September 2024: Shidhartho Roy article is published in the Pulse Oximetry: 50 Years of Inventions and Discoveries in Biomedical Optics
Shidhartho Roy, Jingyi Wu, Jiaming Cao, Joel Disu, Sharadhi Bharadwaj, Elizabeth Meinert-Spyker, Pulkit Grover, Jana M. Kainerstorfer, Sossena Wood, Exploring the impact and influence of melanin on near-infrared spectroscopy measurement, J. Biomed. Opt. 29(S3), S33310 (2024), doi: 10.1117/1.JBO.29.S3.S33310.
Fall 2024: Prof. Wood will serve on the CMU-Pitt BRIDGE center's MR safety committee
Shidhartho Roy starts as a PhD student in Biomedical Engineering for Fall 2024
August 2024: Yuxuan Gu, Joel Disu, and Alex Kirages abstracts to the 2024 CMU BME Forum
August 2024: Joel Disu and Alex Kirages abstracts were accepted to the 2024 BMES conference in Baltimore, MD. Joel's abstract "Exploring Brain Connectivity and Pain Variability in Sickle Cell Disease Using 7-Tesla Resting State Imaging" and Alex's abstract "Melanin Impacts Respiratory NIRS Signal Quality."
August 2024: Gabrielle Ibrahim's poster was accepted in the high school research section to the 2024 BMES conference in Baltimore, MD.
July 2024: Elizabeth Meinert-Spyker, Joel Disu, Nahom Mossazghi, Lara Abdelmohsen, and Shidhartho Roy submitted four abstracts to the American Society of Hematology in collaboration with Drs. Julia Xu and Christine Saber and Prof. Wood.
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
