2021-2023 - Wood Neuro Research Group - �鶹��

Fall 2023: Joel Disu receives 2023-2024 Neil and Jo Bushnell Fellowship in Engineering

October 2023: Dr. Wood gives research talk at 2023 AfroBioTech in Atlanta, GA

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: Yuxuan Gu and Junghao Li joined the lab as masters research students in Biomedical Engineering

Summer 2023: Nahom Mossazghi and Joel Disu serve as President and Professional Development Chair of the Inaugural NSBE Healthcare Special Interest Group chapter at �鶹��

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, �鶹�� 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"

March 2023: Sharadhi Umesh Bharadwaj’s abstract “Investigating accelerated brain aging inSickle Cell Disease” and Elizabeth Meinert-Spyker’s abstract titled “Sickle cell disease (SCD) subtype and sex analysis of diffusion metrics on 7T MRI” are accepted to the OHBM 2023
conference.

February 2023: Sharadhi Umesh Bharadwaj’s abstract “Analyzing Cortical Thickness and Volume in patients with Sickle Cell Disease using 7T-MRI” and Elizabeth Meinert-Spyker’s abstract “Patients with sickle cell disease have altered brain fractional anisotropy, axial, mean, and radial diffusivity quantified by 7T MRI” are accepted to the ISMRM 2023 conference.

January 2023: Elizabeth Meinert-Spyker and Sharadhi Umesh Bharadwaj submit to the Organization for Human Brain Mapping (OHBM) 2023 conference

Spring 2023: Nahom Mossazghi starts the , co-mentored by Drs. Sossena Wood and Timothy Verstynen

November 2022: Elizabeth Meinert-Spyker and Sharadhi Umesh Bharadwaj submit to the
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

August 2022: Elizabeth Meinert-Spyker and Christopher Cover won 1st place in a hackathon at the neurovascular coupling retreat

June 2022: In association with Pulkit Grover, PhD, Jana Kainerstorfer, PhD, Jasmine Kwasa, PhD, Assane Gueye, Ph.D., and Sossena Wood, PhD receives funding for

June 2022: Alexis Duong joins the lab as undergraduate student researcher

Summer 2022: Sharadhi Umesh Bharadwaj receives the BME Summer 2022 Research Excellence Award

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.

September 2021: Meta Reality Labs funds project

August 2021: First student – Sharadhi Umesh Bharadwaj – joins the lab as a master’s student