Congratulations to our graduate student, Eashani Sathialingam, who received the Andy Zebrowitz Memorial Brain Research Fellowship Fund award. This award supports biomedical engineering graduate students in the area of neuroscience/brain research to improve protections for the brain. Find more details here.

Congratulations to our graduate student, Rowan Brothers, who received the the Robert Jones Biomedical Engineering Fellows Fund Award. This award is for outstanding student pursuing doctoral research in the joint Emory/Georgia Tech program. This award, created by Mr. Charles Yates, Jr., Mary Yates, and David Roemer, provides annual stipends to Jones Biomedical Engineering Fellows named to honor the legacy of Bobby Jones as they advance improvements in patient care and the discovery of cures.

In January, the Buckley lab was awarded a 4 year R01 from the NIH/NHLBI to investigate the utility of NIRS/DCS to study the brain in children with sickle cell disease. Children with sickle cell disease have a high risk of silent stroke and cognitive deficits caused in part by anemia-induced changes in tissue-level brain blood flow, cerebrovascular reactivity, and oxygen extraction. This project will determine if NIRS/DCS are sensitive to changes in the brain associated with these silent strokes and their treatment. Our long-term goal is to develop a low-cost brain monitoring tool that can screen for silent infarct risk in pediatric sickle cell disease to facilitate timely therapeutic intervention.