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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...


PANTHER's Carbon Nanotube Featured in OnWisconsin
OnWisconsin, the alumni magazine for the University of Wisconsin-Madison, included an article "Smaller Fibers, Harder Hats" that reports...


DURIP Success: Small Animal MRI
Equipment for developing a closed-loop implantable device for monitoring and treatment of TBI symptoms. Aviad Hai, Assistant Professor of...


Engineers make headway in tackling traumatic brain injuries
Adam Malecek of the UW-Madison College of Engineering recently covered PANTHER's growth and progress from 2017 through 2022. See the...


Organoids: Model for Sustained Compression Injury
An in vitro model of sustained compressive neuronal injury and neuroinflammation in which we compress cortical neurospheroids via...


New carbon nanotube-based foam promises superior brain protection
Read the full UW article here See the local news coverage here Under a PANTHER research project funded by the Office of Naval Research,...


PANTHER Workshop Poster Awards
The 2022 PANTHER Workshop in Madison, WI included 45 posters. Three were honored with awards. First Place: Alex McGhee, PhD...


Panther Workshop 2022
After cancelled workshops in 2020 and 2021 the PANTHER team was delighted to meet again for an in-person workshop. The workshop had 80...


New ONR Funding Awarded
PANTHER has received its 5th ONR award for $4.7M to continue research on TBI prediction and prevention. The 6 aims include: Develop a...


Five Posters Presented at MHSRS
Panther PIs presented five posters at the 2022 MHSRS meeting in Kissimmee, FL


Determining rigid body motion from only accelerometer data
New Publication from the Kesari group at Brown University! Read it HERE! Title: Determining rigid body motion from accelerometer data...
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