The lab has secured a new NSF grant to investigate the mechanical role of elastic fibers in tendons. With collaborator Robert Mecham the lab will using imaging techniques to study tissues which lack elastic fibers to observe the impact on mechanics. For the full story published by WashU Engineering please click here.
The Lake lab recently secured a grant from the Musculoskeletal Research Center at Washington University School of Medicine. With this funding the lab will look to better understand post traumatic joint contracture using machine learning. To see the complete article from WUSLT engineering, click here.
The excitement and interest around the latest NSF grant the lab secured has been fantastic. In the past month the project (which uses polarized light to better understand the UCL) has been featured in the St. Louis Post Dispatch, and on the radio thanks to the National Academy of Engineering.
From the innovative idea and strong work of Chelsey Dunham the lab secured a seed Grant from the WUSTL Center of Regenerative Medicine. The work will focus on mechanical priming to direct adipose progenitor cells toward an anti-fibrotic phenotype. To read the full WUSTL press release please click here.
The Lake lab recently secured funding from the NIH. With this new grant we will continue to study post-traumatic joint contracture. Read the full WashU press release here.
The Lake lab recently secured a NSF grant to continue our work looking at multi-scale tissue mechanics. Read the entire WashU press release here.
The Lake lab recently secured a NIH grant to continue our work on developing an animal model of post-traumatic joint contracture. Read the entire WashU press release here.
Spencer Lake, assistant professor of mechanical engineering, has received a one-year grant from the American Shoulder and Elbow Surgeons to study the causes of stiffness and tightening, or contracture, of the joint after an injury to the elbow, called post-traumatic joint stiffness. Read WashU press release here.