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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...


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...


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...


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....


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...


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...


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...


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...


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...


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...


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...


Meet Prof. Thevamaran
Ramathasan Thevamaran, PhD, is an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Within PANTHER,...


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...


Meet our new HIII head-neck-torso
Through PANTHER 4, we purchased a Hybrid-III test surrogate to simulate head impacts. The dummy is at Team Wendy in Cleveland, OH and it...


White House Demo: Accelo-Suit/Accelo-Randy
ONR Program Manger Dr. Timothy Bentley was selected to demo his Autonomous Casualty Evacuation program technologies to a VIP audience at...


Publication: Block copolymer additives for toughening 3D printable epoxy resin
New PANTHER paper: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.giant.2023.100204 This is publication is form a collaboration between UW-Madison Profs...


PANTHER Postdoc joins Drexel faculty
Neda KaramiMohammadi, PhD has joined the Drexel faculty as an assistant teaching professor https://drexel.edu/engineering/news-events/new...


NYTimes: Repetitive Low Level Blast
Military guidelines say that firing all those rounds is safe. What happened to the crews suggests that those guidelines were wrong. An...


Educational Video: How can we detect and prevent brain injuries?
Inside your skull sits your brain, an incredible computer that controls everything you do. The skull does its best to protect our brains...


PANTHER talk: Mātai Medical Research Institute
On September 26th, PANTHER hosted an online talk by Dr. Josh McGeown and Dr. Eryn Kwon of the Mātai Medical Research Institute
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