News and Updates
News and Updates
March 2024
- Dylan Easley receives first place award for his GPSS Research Symposium poster presentation!
May 2023
- Congratulations to our new lab graduates!
- Emily completed her undergraduate BME degree (and will now pursue her Ph.D.!)
- Logan, Ghaidaa, and Sarah successfully defended their theses and received their M.S. degrees!
- Dr. Chitra Meduri successfully defended her dissertation and completed her Ph.D. degree!
July 2022
- Congratulations to Steven on a highly successful thesis defense and for receiving his M.S. Degree!
- Congratulations to Georgina on passing her SBES Ph.D. qualifier exam!
May 2022
- Chitra and Georgina presented posters at the ORS Tendon Section Conference at the University of Pennsylvania.
- Vincent served as co-leader with Steve Thomopoulos, Ph.D. for the ORS Tendon Section Conference Breakout Session “Methods for Biomechanical Assessment.”
May 2021
- Congratulations to Kirin, Steven, and Logan -- graduates of Virginia Tech!
- Congratulations to Carrie and Sabah on receiving their M.S. and Ph.D. degrees, respectively!
Kirin Anand BSE Senior Spotlight
April 2021
- Dylan Easley joins the lab as a TBMH Ph.D. student
February 2021
- Sabah's manuscript "A Novel Murine Muscle Loading Model to Investigate Achilles Musculotendinous Adaptation" was accepted for publication in the Journal of Applied Physiology
- Carrie, Zach, and Talia presented posters at the 2021 ORS Annual Meeting
January 2021
- Vincent and Dr. Sarah Greising (Univ. of Minnesota) co-edited the Special Issue “Cross-talk with skeletal muscle and its nexus with regenerative rehabilitation” in Connective Tissue Research
December 2020
- Congratulations to Carrie, who received a Student/Trainee Conference Registration Award to attend the 2021 Annual Meeting of the ORS
November 2020
- Chitra presented at the 7th International Symposium on Focused Ultrasound
October 2020
- Sabah, Chitra, Carrie, and Logan presented posters at the BMES Conference
August 2020
- The lab is excited to welcome two new members: Talia Baddour, VT Prep, and Claudia Cardona, VT senior, Chemical Engineering
May 2020
- Congratulations to Maxine (M.S. in ESM), Morgan (B.S. in BSE), and Colleen (B.S. in Clinical Neuroscience) on their graduations!
February 2020
- Sabah presented a poster at the Annual Meeting of the ORS in Phoenix, Arizona. In addition, Sabah was invited to present a "poster teaser" talk at the Tendon Section Meeting
- Sabah received an ON Foundation Education Grant to present his research at the ORS Annual Meeting
- Vincent began a 2-year term on the ORS Board of Directors and Chair of the ORS Advocacy Council
January 2020
- We are delighted to welcome Emily, Reagan, and Steven as new undergraduate research assistants
October 2019
- Sabah and Zach presented posters, and Vincent served as a co-chair of the "Bone, Implants, and Tissue Engineering Session" at the BMES Annual Meeting in Philadelphia, PA
- Sabah, Chitra, and Vincent attended the 8th Annual International Symposium on Regenerative Rehabilitation in Charlottesville, VA. Sabah presented a poster and was invited to give a "Rapid Fire Presentation"
September 2019
- Dylan Easley joins the lab as a TBMH rotation student
August 2019
- Congrats to Colleen on a successful OUR summer research symposium poster presentation
- Carrie joins the SBES program as a new M.S. student
- Congrats to Sabah-- his manuscript "In-Vivo Efficacy of Recombinant Human Hyaluronidase (rHuPH20) Injection for Accelerated Healing of Murine Retrocalcaneal Bursitis and Tendinopathy" has been accepted to JOR!
- Congratulations to Sindy on completing her M.S. in ESM degree!
July 2019
- Hearty congrats to Chitra on passing the SBES Ph.D. qualifier exam!
- The lab received a VCOM REAP grant to pursue the application of focused ultrasound (FUS) to tendon injuries
June 2019
- Our excellent collaborator, Dr. Anna Plaas, presented Sabah’s hyaluronidase study at the International Society for Hyaluronan Sciences meeting in Cardiff, UK
- Vincent served as an ad hoc member on NIH SBSR & Musculoskeletal, Rehabilitation, and Skin Sciences fellowship grant review panels
May 2019
- Congratulations, Brooke and Maxine, on graduating from the ESM program!
- We are pleased to welcome our new summer students, Logan and Akaela
April 2019
- Professors Wang, Kozar, Feng, and Huang have been awarded a 2-year grant from the Virginia Tech ICTAS (Targeted Opportunity for Proposals, TOP) to pursue a project on Data Mining via Machine Learning for the Analysis of Tendon Ultrasound Images
- Sabah Rezvani was awarded 2nd place for the student poster competition at the 3rd Annual Virginia Tech Muscle Symposium on April 27, 2019
March 2019
- Wang and Huang have been awarded a pilot grant by the Virginia Tech Data & Decisions Destination Area to pursue the development of a Machine Learning Tool for Analysis of Tendon Ultrasound Images
February 2019
- Sabah, Zach, and Taylor presented posters at the in Austin, TX. Annual Meeting of the ORS in Austin, Texas. In addition, Sabah was invited to present a “poster teaser” talk at the Tendon Section Meeting,.
January 2019
- We are pleased to welcome Carrie Cheung (senior, Biological Systems Engineering major) to the lab!
November 2018
- Vincent gave a plenary talk at the ORS Tendon Section Conference in Portland, Oregon.
October 2018
- Sabah and Zach presented posters, and Vincent served as Track Co-Chair (Orthopedics and Rehabilitation) at the BMES meeting in Atlanta
September 2018
- We are pleased to welcome Kierstin Jenne (senior, BSE major) to the lab!
- Our manuscript, “Diffusion Tensor Imaging of Tendons and Ligaments at Ultra-High Magnetic Fields” has been accepted for publication in Critical Reviews in Biomedical Engineering
August 2018
- We are pleased to welcome Chitra Meduri (first-year Ph.D. student) to the lab!
July 2018
- Morgan and Zach presented posters at the VT Summer Research Symposium, organized by the Office of Undergraduate Research
June 2018
- We are pleased to welcome Sindy Hou (master’s degree candidate in ESM) to the lab!
May 2018
- Graduating senior, Daniel, is featured in VTNews!
- The lab welcomes new undergrad research assistants Taylor Kerr and Morgan Herrera (REU fellow)!
April 2018
- Katie’s manuscript Knockout of Hyaluronan Synthase 1, but not 3, Impairs Formation of the Retrocalcaneal Bursa” has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Orthopaedic Research. Congrats!
February 2018
- Vincent will be co-directing the BEAM summer REU program. The application deadline is March 2. Interested undergraduates, please apply!
January 2018
- The lab welcomes new undergrad research assistants Brooke Suesser, Veronica Martin, and Lindsey Richardson!
Katie’s manuscript “TGF-b1 or Hypoxia enhance glucose metabolism and lactate production via HIF1A Signaling in tendon cells” has been accepted for publication in Connective Tissue Research. Congrats!
October 2017
- Sabah presented his in vivo muscle loading project at the IGEP-RMForum at VetMed
- Sabah and Daniel each presented posters at the 2017 BMES conference in Phoenix. Great job representing the lab and our department!
- Vincent moderated the “Injury Biomechanics II” session at the BMES conference
August 2017
- The lab welcomes new undergrad research assistants Joel Neifert, Ed Jacobs, and Maxine Kastriner!
July 2017
- The lab receives a Research Eureka Accelerator Program (REAP) award from VCOM/ICTAS to pursue ultrasound shear wave elastography studies of muscle and tendon
June 2017
- The lab welcomes new undergrad research assistants Emma Stowe, Alex Milowsky, Colleen Valentine, and Zach Kozar as well as our NSF RET fellow Mark England!
- We are grateful to Coloplast Corporation for funding our first study in the area of reproductive biomechanics, in collaboration with departmental colleague Raffaella De Vita
- Our project on eccentric muscle loading for treating tendinopathy was selected for funding by the VCOM Center for One Health Research
February 2017
- Our tendon/ligament chapter is published in the textbook MRI in Tissue Engineering!
January 2017
- The lab welcomes our new undergrad researcher, Alexandra Groen!
October 2016
- Mandeep’s rotator cuff repair biomechanics study is accepted for publication in Arthroscopy!
September 2016
- The lab welcomes our new Ph.D. student, Sabah Rezvani!
August 2016
- Vincent is named the Kevin P. Granata Faculty Fellow
- Katie’s tendon epigenetics paper is accepted for publication in JOR!
July 2016
- Hana and Shaunna concluded their summer research projects and presented posters at the Undergraduate Research Symposium. Hana was selected as the REU program’s representative in the Showcase Podium Session! (please visit our gallery for photos)
June 2016
- Hearty congratulations to Katie Trella, who successfully defended her Ph.D. thesis!
- The lab welcomes Shaunna Young, a NSF RET fellow from William Fleming High School
May 2016
- The lab welcomes Hana Chan, a NSF REU student from Case Western University
- Kristen presented a poster at the SBES Research Symposium at Wake Forest on May 11
April 2016
- Vincent presented an overview of the lab’s research at the inaugural Virginia Tech-Carilion Muscle Symposium on April 14
- Along with the Queen and Socha labs within BEAM, we participated in National Biomechanics Day on April 7
March 2016
- Katie gave a podium talk and presented a poster at the ORS meeting in Orlando
January 2016
- The lab welcomes new members Daniel Surinach and Ellen Hammett
October 2015
- Katie presents a podium talk at the BMES meeting
August 2015
Vincent joins the BEAM Department at Virginia Tech
The lab welcomes its first members, Kristen Hulbert and Connor Herron