Category Archives: News & Awards

NIH R21 Grant Awarded

In July, Dr. Buckley received an R21 from the NIH/NHLBI through their “Bold New Bioengineering Methods and Approaches for Heart, Lung, Blood, and Sleep Disorders and Diseases” funding opportunity.  Her proposal, entitled “Microvascular cerebral blood flow measured with diffuse correlation spectroscopy in children with sickle cell disease”, will assess the feasibility of a new, low-cost, non-invasive technology known as diffuse correlation spectroscopy, to quantify blood flow in the brain of sickle cell patients through a complementary set of experiments in model systems, mice with sickle cell disease, and human patients.  The long-term goal of our research is to use diffuse correlation spectroscopy for longitudinal evaluation of blood flow in children with sickle cell disease in order to reduce the incidence of stroke, to guide therapies, and to ultimately improve outcomes.  Dr. Buckley’s collaborators on this project include Dr. Wilbur Lam (Emory/GT, BME) and Dr. David Archer (Emory, Pediatrics).

Neurotrauma 2017 – Snowbird, Utah

Congratulations to Bharat Sanders who received a competitive travel grant to present his work at the 35th Annual National Neurotrauma Symposium, Neurotrauma 2017, held in Snowbird Utah.  His work, entitled “Biomechanics of a weight-drop model of sports concussion”, explored the rotational and translational forces associated with the repetitive mild TBI model our laboratory uses.

Congratulations, Peter!

Congratulations to our high school student intern, Peter Lee! Not only was he recently the recipient of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution’s Best All-Around Senior Award at Druid Hills High School, he is also the Salutatorian of his graduating class! Peter has been carrying out incredible research in the Buckley Lab for the last 2+ years, and he is excited to announce that he will be attending Georgia Tech in the Fall. Congratulations, Peter!