NEWS

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

2024/1Congrats to Dr. Xiao for his new post-doctoral position at Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Harvard Medical School.
2024/1Congratulations to Dr. Xiao for publishing “IN-silico simulation of nanoindentation on bone using a 2D cohesive finite element model”
2023/11Congrats to Savannah for becoming a PhD candidate
2023/8Welcome new PhD students, Caroline Shilling and Hossein Akherati to the MBMS lab
2023/3Congrats to Savannah for her manuscript “ASSESSMENT OF GLYCOSAMINOGLYCAN CONTENT IN BONE USING RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY” being accepted for publication in Bone
 2022/12Congrats to Dr. Xiao for graduating with a PhD in Mechanical Engineering
2022/11Congratulations to Dr. Pengwei Xiao for successfully defending his dissertation 
2022/11Welcome Ashley Ridoutt to the lab as an MS student in Mechanical Engineering
2022/10Congrats to Savannah for her oral presentation at BMES
2022/10Welcome Emily Mora and Tammy Flores to the lab as high-school student and undergraduate respectively
2022/9Congrats to Savannah for her poster presentation at ASBMR conference
2022/8Congrats to Evelyn for her fall internship at NASA
2022/6Welcome Haya Abdelaziz, Evelyn Fernandes, and Delina Yirgaalem to the lab as undergraduates
2022/6Congrats to Dr. Han for her new position as a researcher in Washington University
2022/5Congrats 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 

 

 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
2022/2Congrats 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
2022/9Welcome Michael Castillo to the lab as an undergraduate Mechanical Engineering student
2020/8Welcome Eakeen Haque and Savannah Heath joining our group as PhD students