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I am really excited to share our lab's first paper, published this week! We wrote a review about the most recent advances in motor and sensory recovery using spinal cord stimulation (SCS)⚡️ This includes implanted & transcutaneous SCS #newPI #proudPI sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Very proud to announce the newest PhD candidate in the lab, @melissa_requist! She's crushing her Md PhD program at @UofUMedicine! She is studying foot deformities and Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease incorporating statistical shape modelling. @UtahBME #ProudPI

Congratulations to members of the Deans lab for presenting at the #UBEC24 meeting hosted by @UtahBME. Stay tuned for some awesome defense announcements soon! @FarhanaIslam_19 @ChoudhuryMahi98 @mitchelllewis97 @CandlandDanny

Great day today at #UBEC2024! @renae_lapins and @melissa_requist did a great job presenting their posters and rapid poster talks. Thanks to the UBEC organizers for putting together a great program. @UtahBME #FootAndAnkle #Biomechanics #ProudPI

FRIDAY FEATURE Caleb Berggren is a 5th year PhD candidate in Dr. Timmins’ Cardiovascular Pathomechanics Lab and an American Heart Association. Read all about his work and interests below. We have awesome students!!

Friday 9/20 at 2:30pm, join the panel on #AI for #Pediatric #Cancer at the 2024 #BrainStormSummit in DC! I will discuss the platform we are building at our @UUtah spin-off, and our multi-tensor AI/ #ML underlying it. The @PrismAIThera peutics, Inc. platform is uniquely able to accelerate #PrecisionMedicine. The multi-tensor AI/ML is uniquely able to identify actionable and mechanistically interpretable predictors from small-cohort and noisy, high-dimensional multi-omic clinical data. Let’s partner up to cure the most devastating diseases! #ArtificialIntelligence #Biomarkers #BrainCancer #DataScience #MachineLearning #MultiTensorDecompositions #SingularValueDecomposition @brainstormsmt @HuntsmanCancer @NCIPhySci @OneU_RAI @UofUNeurosurg @UtahBME @UtahCGM @UtahCOE @UTechLicensing @UUSCI @JesTsai

Researchers at @PHCEUutah & @utahbme are leading efforts to study lung and ovarian cancers with over $2M in funding from @NIH and @DeptofDefense. Dr. Taslim Al-Hilal's lab received a $1.4M NIH grant, $173K @theNCI funding, and $500K from the DoD. pharmacy.utah.edu/news/2024/09/l…

I'm honored to represent @UtahBME among the top 15% of undergraduate teaching evaluations in the @UtahCoE for the 2023-2024 academic year! Looking forward to the start of the semester next week! #biomechanics #teaching

In July, Dr. Jindřich Kopeček presented his @JCRnEDITORS Magnum Opus "Drug-free Macromolecular Therapeutics: Multi-Antigen T Cell Hybridizers" at @CRSScience in Bologna, Italy, celebrating the journal's 40th anniversary. @PHCEUutah @UtahBME @uofupharmacy t.ly/Kets7

Join us at the University of Utah on September 21st for the 19th Annual Utah Biomedical Engineering Conference! We invite you to showcase your work and contribute to the growth of knowledge and collaboration in this vibrant community. Visit ubec.bme.utah.edu for more info!

Very excited for my first NIH R01 grant as PI investigating foot and ankle form and function in adults with cerebral palsy. I'm grateful for this collaboration with @KarenKrugerPhD! Thanks to @UofUOrtho @UtahBME @NIH_NIAMS for all the support! medicine.utah.edu/orthopaedics/n…

The late Dr. Sung Wan Kim was honored as a "Person of National Merit in Science and Technology, Korea" and inducted into the Korea Science and Technology Hall of Fame on May 30, 2024. @2024Wbc @UtahBME pharmacy.utah.edu/news/2024/06/l…

Meet Asaf Zviran & me, representing @UUtah spinoff @PrismAIThera peutics at #ASCO24! Our platform is your operating system for drug development, biomarker discovery, & #ClinicalTrials, & our team is on a mission to accelerate your precision therapeutics! Typical AI cannot generate effective biomarkers, or predictors, from your real-life, small-cohort, & noisy, multi-omic data. But #PrismAI can! And with #PrismAIInside, your biotech company & health system can too! Our AI extends the mathematics that underlies #quantum mechanics to overcome the typical AI limitations. Our algorithms (i) compare & integrate any data types, of any number & dimensions, & (ii) scale with data sizes. Our models (iii) are interpretable in terms of known biology & batch effects & (iv) correctly predict previously unknown mechanisms. Our prospective & retrospective validation of a genome-wide pattern of DNA copy-number alterations in brain tumors proved that the models discover biomarkers, or predictors, of survival & response to treatment that are (v) the most accurate & precise, (vi) clinically actionable in the general population based upon as few as 50–100 patients, & (vii) are consistent across studies & over time. On Saturday 6/1 from 12:30pm online & at 1:30–4:30pm in Hall A, join me as I discuss two recent @NCIPhySci -funded projects demonstrating the power of our platform. a. #AI / #ML-Derived Mechanistically-Interpretable Whole-Genome #Biomarkers of Patient Survival in Pre-Treatment Primary #Neuroblastoma Tumors & Whole Blood; meetings.asco.org/abstracts-pres… b. Prospective #Validation from a Retrospective Trial That Validated an AI/ML-Derived Whole-Genome Biomarker as the Most Accurate & Precise Predictor of Survival & Response to Treatment in #Glioblastoma; meetings.asco.org/abstracts-pres… Thanks as always to our fantastic collaborators, @JesTsai, @PriyaPonnapalli, Elizabeth Newman, Penelope Miron, @KristyLSMisk, @KristinWaite, @NSosonkina, Sara Coppens, Anthony Bryan, @EstevanKiernan, Huanming Yang, Jay Bowen, @GhunwaNakouzi, @NCIJBSloan, Andrew Sloan, & Tiffany Hodges, our amazing program managers, @Nas_Zahir, David Miller, @EMJChavarria, @SEHanlon, & Jennifer Couch, the awesome team at @AltitudeLab, @Chandanananana, Kapil Sharma, & Lauryn Narramore, & the wonderful team at @UTechLicensing, Aaron Duffy, & Eric Paulsen! Reach out to us to schedule a meeting! @UUSCI @HuntsmanCancer @UtahCGM @UtahBME @UtahCOE @UofUNeurosurg @OneU_RAI #ArtificialIntelligence #DataScience #MachineLearning #BrainCancer #Cancer #PrecisionMedicine #Research

We took an updated lab photo today!

Hydrophilic biomaterials: From crosslinked and self-assembled hydrogels to polymer-drug conjugates and drug-free macromolecular therapeutics. | Jindřich Kopeček @UtahBME | [50 days' free access] #hydrogel #SelfAssembly #copolymer #DrugConjugate authors.elsevier.com/a/1j6DicI2-5woN

After @H_Ghandehari graduated from the @uutah, he spent about 11 years working for other universities before he made his way back to the U. Since returning, Ghandehari has established himself as one of the great U researchers. @PHCEUutah @UtahBME technologylicensing.utah.edu/news-events/ac…