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In the News: Blast Exposure and Suicide
On July 23, 2024 the OFFICE OF THE UNDER SECRETARY OF DEFENSE released its Report on Incidence of Military Suicides by Military Job Code...
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PANTHER Postdoc Joins John Carroll University
Congratulations to Benjamin Grossman-Ponemon, PhD who recently joined the faculty of the Physics department at John Carroll University...
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Tangled Finite Element Method
A game-changing solution to a knotty problem in computational engineering https://engineering.wisc.edu/news/a-game-changing-solution-to-a...
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In the News: TBI, PTSD and MDMA
An expert panel recently voted NOT to endorse the use of MDMA for the treatment of PTSD. Much of the news coverage surrounding this...
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Ask an expert: Franck breaks down blast and bump injuries to the brain
The University of Wisconsin College of Engineering, Department of Mechanical Engineering has posted an interview with PANTHER founder...
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PANTHER Postdoc Joins University of Arizona faculty
Alex McGhee, PhD has joined the faculty at the University of Arizona in the College of Engineering, Biomedical Engineering...
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In the News: Brain Injury in Mortar Soldiers
NYT Journalist David Philipps has a new article published 5/2/24: Signs of Brain Injury in Mortar Soldiers: ‘Guys Are Getting Destroyed’...
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University & Industry Collaboration
At Team Wendy facilities in Ohio, the PANTHER team conducted testing of newly designed flexible hybrid electronic headbands consisting of...
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DURIP Success: Confocal Microscope System
In 2021, Prof. Diane Hoffman-Kim's research group at Brown University was awarded a DURIP to purchase a Nikon Confocal Microscope for...
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In the News: Directed Energy Brain Injury
The recent JAMA article Neurological Illness and National Security: Lessons to Be Learned by David Relman, MD (citations below) gives a...
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New Helmet Test Rig at Team Wendy
Team Wendy's new test rig utilizes the instrumented Hybrid III 50th Male dummy to replicate realistic and biofidelic impact kinematics....
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Profound Damage Found in the Brain of Maine Gunman
PANTHER research aims to understand the connection between blast exposure and biophysical changes in the brain. This is the groundwork...
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Low-level blasts from heavy weapons can cause traumatic brain injury
Two engineers explain the physics of invisible cell death https://theconversation.com/low-level-blasts-from-heavy-weapons-can-cause-traum...
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New ONR Funding Awarded
We are delighted to announce that PANTHER 6 has been funded for $10M to research directed energy, blast and blunt traumatic brain injury...
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Pioneering a Physics-Based Approach to TBI
PANTHER aims to quantitatively and deterministically link the physics of a head insult to the resulting biological injury response. read...
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Prof. Henak Earns NSF Career Award
Congratulations! Read the press release here Within PANTHER, Prof. Henak is conducting experiments to understand the properties of the...
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New ONR Funding Awarded
We are delighted to announce that PANTHER 7 has been funded for $5M to research helmet innovations that could lead to preventing mTBI in...
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In quest to prevent debilitating TBIs, new foam material rises to the top
“This material shows great promise for enabling new helmets that are drastically better at preventing concussions,” says Ramathasan...
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Meet Prof. Thevamaran
Ramathasan Thevamaran, PhD, is an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Within PANTHER,...
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PANTHER Postdoc Joins Oak Ridge
Dr. Komal Chawla, will join the Composite Innovation Group at Oak Ridge National Laboratory as a postdoctoral research associate working...
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