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Leanne recently presented her work titled: The effect of extracellular matrix properties on polarized light-based analysis of collagen fiber alignment in soft tissues at the SPIE Photonics West Conference. Her strong work was rewarded with the best student paper in this sub conference (Polarized Light and Optical Angular Momentum for Biomedical Diagnostics 2022) within Photonics […]

Congratulations to alum Dr. Alex Reiter on winning a 2022 NIRA (New Investigator Research Award) award. This award was recently announced at the 2022 Annual Orthopaedic Research Society (ORS) meeting in Tampa, Florida.

Congratulations to Leanne Iannucci on receiving an ON Foundation Grant to attend the annual Orthopaedic Research Society (ORS) meeting in Tampa, Florida. Leanne is a 5th year PhD Candidate and will be giving a talk examining how different tendon-related ECM properties influence polarized light measurements of collagen alignment.

Leanne Iannucci, a 5th year PhD candidate in the lab was awarded an SPIE student travel award to attend the Photonics West conference in San Fransisco, California. At Photonics West she will be giving a presentation based off her accepted abstract; The effect of extracellular matrix properties on polarized light-based analysis of collagen fiber alignment […]

On December 6th 2021 Jeremy successfully defended his PhD Thesis. For the past several years Jeremy has been working in the Lake Lab studying the role of elastic fibers in tendon. Post graduation Jeremy joined the Soslowsky group at the University of Pennsylvania as a Lab Manager/ Research Specialist. We look forward to seeing the […]

Congrats to Dr. Lake as being elected as a Fellow of the American society for Mechanical Engineers (ASME), joining an elite group of fewer than 3,500 Fellows! We are proud to call Spence our PI and can’t wait for many more years of success! Please read the entire Mckelvey School of Engineering article here.

The university recently published an article highlighting class acts in research. Our very own Alex Reiter was one of several researchers interviewed for this article. Check out the university’s article here. Thanks for being such a wonderful asset to our lab Alex!

Congratulations to Alex Reiter on successfully defending his PhD thesis. Alex has spent the past several years investigating the effects of physical therapy in hopes of reducing post-traumatic joint contracture in the elbow. Alex is headed to the University of Wisconsin Madison for a 2-year post-doc position. Good luck Dr. Reiter!

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.

On Friday April 10th 2020 Griffin Kivitz successfully presented his master’s thesis. Griffin did a wonderful job presenting the work he has done on the hernia box over a zoom meeting. We congratulate Griffin on his success and look forward to seeing what the future holds for him!

On Tuesday March 31st 2020 Chelsey Dunham officially defended her thesis to become Dr. Chelsey Dunham. Chelsey did a wonderful job presenting her work via Zoom with over 50 colleagues, friends and family watching. We look forward to seeing Dr. Dunham succeed in her next chapter. Congratulations!