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July 2008.
NMBL is featured in the New York Times. A recent article highlights Mike Llewellyn's research on techniques for minimally invasive imaging of sarcomere contractile dynamics. |
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June 2008.
May Liu successfully defends her dissertation entitled "Muscle contributions to support and progression over a range of walking speeds." |
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May 2008.
Melinda Cromie is awarded an SIG fellowship. |
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May 2008.
Chand John wins an Achievement Rewards for College Scientists (ARCS) fellowship. |
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May 2008.
Katy Keenan and teammates won the national title for Team Time Trial at the National Collegiate Cycling Championship. |
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January 2008.
NMBL and Simbios have released OpenSim 1.1, a freely available software tool for biomechanical simulation. Over 1000 biomechanics researchers have downloaded the software and documentation since its introduction. |
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| News from 2007 |
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December 2007.
Scott Delp wins the 2008 Van C. Mow Medal, awarded by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. The award is bestowed upon a single individual each year who has made significant contributions to the field of bioengineering. |
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December 2007.
Christie Draper successfully defends her dissertation entitled "Patellofemoral Joint Geometry and Motion Measured using Magnetic Resonance Imaging." She is currently a postdoctoral scholar in the Department of Radiology at Stanford. |
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November 2007.
Michael Llewellyn passes the Bioengineering Qualifying Exam. He presented his research measuring sarcomere length in vivo using minimally invasive microendoscopy. |
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October 2007.
Melinda Cromie wins the Outstanding Poster Award at the Biomedical Computation at Stanford Symposium (BCATS). Her poster was titled "Posterior Cruciate Ligament Removal Contributes to abnormal knee motion in posterior stabilized total knee arthroplasty". |
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October 2007.
Katy Keenan passes the Mechanical Engineering Qualifying Exam. Her research presentation described her work using MRI to quantify cartilage biphasic material properties. |
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October 2007.
Melanie Fox passes the Mechanical Engineering Qualifying Exam. Her research presentation described her analysis of preswing rectus femoris activity in stiff-knee gait. |
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October 2007.
Edith Arnold passes the Mechanical Engineering Qualifying Exam. Her research presentation described her work investigating the functional implications of optimal muscle fiber lengths of the ankle plantarflexors. |
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August 2007.
Michael Llewellyn wins the Microstrain Award at the American Society of Biomechanics Meeting. The title of his talk was "In vivo sarcomere length measurement by minimally invasive microendoscopy." |
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June 2007.
Jennifer Hicks wins a BioX Graduate Fellowship Award. |
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January 2007.
Melinda Cromie passes the ME Qualifying Exam . Her research presentation described her work investigating abnormal knee kinematics in patients with total knee arthroplasty. |
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| News from 2006 |
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December 2006.
Scott Delp has been appointed as the third holder of the Charles Lee Powell Professorship in the School of Engineering. This professorship was established in 1983 with a gift from the Charles Lee Powell Foundation. It honors the foundation's founder, Charles Lee Powell, builder, underground contractor, engineer, rancher, and real estate operator. The award of a chaired professorship is the highest honor that Stanford bestows upon its faculty. |
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October 2006
Jeff Reinbolt wins the Best Podium Presentation Award at the Biomedical Computation at Stanford symposium. His talk was titled "Investigating Stiff-Knee Gait with Subject-Specific Simulations."
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October 2006.
Mandy Koop passes the Mechanical Engineering qualifying exam. |
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October 2006.
Sahana Kukke passes the Bioengineering qualifying exam. |
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October 2006.
Chand John passes the CS Biocomputation qualifying exam. His research presentation, "Algorithms for Generating 3D Muscle-Actuated Simulations of Movement", described his current work. |
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September 2006.
Jennifer Hicks passes the ME qualifying exam. Her research presentation described her investigation of the effect of tibial torsion on the capacity of muscles to extend the hip and knee during gait. |
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June 2006.
Katy Keenan wins a BioX Graduate Fellowship Award. |
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June 2006.
Edith Arnold wins a BioX Graduate Fellowship Award. |
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April 2006.
Garry Gold wins the 2006 Lauterbur Award at the SCBT/MR meeting. His paper was titled "Patellofemoral Pain: Analysis with Upright Real-Time MRI and 3D Finite Element Modeling." |
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| News from 2005 |
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November 2005.
NMBL releases
new and improved web site.
Working with graphic designer, David Delp, we have created a new website
that includes cool graphics, updated research descriptions, and more. |
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September 2005.
Kate Holzbaur successfully
defends her dissertation entitled "Upper Limb Biomechanics:
Musculoskeletal Modeling, Surgical Simulation, and Scaling of Muscle
Size and Strength." Dr. Holzbaur is now an Assistant Professor at Wake Forest University. |
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August 2005.
Rob Siston wins the Clinical
Biomechanics Award at the American Society of Biomechanics
Meeting. His paper was titled "In-Vivo Passive Kinematics Of
Osteoarthritic Knees." See photos here.
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August 2005.
Wendy Murray is honored as
the runner-up for the Clinical Biomechanics Award at the
American Society of Biomechanics Meeting. Her paper was titled "Significance
Of Surgical Attachment Length For Hand Function Following Brachioradialis
Tendon Transfer ". See photos here.
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August 2005.
Kate Holzbaur wins the Pre-doctoral
Young Scientist Award at the American Society of Biomechanics
Meeting. As part of her award, she gave a talk entitled "Scaling
of Muscle Volumes in the Upper Extremity." |
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June 2005.
NMBL opens new motion capture laboratory in the Clark Center. The new laboratory is being used by multiple groups on campus, including NMBL, Terry Sanger's lab, and Ron Fedkiw's lab. |
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June 2005.
NMBL article
is featured on the cover of the Annals of Biomedical Engineering (the second one this year!).The article is titled " A Model of
the Upper Extremity for Simulating Musculoskeletal Surgery and Analyzing
Neuromuscular Control" (Holzbaur, Murray, and Delp). |
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May 2005.
Rob Siston successfully defends
his dissertation entitled: "Orthopaedic Surgical Navigation:
Algorithm Development and Clinical Implementation." Dr. Siston is
now an assistant professor of Mechanical Engineering at The Ohio State University. |
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May 2005.
NMBL article is featured on the cover of the Annals of Biomedical
Engineering. The article is titled "Three-dimensional
Representation of Complex Muscle Architectures and Geometries"
(Blemker and Delp). |
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April 2005.
May Liu wins the Young Investigator
Award at the Gait and Clinical Movement Analysis Society Meeting
for her talk titled " Quadriceps force in stance limits knee
flexion in swing: Insight from a subject-specific simulation of stiff-knee
gait." |
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October 2004.
Stanford team wins $20M to establish Simbios, a national
center for physics-based simulation of biological structures (Simbios),
which will develop SimTk, a software
system that enables simulation from atoms to organisms. |
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October 2004.
Darryl Thelen, Clay Anderson, Saryn Goldberg, and Allison Arnold generate and analyze NMBL's first muscle-actuated dynamic simulation of a subject with stiff-knee gait. |
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October 2004.
Scott Delp, Allison Arnold, and Saryn Goldberg are invited to give the Gayle Arnold Lectureship at the annual meeting of the American Academy for Cerebral Palsy and Developmental Medicine. Their talk is titled "Modeling and Simulation of Gait Abnormalities." |
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September 2004.
Blake Ashby wins the James Hay Memorial Award at the American
Society of Biomechanics Meeting for his paper entitled "Optimal
control simulations of standing long jumps with free and restricted
arm movement." |
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September 2004.
Allison Arnold wins the
Clinical Biomechanics Award at the American Society of Biomechanics
Meeting for her paper entitled "Muscle-tendon lengths and velocities
of the hamstrings after surgical lengthening to correct crouch gait.
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September 2004.
Silvia Blemker wins the
Pre-doctoral Young Scientist Award at the American Society
of Biomechanics Meeting. As part of her award, she gave a talk entitled
"Rectus Femoris Fiber Excursions Predicted by a 3D Model of Muscle." |
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June 2004.
Blake Ashby successfully defends his dissertation entitled
"Coordination of Upper and Lower Limbs in the Standing Long Jump:
Kinematics, Dynamics, and Optimal Control." Dr. Ashby is now working
as a Biomechanics Consultant at Exponent. |
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June 2004.
Silvia Blemker succesfully
defends her dissertation entitled "3D Modeling of Complex
Muscle Architecture and Geometry." Dr. Blemker is currently an assistant professor in Mechanical &
Aerospace Engineering at the University of Virginia. |
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June 2004.
Jill Higginson
successfully defends her dissertation entitled "Analysis
of muscle coordinate during slow and post-stroke hemiparetic gait
using simulation." Dr.
Higginson is now an assistant professor in Mechanical
Engineering at the University of Delaware. |
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April 2004.
Saryn Goldberg successfully defends her dissertation entitled:
"The Biomechanical Factors that Contribute to Knee Flexion in Normal
Gait and in the Stiff-knee Gait of Children with Cerebral Palsy."
Dr. Goldberg is now a post-doctoral fellow at the Physical
Disabilities Branch of the National Institutes of Health. |
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April 2004.
May Liu wins a Student Conference Award from the Gait and Clinical Movement Analysis Society to present her paper entitled "Are treatments for crouch gait more likely to produce improved knee extension when hamstrings lengthenings are consistent with muscle-tendon lengths and velocities?" at the society's annual meeting in Lexington, KY. |
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January 2004.
Scott Delp, Allison Arnold, Clay Anderson, and Saryn Goldbery are awarded an NIH RO1 grant fro their application entitled "Simulation-Based Treatment Planning for Gait Disorders." |
