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
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
