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Dr. Wood presented at the Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine Research Rounds "Characterizing Pain Phenotypes in Adults with Sickle Cell Disease using Neuroimaging"
May 2025: Joel Disu and Shidhartho Roy present their work at the Inaugural Pain Day
“EEG Spectral Signatures of Sensory Dysfunction and Central Sensitization in Sickle Cell Disease: A Pilot Thermal Pain Study”
"Altered Pain Processing and Temporal Dynamics of Brain Microstates in Sickle Cell Disease Adults"
Our lab has great accomplishments from Spring 2025 BME Diploma Ceremony!
BME Master’s Recipients
- Junhao Lin
- Yuxuan Gu
ECE Master’s and BME Minor
- Alexis Duong
BME Departmental Graduate Awards
- Teaching Assistant Award: Nahom Mossazghi
- Mentor Award: Shidhartho Roy
April 2025: Joel Disu presents his peer-reviewed poster presentation, "Investigating Chronic Pain Mechanisms In Adult Sickle Cell Disease Measured By Functional Connectivity - A Feasible Study" in Chicago, IL
April 2025: Dr. Wood presented at the University of Pittsburgh’s Vascular Medicine Institute
"A closer look at Cerebral Hemodynamics in Adult Patients with Sickle Cell Disease using Neuroimaging"
September 2024: Shidhartho Roy article is published in the Pulse Oximetry: 50 Years of Inventions and Discoveries in Biomedical Optics
Shidhartho Roy, Jingyi Wu, Jiaming Cao, Joel Disu, Sharadhi Bharadwaj, Elizabeth Meinert-Spyker, Pulkit Grover, Jana M. Kainerstorfer, Sossena Wood, Exploring the impact and influence of melanin on near-infrared spectroscopy measurement, J. Biomed. Opt. 29(S3), S33310 (2024), doi: .
Fall 2024: Prof. Wood will serve on the 바카라 온라인 추천-Pitt BRIDGE center's MR safety committee
Shidhartho Roy starts as a PhD student in Biomedical Engineering for Fall 2024
February 2024: Prof. Wood receives the 2024 Black Engineer of the Year (BEYA) Science Spectrum Trailblazer award
January 2024: Gabrielle Ibrahim joins the lab as a high school intern
October 2023: Lara Abdelmohsen presents her oral poster “Patient-specific Computational Modeling of Cerebral Blood Flow in Adults with Sickle Cell Disease” at BMES 2023 in Seattle
October 2023: Lara Abdelmohsen, Joel Disu, and Nahom Mossazghi pass their PhD qualifier exam
September 2023: Wanetta Osei-Bonsu, Anjali Belen, Moaz Ibrahim, Anyssa Oden, and Sena Flo join the lab as undergraduate student researchers
August 2023: Antara Titikhsha Barua joins the lab as a doctoral student
August 2023: Shidhartho Roy graduates with his Master of Science in Biomedical Engineering – Research, "Characterization of Skin Pigmentation Influence on Near-Infrared Spectroscopy"
July 2023: Elizabeth Meinert-Spyker present oral abstracts at OHBM 2023 conference in Montreal, Canada
June 2023: Elizabeth Meinert-Spyker and Sharadhi Umesh Bharadwaj present oral abstracts at International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM) 2023 conference in Toronto, Canada
June 2023: Anjali Belen, Moaz Ibrahim, Anyssa Oden, and Sena Flo join the lab as summer research interns through the Pitt EXCEL Summer Research Internship Program, 바카라 온라인 추천 SURA - Summer Undergraduate Research Apprenticeship, and Hillman Cancer Center Academy
Summer 2023: Shidhartho Roy receives the BME Summer 2023 Research Excellence Award
July 2023: Prof. Wood receives PITA grants with Prof. Grover
May 2023: Sharadhi Umesh Bharadwaj graduated with her Master of Science in Biomedical Engineering – Research, "Assessing Cortical Thickness and Volume in Adult Sickle Cell Disease Patients: A Study of Phenotypes and Sex Differences"
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International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM) 2023 conference
August 2022: Lara Abdelmohsen, Joel Disu, and Nahom Mossazghi, join the lab as doctoral students
June 2022: Alexis Duong joins the lab as undergraduate student researcher
January 2022: Jiashu Ren and Shidhartho Roy join the lab as master’s students.
December 2021: Elizabeth Meinert-Spyker joins the lab as a research associate.
August 2021: First student – Sharadhi Umesh Bharadwaj – joins the lab as a master’s student
