Brain-Injury

Research Projects

Our multidisciplinary team is comprised of faculty biomedical engineers, neuroscientists and clinicians that recreate eld relevant injury conditions and investigate brain injury in a holistic manner.

Research

Research Themes

  • Characterization of Shock Tubes
    • Parametric Approach
    • End Effects
    • Measurement Techniques
    • Design Principles
  • Dose-response Curve
  • Nano-Technology & Nano Particles
  • Blast Testing of Helmet and PPE
  • Animal injury models
  • Cavitation
  • Pharmaceutical Grade Drug Delivery/Testing in Animals
  • Neurophysiology and Behavioral Outcomes
  • Biomedical and Molecular Characterization
  • Blood-Brain Barrier Damage​
  • Computational Material Science
  • Mechanics of Nano, Bio and Structural Materials and Structures
  • Finite Deformation
  • Nonlinear Finite Elements
  • Superplasticity
  • Composites
  • High-Velocity Impact
  • Interfaces in Solids
  • Thermal Properties of Nanoscale Composites

Projects

"Characterization of the mechanisms causing blast-induced brain injury”, US Army medical command/Henry Jackson Foundation

"Primary Blast Injury Criteria for Animal/Human Models using Field Validated Shock Tubes”, US Army Materials and Medical Command

“Development of methodology for standardized testing under blast loading conditions using modular shock tube”, Program Executive Office, Aberdeen Proving Grounds

“Fundamental Understanding of the Mechanism of Cavitation, One of the Possible Mechanisms of Blast-Induced Traumatic Brain Injury using Surrogate Models”, Office of Naval Research

"Experimental and Computational Studies of Blast and Blunt Traumatic Brain Injury", Army Research Laboratory

"Divergent mechanisms of early cellular injury in high-rate blast and slow im", New Jersey Commission on Brain Injury

"Biofidelic Rat Testing Device (RTD) to Measure Blast Exposure and Loadings for TBI", CFD Research Corporation Under STTR