In May, Drs. Buckley and Wood were awarded a Co-PI Peer Reviewed Alzheimer’s Research Program grant from the Department of Defense to 1) investigate acute hemodynamic and metabolic biomarkers of long-term pathological changes (i.e., amyloid beta and tau tangles) after repetitive sports-related head injury, and 2) understand inflammatory mechanisms driving changes in these acute biomarkers. Promising biomarkers found in this proposal can be readily translated to controlled clinical studies, as many of the parameters we are studying can be quantified non-invasively in the emergency room, battlefield, or sideline setting. Further, successful drug treatments found in our mechanistic evaluation could represent easily translatable therapies to test in patient studies, as some of the drugs we are testing are already approved for clinical use by the FDA.
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Buckley lab at the 2018 BMES Conference in Atlanta
The Biomedical Engineering Society holds its annual conference in Atlanta, and biomedical engineers, researchers, and industry representatives come together from all over the nation to learn about current research and techniques being implemented in the field. You can find out more about the conference, as well as the organization here.
This year, we are super proud of our students who presented their research poster at the conference symposium!
Postdoc Paul Lee wins Best Talk at Postdoctoral Research Symposium
Congratulations to our postdoctoral fellow, Dr. Paul Lee, for representing Buckley Lab at the 2018 Georgia Tech Postdoctoral Research Symposium that was held on September 20th. The title of his talk was “Noninvasive Bedside Monitoring of Microvascular Cerebral Blood Flow in Children with Sickle Cell Disease ,” and he won the Best Talk Overall award.
