom

  

Awards and Recognitions

  • American Society of Hematology Abstract Achievement Award, 2020

  • Associate Fellow for Ernest E. Just Postgraduate Fellowship Program, 2020

     

  • Rising Stars in Biomedical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2018
  • Presidential Postdoctoral Fellowship, Carnegie Mellon University, 2018-2021