Congratulations to Triniti, our collaborator, for winning first place in the poster competition at the Third Annual Workshop on Imaging and Data Science!
Congratulations to Dr. Pence on being named one of the recipients of a Berns-SPIE SPARK Grants from SPIE to develop a fiber optic probe for the clinical assessment of pelvic organ prolapse!
Congrats to Mari on passing her proposal defense!
Sanjana presented her summer research at the Summer Platform for Undergraduate Research! Sanjana was a visiting BE STARS student from UT Austin and is interested in pursuing a PhD in Biomedical Engineering! Follow along her journey here:
SB3C 2024 in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin! Congratulations to Mari, Qinhan, Triniti (Pence Lab), Andrew (Ferruzzi Lab), and Adil (Ferruzzi Lab) on their hard work and for presenting their exciting results!
A warm welcome to our newest PhD student, Annika! Annika is from Seattle, Washington and will be joining the vaginal extension-inflation and Raman spectroscopy teams!
Congratulations to Jasmine on her graduation from Tulane University! Jasmine graduated with a BS in Biological Chemistry and a Public Health minor. She will pursue an MPhil in Medical Science (OBGYN) at the University of Cambridge as a Fullbright Scholar, followed by an MD at Vanderbilt University. We are so proud of all of her achievements as an undergrad and wish her the best moving forward <3
Congratulations to Lily for being awarded the Excellence in Education Foundation Doctoral Fellowship for the 2024-2025 academic year!
Congratulations to Fatemeh on passing the qualifying exam, the first milestone of her PhD!!
Lily, Qinhan, and Mari presented posters at the 29th Annual Texas Forum for Reproductive Sciences at UTSW! Congratulations to our collaborator, Triniti, for being awarded the top podium presentation!
Congratulations to Deepa Vasudevan for being selected as an undergraduate Bioengineering Researcher for Fall 2024!
Congratulations to Jasmine for successfully defending her honors thesis!!
Congratulations to Mari on being awarded a President’s Plenary Award at the 71st Annual SRI Scientific Meeting! This award recognizes the four highest-ranked abstracts, and awardees were chosen to present during the President’s New Investigator Plenary Session.
Triniti and Mari presenting posters at SRI 2024!
SRI 2024 Highlights!!
Lab feature on UTD Today! Read the article here: UTD Engineers, Scientists Strengthen Teamwork with Physicians.
Congratulations to Shelby for her publication in Acta Biomaterialia, highlighting changes in contractility, mechanics, and microstructure in the murine vagina with age! Read the publication here: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actbio.2023.12.035.
Mari presented her work on the elastic fiber deficient cervix at the 2023 Biomedical Engineering Symposium at UTSW this year!
Congrats to Qinhan for defending his prospectus!
Mari and Lily presented at Works in Progress, the UTSW Biomedical Engineering fall semester seminar
Congrats to Lily + team on her review article encompassing bioengineering methods in the vagina was published in Current Research in Physiology! Read the article here: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10724214/
UT Southwestern and UT Dallas officially dedicated the new Texas Instruments Biomedical Engineering and Biomedical Sciences Building. We are thrilled to participate in this momentous occasion and look forward to new collaborations and exciting research opportunities.
Lily was selected as a Graduate Student Ambassador for the Bioengineering Department at UT Dallas! Learn more about Lily here: https://t.co/VjGVEJhrit.
View the other Bioengineering Graduate Student Ambassadors here: https://be.utdallas.edu/people/graduate-student-ambassadors/
We would like to welcome our newest PhD student, Fatemeh to the BG&R family! Fatemeh is from Tabriz, Iran and will be joining the planar biaxial team investigating murine vaginal mechanics!
