| 2025/11 |
Congratulations to Dr. Savannah Heath for passing her doctoral defense, “Underlying Mechanisms of Age-Related Loss of Glycosaminoglycans (GAGs) in Bone Matrix and Its Effects on Bone Fragility.”
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| 2025/07 |
Welcome to Hong Zhang, who joins the MBMS Lab as a Ph.D. student in Biomedical Engineering. |
| 2025/03 |
Congratulations to Anabelle Rocha for presenting her work with Savannah Heath at the 12th Annual BMES/AIChE Research Symposium.
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| 2024/11 |
Congratulations to Winston Huynh for presenting his senior design project at the 2024 UTSA Tech Symposium.
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| 2024/11 |
Congratulations to Ashley Ridoutt for passing her master’s defense, “Effects of Age, Sex, and Tissue Age on the Mechanical Properties of Local Bone Tissue.”
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| 2024/09 |
Dr. Wang presented his work with Hossein Akherati, “Microstructural Invariants: An Intrinsic Measure of Trabecular Bone Microstructural Abnormality,” and Savannah Heath presented 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 Annual Meeting in Toronto, ON, Canada.
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| 2024/06 |
Congratulations to Caroline Schilling for accepting an Extremity Trauma and Amputation Pre-Doctoral Research Fellowship in the Research Participation Program at the U.S. Department of Defense. |
| 2024/02 |
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 Annual Meeting in Long Beach, California.
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| 2024/01 |
Congratulations to Dr. Pengwei Xiao on his new postdoctoral position in the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Harvard Medical School. |
| 2024/01 |
Congratulations to Dr. Xiao for publishing “In Silico Simulation of Nanoindentation on Bone Using a 2D Cohesive Finite Element Model.” |
| 2023/11 |
Congratulations to Savannah Heath for advancing to Ph.D. candidacy. |
| 2023/08 |
Welcome to Caroline Schilling and Hossein Akherati, who join the MBMS Lab as Ph.D. students. |
| 2023/03 |
Congratulations to Savannah Heath, whose manuscript “Assessment of Glycosaminoglycan Content in Bone Using Raman Spectroscopy” was accepted for publication in Bone. |
| 2022/12 |
Congratulations to Dr. Pengwei Xiao for graduating with a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering. |
| 2022/11 |
Congratulations to Dr. Pengwei Xiao for successfully defending his dissertation. |
| 2022/11 |
Welcome to Ashley Ridoutt, who joins the lab as an M.S. student in Mechanical Engineering. |
| 2022/10 |
Congratulations to Savannah Heath for her oral presentation at the BMES Annual Meeting. |
| 2022/10 |
Welcome to Emily Mora and Tammy Flores, who join the lab as a high school student and an undergraduate, respectively. |
| 2022/09 |
Congratulations to Savannah Heath for her poster presentation at the ASBMR Annual Meeting. |
| 2022/09 |
Welcome to Michael Castillo, who joins the lab as an undergraduate in Mechanical Engineering. |
| 2022/08 |
Congratulations to Evelyn Fernandes on her fall internship at NASA. |
| 2022/06 |
Welcome to Haya Abdelaziz, Evelyn Fernandes, and Delina Yirgaalem, who join the lab as undergraduates. |
| 2022/06 |
Congratulations to Dr. Yan Han on her new position as a researcher at Washington University. |
| 2022/05 |
Congratulations to Michael Castillo on his summer internship with Boeing. |
| 2022/04 |
Congratulations to Eakeen Haque and Pengwei Xiao on their publication, “Probability-Based Approach for Characterization of Microarchitecture and Its Effect on Elastic Properties of Trabecular Bone.” |
| 2022/04 |
Congratulations to Michael Castillo for winning the People’s Choice Award at the UTSA Undergraduate Research Symposium. |
| 2022/04 |
Congratulations to Pengwei Xiao on his abstract accepted to the SB3C conference. |
| 2022/02 |
Congratulations to Dr. Yan Han, Pengwei Xiao, Eakeen Haque, and Savannah Heath, whose abstracts were all accepted to the 2022 Orthopaedic Research Society Annual Meeting. |
| 2022/01 |
Congratulations to Savannah Heath for winning the UTSA Transdisciplinary Grand Challenge. |
| 2021/11 |
Congratulations to Dr. Yan Han on her publication, “Removal of Glycosaminoglycans Affects the In Situ Mechanical Behavior of Extrafibrillar Matrix in Bone.” |
| 2021/05 |
Congratulations to Pengwei Xiao, Eakeen Haque, and Savannah Heath on their abstracts accepted to the 2021 BMES Annual Meeting. |
| 2021/02 |
Pengwei Xiao’s paper “Prediction of Trabecular Bone Architectural Features by Deep Learning Models Using Simulated DXA Images” was published in Bone Reports. |
| 2020/08 |
Welcome to Eakeen Haque and Savannah Heath, who join the group as Ph.D. students. |
| 2020/02 |
Pengwei Xiao’s paper “Prediction of Elastic Behavior of Human Trabecular Bone Using a DXA Image-Based Deep Learning Model” was accepted in JOM. |