Incoming doctoral student Rasheedat Ekiyoyo was awarded a graduate fellowship as part of the Eugene V. Cota-Robles Program. Rasheedat has an impressive track record in rehabilitation-focused research, and will be joining us in Fall 2023 to start her Ph.D. work. Congratulations and welcome to UCLA! Learn more.
Senior undergraduate Alyssa Tomkinson was awarded a graduate fellowship in the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program. Alyssa has been with the Anatomical Engineering Group since 2020, and has carried out impressive independent research in ankle joint reconstruction. Alyssa will be staying with us at UCLA for her Ph.D. starting Fall 2023!
Senior undergraduate John McCullough was awarded a graduate fellowship in the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program. John has been with the Anatomical Engineering Group since 2021. His work has focused primarily on a compliant knee replacement implant. John will be attending MIT for his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, starting Fall 2023!
Ph.D. candidates Ophelie Herve and Brandon Peterson were featured in a news article about their research projects and the future of bionics. Read the full article.
Ph.D. student Will Flanagan gave a podium presentation on his work in electromagnetic prosthetic suspension. Brandon Peterson (Ph.D. candidate), Bailey Mooney (medical student), and Alyssa Tomkinson (undergraduate researcher) all presented posters on their work in compliant limb reconstruction. We had a great time at the conference, and especially enjoyed seeing the state of the art in orthopaedic technology at the Exhibition Hall!
Ph.D. candidate Brandon Peterson gave a podium presentation on his work in compliant joint reconstruction. Ophelie Herve and Will Flanagan, both Ph.D. candidates, presented posters on their work in ACL injury prevention and electromagnetic attachment. This was an excellent conference, held locally at the university across town, and it was great to connect with other members of the rehabilitation community. Learn more.
We kicked off the year with a fantastic lab retreat at Big Bear, where we set goals for the coming year and had a great discussion about what we want our lab to be known for. Excited for the year ahead!
Seven lab members made the trip down to San Diego to volunteer for CAF’s annual Community Challenge Weekend, and assisted with Blind Soccer, Tennis, Wheelchair Basketball, and the Running Clinic. We had a great time out in the community with these incredible athletes! Learn more.
This was our lab’s first presentation at a national conference! Gracia presented her masters thesis work on an implantable thumb prosthesis.
This five-year grant will support our collaborative efforts in limb reconstruction. Our goal in this work is to restore limb function, alleviate pain, and prevent unnecessary amputation. Learn more.
Several members of the lab presented their research findings at SCR2022, which we hosted on campus at UCLA. Third-year PhD student was awarded the People’s Choice Award for Best Poster, for her work on ACL injury prevention. Prof. Clites also won the People’s Choice Award for his New Faculty talk. A huge thank you to second-year PhD student Will Flanagan, who served on the conference organizing committee and made the event happen! Learn more.
In collaboration with Dr. Nicholas Bernthal, Dr. Alexandra Stavrakis, and Dr. Thomas Hardin (Sandia National Labs), we will be working to develop an implant and prosthetic socket that hold prosthetic limbs onto the body via electromagnetic attraction. These two awards support development of attachment systems for the upper and lower extremities, respectively. Learn more.
First-year Ph.D. student Will Flanagan was awarded a three-year fellowship as part of the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program. Will plans to study new means of attaching prosthetic limbs to the body. So excited for him! Learn more.
Incoming Ph.D. student Michael Rose was awarded a fellowship as part of the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program. Michael intends to develop surgically-invasive EMG-based control strategies for persons with paralysis. We're very excited to have him on board!
Leading a collaboration with a team of surgeons and engineers, our lab has been awarded a one-year seed grant to pursure novel methods of revision knee replacement. Collaborators include Dr. Nelson SooHoo, Prof. Jonathan Hopkins, Prof. Sophia Sangiorgio, and Dr. Alexandra Stavrakis. Learn more.