2021-2023 - Wood Neuro Research Group - Carnegie Mellon University

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

Spring 2023: Nahom Mossazghi starts the Behavioral Brain (B2) Fellowship, co-mentored by Drs. Sossena Wood and Timothy Verstynen

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: In association with Pulkit Grover, PhD, Jana Kainerstorfer, PhD, Jasmine Kwasa, PhD, Assane Gueye, Ph.D., and Sossena Wood, PhD receives funding for African Engineering and Technology Network (Afretec) planning grant

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.

September 2021: Meta Reality Labs funds “Racially Inclusive Optical Tech: Develop fNIRS for Dark Skin and Coarse, Curly Hair” project

August 2021: First student – Sharadhi Umesh Bharadwaj – joins the lab as a master’s student