2024/11 | Congratulations to Ashley Ridoutt for passing her Master’s defense on the “Effects of Age, Sex, and Tissue Age on the Mechanical Properties of Local Bone Tissue”. |
2024/9 | Congratulations to Dr. Wang for presenting his work with Hossein Akherati – “Microstructural Invariants: An Intrinsic Measure of Trabecular Bone Microstructural Abnormality” -and Congratulations to Savannah Heath for presenting her work with Ashley Ridoutt – “Age-Related Loss of Bone Quality Originates from Tissue Aging” – at the 2024 American Society for Bone and Mineral Research Conference in Toronto, ON, Canada |
2024/6 | Congratulations to Caroline Schilling for accepting the Extremity Trauma and Amputation Pre-Doctoral Research Fellowship appointment to the Research Participation Program at the U.S Department of Defense |
2024/2 | Congratulations to Savannah Heath and Ashley Ridoutt for presenting “Effects of Local Tissue-Aging on Water Compartments of Human Cortical Bone via Raman Spectroscopy” at the 2024 Orthopaedic Research Society Conference in Long Beach, California |
2024/1 | Congrats to Dr. Xiao for his new post-doctoral position at Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Harvard Medical School. |
2024/1 | Congratulations to Dr. Xiao for publishing “IN-silico simulation of nanoindentation on bone using a 2D cohesive finite element model” |
2023/11 | Congrats to Savannah for becoming a PhD candidate |
2023/8 | Welcome new PhD students, Caroline Shilling and Hossein Akherati to the MBMS lab |
2023/3 | Congrats to Savannah for her manuscript “ASSESSMENT OF GLYCOSAMINOGLYCAN CONTENT IN BONE USING RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY” being accepted for publication in Bone |
2022/12 | Congrats to Dr. Xiao for graduating with a PhD in Mechanical Engineering |
2022/11 | Congratulations to Dr. Pengwei Xiao for successfully defending his dissertation |
2022/11 | Welcome Ashley Ridoutt to the lab as an MS student in Mechanical Engineering |
2022/10 | Congrats to Savannah for her oral presentation at BMES |
2022/10 | Welcome Emily Mora and Tammy Flores to the lab as high-school student and undergraduate respectively |
2022/9 | Congrats to Savannah for her poster presentation at ASBMR conference |
2022/8 | Congrats to Evelyn for her fall internship at NASA |
2022/6 | Welcome Haya Abdelaziz, Evelyn Fernandes, and Delina Yirgaalem to the lab as undergraduates |
2022/6 | Congrats to Dr. Han for her new position as a researcher in Washington University |
2022/5 | Congrats to Michael for his summer intership with Boeing |
2022/4 | Congratulations to Eakeen and Pengwei for their publication on their paper Probability-Based Approach for Characterization of Microarchitecture and its Effect on Elastic Properties of Trabecular Bone
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2022/4 | Congrats to Michael for winning People’s Choice Award in the UTSA Undergraduate Research Symposium |
2022/4 | Congrats to Pengwei for his accepted abstract to SB3C conference |
2022/2 | Congrats to Dr. Han, Pengwei, Eakeen, and Savannah for all getting abstracts accepted to the 2022 ORS Conference |
2022/1 | Congratulations to Savannah for winning the UTSA Transdisciplinary Grand Challenge |
2021/11 | Congratulations to Dr. Han for her publication on how Removal of glycosaminoglycans affects the in situ mechanical behavior of extrafibrillar matrix in bone |
2021/5 | Contratulations to Pengwei, Eakeen, and Savannah for their accepted abstracts to the 2021 BMES Conference |
2021/2 | Pengwei’s paper on Prediction of trabecular bone architectural features by deep learning models using stimulated DXA images was published in Bone Reports |
2020/2 | Pengwei’s paper on Prediction of Elastic Behavior of Human Trabecular Bone Using DXA Image-Based Deep Learning Model was accepted in JOM |
2022/9 | Welcome Michael Castillo to the lab as an undergraduate Mechanical Engineering student |
2020/8 | Welcome Eakeen Haque and Savannah Heath joining our group as PhD students |