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2025\/11<\/th>\nCongratulations 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.”
\n\"Savannah<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2025\/07<\/th>\nWelcome to Hong Zhang, who joins the MBMS Lab as a Ph.D. student in Biomedical Engineering.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2025\/03<\/th>\nCongratulations to Anabelle Rocha for presenting her work with Savannah Heath at the 12th Annual BMES\/AIChE Research Symposium.
\n\"Anabelle<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2024\/11<\/th>\nCongratulations to Winston Huynh for presenting his senior design project at the 2024 UTSA Tech Symposium.
\n\"Winston<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2024\/11<\/th>\nCongratulations to Ashley Ridoutt for passing her master’s defense, “Effects of Age, Sex, and Tissue Age on the Mechanical Properties of Local Bone Tissue.”
\n\"Ashley<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2024\/09<\/th>\nDr. 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<\/th>\nCongratulations 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.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2024\/02<\/th>\nCongratulations 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.
\n\"Savannah
\n\"Poster<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2024\/01<\/th>\nCongratulations to Dr. Pengwei Xiao on his new postdoctoral position in the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Harvard Medical School.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2024\/01<\/th>\nCongratulations to Dr. Xiao for publishing “In Silico Simulation of Nanoindentation on Bone Using a 2D Cohesive Finite Element Model.”<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2023\/11<\/th>\nCongratulations to Savannah Heath for advancing to Ph.D. candidacy.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2023\/08<\/th>\nWelcome to Caroline Schilling and Hossein Akherati, who join the MBMS Lab as Ph.D. students.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2023\/03<\/th>\nCongratulations to Savannah Heath, whose manuscript “Assessment of Glycosaminoglycan Content in Bone Using Raman Spectroscopy” was accepted for publication in Bone<\/em>.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2022\/12<\/th>\nCongratulations to Dr. Pengwei Xiao for graduating with a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2022\/11<\/th>\nCongratulations to Dr. Pengwei Xiao for successfully defending his dissertation.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2022\/11<\/th>\nWelcome to Ashley Ridoutt, who joins the lab as an M.S. student in Mechanical Engineering.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2022\/10<\/th>\nCongratulations to Savannah Heath for her oral presentation at the BMES Annual Meeting.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2022\/10<\/th>\nWelcome to Emily Mora and Tammy Flores, who join the lab as a high school student and an undergraduate, respectively.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2022\/09<\/th>\nCongratulations to Savannah Heath for her poster presentation at the ASBMR Annual Meeting.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2022\/09<\/th>\nWelcome to Michael Castillo, who joins the lab as an undergraduate in Mechanical Engineering.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2022\/08<\/th>\nCongratulations to Evelyn Fernandes on her fall internship at NASA.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2022\/06<\/th>\nWelcome to Haya Abdelaziz, Evelyn Fernandes, and Delina Yirgaalem, who join the lab as undergraduates.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2022\/06<\/th>\nCongratulations to Dr. Yan Han on her new position as a researcher at Washington University.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2022\/05<\/th>\nCongratulations to Michael Castillo on his summer internship with Boeing.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2022\/04<\/th>\nCongratulations 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.”<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2022\/04<\/th>\nCongratulations to Michael Castillo for winning the People’s Choice Award at the UTSA Undergraduate Research Symposium.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2022\/04<\/th>\nCongratulations to Pengwei Xiao on his abstract accepted to the SB3C conference.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2022\/02<\/th>\nCongratulations to Dr. Yan Han, Pengwei Xiao, Eakeen Haque, and Savannah Heath, whose abstracts were all accepted to the 2022 Orthopaedic Research Society Annual Meeting.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2022\/01<\/th>\nCongratulations to Savannah Heath for winning the UTSA Transdisciplinary Grand Challenge.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2021\/11<\/th>\nCongratulations to Dr. Yan Han on her publication, “Removal of Glycosaminoglycans Affects the In Situ Mechanical Behavior of Extrafibrillar Matrix in Bone.”<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2021\/05<\/th>\nCongratulations to Pengwei Xiao, Eakeen Haque, and Savannah Heath on their abstracts accepted to the 2021 BMES Annual Meeting.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2021\/02<\/th>\nPengwei Xiao’s paper “Prediction of Trabecular Bone Architectural Features by Deep Learning Models Using Simulated DXA Images” was published in Bone Reports<\/em>.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2020\/08<\/th>\nWelcome to Eakeen Haque and Savannah Heath, who join the group as Ph.D. students.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2020\/02<\/th>\nPengwei Xiao’s paper “Prediction of Elastic Behavior of Human Trabecular Bone Using a DXA Image-Based Deep Learning Model” was accepted in JOM<\/em>.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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.” 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 … <\/p>\n

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