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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...


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


Highlights from MHSRS 2023
With 6 posters and 3 talks, PANTHER had a strong turnout at MHSRS 2023


PANTHER Workshop Poster Awards
A highlight of the 2023 Workshop was the poster sessions. Congratulations to the winners of the poster competition. First Place: Jamie...


Force Health Protection Program Review in St. Louis
PANTHER researchers met in St. Louis for the 2023 ONR FHP Program Review PANTHER researchers presented a combat helmet with an improved...


DURIP Success: nScrypt 3Dx-700 high-precision digital manufacturing platform
Haneesh Kesari's research group at Brown University was awarded a DRUIP in 2019 to purchase a nScrypt 3Dx-700 high-precision digital...


RAND Report on Multiscale Computational Modeling of the Human Body's Response to Blast Trauma
The Proceedings and Expert Findings from a U.S. Department of Defense International State-of-the-Science Meeting have been published. The...


Beyond symptomatic diagnosis of mild traumatic brain injury
It is commonly assumed that there is no brain injury if there are no noticeable symptoms following a head impact. There is growing...


Engineers & Brain Injuries?
Have you ever wondered "What does a Biomechanical Engineer working to prevent TBI do?" Futurum Careers explains how through PANTHER, a...
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