June 2013
Adam Caro, DVM presented a poster on the comparison of novel thermoregulatory devices in the use of rodent anesthesia and the effects of body temperature on various physiological parameters at the 2013 Tri-Branch Symposium. The Tri-Branch Symposium is an annual conference for individuals working in the field of laboratory animal sciences encompassing the Delaware Valley, metro New York, and New Jersey areas. The poster was awarded first place in the institutional category by a panel of judges.Congratulations to...
Cori Riggin who was awarded 2nd place in the Solid Mechanics and Design and Rehabilitation Student Poster Competition at the 2013 ASME Summer Bioengineering Conference. Her poster was titled "Analysis of Collagen Organization in Mouse Achilles Tendon Using High-Frequency Ultrasound Imaging."
May 2013
Ben Freedman, Brianne Connizzo, Sarah Ilkhani-Pour, and Cori Riggin recently gave an outreach presentation to the 8th grade science classes at Northwood Academy. This is part of a bigger effort of the Penn Graduate Association of Bioengineering (GABE) to bring science, technology, engineering, and math to students in the Philadelphia community through volunteer outreach programs such as iPRAXIS.Congratulations to...
Ben Freedman for his co-authored paper "Development of a scale for estimating procedural distress in the newborn intensive care unit: The Procedural Load Index" from his undergraduate work at the University of Rochester published in Early Human Development.
April 2013
Congratulations to...Cori Riggin who has been awarded a 2013 National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) Fellowship!
March 2013
Congratulations to...Katie Reuther for successfully passing her thesis proposal!
Congratulations to the Orthopaedic Bioenginnering Program on the successful 5 year renewal of their NIH Institutional Training Grant "Training in Musculoskeletal Research"
LeAnn Dourte for her paper entitled "Mechanical, Compositional and Structural Properties of the Mouse Patellar Tendon with Changes in Biglycan Gene Expression" accepted for publication in the Journal of Orthopedic Research.
January 2013
Congratulations to...Mark Buckley for his paper entitled "Validation of a Damage Model for Aging and In Vivo Injury of the Murine Patellar Tendon" accepted for publication in the Journal of Biomechanical Engineering.
Bri Connizzo and Sarah Yannascoli for their paper entitled "Structure-Function Relationships of Postnatal Tendon Development: A Parallel to Healing" accepted for publication in Matrix Biology.
December 2012
Goodbye to...Mark Buckley who has accepted an Assistant Professor position at the University of Rochester. Good Luck!
November 2012
Congratulations to...Katie Reuther and Steve Thomas for their paper entitled "Effect of Return to Overuse Activity Following an Isolated Supraspinatus Tendon Tear On Adjacent Intact Tendons and Glenoid Cartilage in a Rat Model" accepted for publication in the Journal of Orthopedic Research.
Andrew Dunkman for his paper entitled "Decorin Expression Is Important for Age-Related Changes in Tendon Structure and Mechanical Properties" accepted for publication in Matrix Biology.
Bri Connizzo for her paper entitled "Effect of Age and Proteoglycan Deficiency on Collagen Fiber Re-Alignment and Mechanical Properties in Mouse Supraspinatus Tendon," accepted for publication in the Journal of Biomechanical Engineering.
Bri Connizzo for winning 1st place in the Biomechanics Poster Competition at the Penn Center for Musculoskeletal Disorders 9th Annual Symposium!
Soslowsky Lab Football Party!!
October 2012
Congratulations to...Ben Freedman for his paper "Predicting three-dimensional patellofemoral kinematics from static imaging-based alignment measures," from his undergraduate work at the NIH, published in the Journal of Orthopaedic Research.
September 2012
Congratulations to...Ben Freedman for successfully passing his PhD qualifier exam!
Cori Riggin for successfully passing her qualifying examination!
July 2012
Welcome to...New Orthopaedic Resident Sarah Yannascoli!
New Veterinary Resident Adam Caro!
Congratulations to...
Sarah Ilkhani-Pour and Andrew Dunkman for their paper entitled "The Basic Science of Rotator Cuff Tendons and Healing" accepted for publication in the Orthopaedic Knowledge Update: Specialty Series.
Soslowsky Lab Pool Party!!
June 2012
Congratulations to...Bri Connizzo for winning 1st place in the Master's Student Paper Competition: Solids, Imaging and Orthopaedic Category at the 2012 ASME summer Bioengineering Conference in Fajardo, Puerto Rico!
May 2012
Congratulations to...Kristin Miller for successfully completing her thesis proposal!
March 2012
Congratulations to...Kristin Miller for her paper "Examining Differences in Local Collagen Fiber Crimp Frequency Throughout Mechanical Testing in a Developmental Mouse Supraspinatus Tendon Model" published in Journal of Biomechanics.
February 2012
Congratulations to...David Beason for his paper "Development and Evaluation of Multiple Tendon Injury Models in the Mouse" published in Journal of Biomechanics.
Kristin Miller for her paper "Effect of Preconditioning and Stress Relaxation on Local Collagen Fiber Re-Alignment: Inhomogeneous Properties of Rat Supraspinatus Tendon" published in Journal of Biomechanics.
Katie Reuther for her paper "Glenoid Cartilage Mechanical Properties Decrease Following Rotator Cuff Tendon Tears in a Rat Model" published in Journal of Orthopedic Research.
January 2012
Welcome to...New Graduate Student Ben Freedman!
New Graduate Student Cori Riggin!
Congratulations to...
Sarah Yannascoli for having her grant "Influence of Locally and Systemically Delivered Ibuprofen on Rotator Cuff Healing in a Rat Model" funded by the OREF for this year!
David Beason for his paper entitled "Fiber-Aligned Polymer Scaffolds for Rotator Cuff Repair in a Rat Model" published in Journal of Shoulder and Elbow Surgery.
December 2011
Congratulations to...Kristin Miller for her paper entitled "Collagen Fiber Re-Alignment in a Neonatal Developmental Mouse Supraspinatus Tendon Model" published in Annals of Biomedical Engineering.
November 2011
Congratulations to...Stephen Thomas for his paper entitled "The Upper Band of the Subscapularis Tendon in the Rat has Inferior Mechanical Properties" published in Journal of Shoulder and Elbow Surgery.
October 2011
Congratulations to...Spencer Szczesny for his paper entitled "Biaxial Tensile Testing and Constitutive Modeling of Human Supraspinatus Tendon" published in Journal of Biomechanical Engineering.