Stanford’s National Biomecahnics day brought HS students, parents, and teachers to Stanford.

 Johanna O’Day successfully passes her Bioengineering qualifying exam on November 29, 2017.

Johanna O’Day receives a BioX Graduate Fellowship Award to study developing a novel measurement system to understand the neural and biomechanics signatures of pathological gait in Parkinson’s disease.

Stanford bioengineers encourage virtual competitors to vie for a different kind of athletic title

Melissa Boswell was elected as the new International Society of Biomechanics Student Representative for the
2017-19 term.  http://isbnow.isbweb.org/article/students-corner-6/

Scott Uhlrich successfully passes his Mechanical Engineering qualifying exam in October 2016.

Christopher Dembia receives a BioX Graduate Fellowship Award to study optimizing wearable robots for walking.

Shrivats Iyer successfully defends his dissertation entitled, “[Not] Lost in Translation: Optogenetic and chemogenetic control of sensory circuits.”

Xuefeng Chen successfully defends her dissertation entitled, “In vivo measurements of muscle sarcomeres in humans and ALS mice.”

Nature Biotechnology features optogenetic control of pain research in its 20^th Anniversary Issue.

Scott Delp elected to the National Academy of Engineering

Katelyn Cahill-Rowley successfully defends her dissertation entitled, “Quantitative measures of gait and reaching in toddlers born preterm with very low birth weight.”

Matt DeMers successfully defends his dissertation entitled, “Coordination strategies to decrease knee forces during walking to protect the ankle during landing.”

Wireless optogenetics research appears on cover of Nature Methods.

Wireless optogenetics research appeared in the Stanford Report.

Kate Montgomery successfully defends her dissertation entitled, “Optogenetic control of neurons beyond the brain.”

Chris Gorini wins Best Oral Presentation at the Stanford Neurosciences Forum for his talk titled “Optogentic Inhibition of Peripheral Motor Neurons”.

Shrivats Iyer was selected as a Bioengineering Siebel Scholar

Stanford News highlights BioX collaboration to create a miniature wireless device to study chronic pain

Scott Delp is featured as director of a new national center for big-data research at Stanford. A Stanford University News article highlights the new research center.

Optogenetics paper from Nature Medicine featured on the cover of Neuromodulation

 Shrivats Iyer and Kate Montgomery’s work on optogenetic pain modulation featured on the cover of Nature Biotechnology.

NMBL receives $1.8 million from DARPA to create a simulator to predict soldier performance and injury risk.

Shrivats Iyer successfully passes his qualifying exam. Shrivats presented his work on “lluminating Pain: Applying Optogenetics to Study Peripheral Nociception.”

Samuel Hamner is featured on the NBC Olympics website where he discusses the “The Biomechanics of Usain Bolt”. The video is part of an educational series by NBC Learn and the National Science Foundation called “Science Of The Summer Olympics.”

Samuel Hamner successfully defends his dissertation entitled, “Muscle Contributions to Propulsion and Support Over a Range of Running Speeds.”

Gabriel Sanchez successfully defends his dissertation entitled, “A Wearable Microscope for In Vivo Investigations of Human Sarcomere Lengths and Dynamics.”

 Jenny Yong receives a BioX Graduate Fellowship Award to study the effect of foot-strike type during running.

Jack Wang wins Outstanding Talk Award at BMECS for his talk entitled, “Optimizing Controllers of Walking and Running Using Biologically-Based Actuators and Objectives.”

 Kate Montgomery receives a BioX Graduate Fellowship Award to develop implantable optogenetic technologies.

Melinda Cromie successfully defends her dissertation entitled, “Measurement of Sarcomere Lengths In Human Muscles Using In Vivo Microendoscopy.”

Kat Steele was selected for the Dr. Kevin P. Granata Student Award at the 2012 GCMAS Conference for her talk entitled, “How do muscle contributions to support and propulsion change during crouch gait?”

Edith Arnold successfully defends her dissertation entitled, “Computer Modeling Of Human Lower Limb Muscles: How Muscle Fiber Lengths And Velocities Affect Muscle Force Generation During Walking And Running.”

 Kate Montgomery successfully passes her qualifying exam. Kate presented her work on “Delivering light for optogenetic control of motor neurons in awake and freely moving animals.”

Kat Steele successfully defends her dissertation entitled, “The Dynamics of Crouch Gait in Cerebral Palsy.”

 Amy Silder has been awarded the Stanford Dean’s Postdoctoral Fellowship at the School of Medicine for her work entitled, “Relationship Between Metabolic Cost and Joint Mechanics During Human Locomotion.”

Chand John successfully defends his dissertation entitled, “Stabilization of human walking by muscles revealed using three-dimensional muscle-driven simulations.”

 Jenny Yong successfully passes her ME Qualifying exam. Jenny presented her work on “Hamstring Contributions to Knee Motion in Crouch Gait.”

Holly Liske successfully passes her ME Qualifying exam. Holly presented her work on “Inhibiting Motor Neurons With Light (Optogenetics in the Peripheral Nervous System).”

 Scott Delp was awarded the Borelli Award from the American Society of Biomechanics. The Borelli Award, the most prestigious honor given by the American Society of Biomechanics, recognizes outstanding career accomplishment and is awarded annually to an individual investigator who has conducted exemplary research in any area of biomechanics. The award is named after Giovanni Borelli, a mid-17th century Professor of Mathematics from Naples, Italy, who is considered to be the father of modern biomechanics.

Katy Keenan successfully defends her dissertation entitled, “Determination of human articular cartilage functional condition using MRI, creep indentation testing and biochemistry.”

NMBL is featured in Men’s Health. A recent article highlights research by Sam Hamner and colleagues on muscle contributions to proplusion and support during running.

Scott Delp is featured as director of a new national center for rehabilitation research at Stanford. A Stanford University News article highlights the new research center.

Research by Mike Llewellyn and colleagues featured in Technology Review

Melinda Cromie is featured in the Stanford Report. In this video she discusses her work imaging sarcomeres.

Christie Draper is honored as the runner-up for the Clinical Biomechanics Award  at the American Society of Biomechanics for her talk entitled, “Patients with patellofemoral pain exhibit elevated bone metabolic activity at the patellofemoral joint.”

Research by Christie Draper and colleagues are featured in AuntMinnie.com and the School of Medicine Scan Times. Her work comparing PET/CT to MRI was highlighted.

Christie Draper and colleagues are awarded the Correlative Imaging Council/Walter Wolf Award  at the Society of Nuclear Medicine Meeting for her talk entitled, “Correlation between MRI and NaF PET/CT in patients with patellofemoral pain.”

Melanie Fox wins the Dr. Kevin P. Granata Student Award  at the 2nd Joint ESMAC/GCMAS Meeting for her talk entitled, “Contributions from muscles and passive dynamics to swing initiation at different walking speeds.”

 Matt DeMers successfully passes his ME Qualifying exam. He presented his work on, “Estimation of tibiofemoral forces during walking.”

David Parker successfully defends his dissertation entitled, “Coarse-grained structural modeling of molecular motors.”

 Scott Delp is appointed as an initial holder of the James H. Clark Professorship in the School of Engineering. The James H. Clark fund for Bioengineering was established in 1999 by Jim Clark, former Stanford faculty member and founder of SGI and Netscape (among other companies), and was designed to support bioengineering faculty.

Christie Draper wins the Clinical Biomechanics Award at the American Society of Biomechanics Meeting. Her talk was entitled, “Patellofemoral kinematic differences exist between high-load and low-load conditions in patients with patellofemoral pain.”

Michael Llewellyn wins the Journal of Biomechanics Award at the American Society of Biomechanics Meeting. His talk was entitled, “Orderly recruitment of motor units by optical stimulation in transgenic mice”.

Joshua Webb successfully defends his dissertation entitled, “Contributions of the rotator cuff and deltoid to shoulder mobility and stability: a 3D finite element analysis”

 Jen Hicks’ figure is on the cover of “The Identification and Treatment of Gait Problems in Cerebral Palsy”.

Christine McLeavey wins a BioX Graduate Fellowship Award

Sahana Kukke successfully defends her dissertation  entitled, “Mechanisms of upper extremity impairement in childhood secondary dystonia due to cerebral palsy.”

Michael Llewellyn successfully defends his dissertation entitled, “Novel tools to study and restore muscle function.”

Melanie Fox wins the Best Student Paper Award at the Gait and Clinical Movement Analysis Society (GCMAS) Conference. Her talk was entitled “Mechanism of Improved Knee Flexion after Rectus Femoris Transfer Surgery.”

Kat Steele passes the ME Qualifying Exam. She presented her research on accelerations produced by the gastrocnemius and soleus during crouch gait in cerebral palsy.

Sam Hamner passes the ME Qualifying Exam. He presented his research on muscle contributions to support and progression during running.

 NMBL is featured in the New York Times. A recent article highlights Mike Llewellyn’s research on techniques for minimally invasive imaging of sarcomere contractile dynamics.

May Liu successfully defends her dissertation entitled “Muscle contributions to support and progression over a range of walking speeds.”

Melinda Cromie is awarded an SIG fellowship

Chand John wins an Achievement Rewards for College Scientists (ARCS) fellowship.

Katy Keenan and teammates won the national title for Team Time Trial at the National Collegiate Cycling Championship.

Gabriel Sanchez passes the ME Qualifying Exam. He presented his research on regional variations in the depth-dependent strain distribution in the tibial plateau.

 NMBL and Simbios have released OpenSim 1.1, a freely available software tool for biomechanical simulation. Over 1000 biomechanics researchers have downloaded the software and documentation since its introduction.

Christie Draper successfully defends her dissertation entitled “Patellofemoral Joint Geometry and Motion Measured using Magnetic Resonance Imaging.” She is currently a postdoctoral scholar in the Department of Radiology at Stanford.

Michael Llewellyn passes the Bioengineering Qualifying Exam. He presented his research measuring sarcomere length in vivo using minimally invasive microendoscopy.

Melinda Cromie wins the Outstanding Poster Award at the Biomedical Computation at Stanford Symposium (BCATS). Her poster was titled “Posterior Cruciate Ligament Removal Contributes to abnormal knee motion in posterior stabilized total knee arthroplasty”.

  Scott Delp wins the 2008 Van C. Mow Medal, awarded by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. The award is bestowed upon a single individual each year who has made significant contributions to the field of bioengineering.

Katy Keenan passes the Mechanical Engineering Qualifying Exam. Her research presentation described her work using MRI to quantify cartilage biphasic material properties.

Melanie Fox passes the Mechanical Engineering Qualifying Exam. Her research presentation described her analysis of preswing rectus femoris activity in stiff-knee gait.

Edith Arnold passes the Mechanical Engineering Qualifying Exam. Her research presentation described her work investigating the functional implications of optimal muscle fiber lengths of the ankle plantarflexors.

Michael Llewellyn wins the Microstrain Award at the American Society of Biomechanics Meeting. The title of his talk was “In vivo sarcomere length measurement by minimally invasive microendoscopy.”

 Jennifer Hicks wins a BioX Graduate Fellowship Award.

Melinda Cromie passes the ME Qualifying Exam. Her research presentation described her work investigating abnormal knee kinematics in patients with total knee arthroplasty.

  Scott Delp has been appointed as the third holder of the Charles Lee Powell Professorship in the School of Engineering. This professorship was established in 1983 with a gift from the Charles Lee Powell Foundation. It honors the foundation’s founder, Charles Lee Powell, builder, underground contractor, engineer, rancher, and real estate operator. The award of a chaired professorship is the highest honor that Stanford bestows upon its faculty.

Jeff Reinbolt wins the Best Podium Presentation Award at the Biomedical Computation at Stanford symposium. His talk was titled “Investigating Stiff-Knee Gait with Subject-Specific Simulations.”

Mandy Koop passes the Mechanical Engineering qualifying exam

Sahana Kukke passes the Bioengineering qualifying exam.

Chand John passes the CS Biocomputation qualifying exam. His research presentation, “Algorithms for Generating 3D Muscle-Actuated Simulations of Movement”, described his current work.

  Jennifer Hicks passes the ME qualifying exam. Her research presentation described her investigation of the effect of tibial torsion on the capacity of muscles to extend the hip and knee during gait.

Katy Keenan wins a BioX Graduate Fellowship Award.

Edith Arnold wins a BioX Graduate Fellowship Award.

Garry Gold wins the 2006 Lauterbur Award at the SCBT/MR meeting. His paper was titled “Patellofemoral Pain: Analysis with Upright Real-Time MRI and 3D Finite Element Modeling.”

NMBL releases new and improved web site. Working with graphic designer, David Delp, we have created a new website that includes cool graphics, updated research descriptions, and more.

Kate Holzbaur successfully defends her dissertation entitled “Upper Limb Biomechanics: Musculoskeletal Modeling, Surgical Simulation, and Scaling of Muscle Size and Strength.”

Rob Siston wins the Clinical Biomechanics Award at the American Society of Biomechanics Meeting. His paper was titled “In-Vivo Passive Kinematics Of Osteoarthritic Knees.

Kate Holzbaur wins the Pre-doctoral Young Scientist Award at the American Society of Biomechanics Meeting. As part of her award, she gave a talk entitled “Scaling of Muscle Volumes in the Upper Extremity.”

Wendy Murray is honored as the runner-up for the Clinical Biomechanics Award at the American Society of Biomechanics Meeting. Her paper was titled “Significance Of Surgical Attachment Length For Hand Function Following Brachioradialis Tendon Transfer.

 NMBL opens new motion capture laboratory in the Clark Center. The new laboratory is being used by multiple groups on campus, including NMBL, Terry Sanger’s lab, and Ron Fedkiw’s lab.

 NMBL article is featured on the cover of the Annals of Biomedical Engineering  (the second one this year!).The article is titled ” A Model of the Upper Extremity for Simulating Musculoskeletal Surgery and Analyzing Neuromuscular Control” (Holzbaur, Murray, and Delp).

Rob Siston successfully defends his dissertation entitled: “Orthopaedic Surgical Navigation: Algorithm Development and Clinical Implementation.”

NMBL article is featured on the cover of the Annals of Biomedical Engineering. The article is titled “Three-dimensional Representation of Complex Muscle Architectures and Geometries” (Blemker and Delp).

May Liu wins the Young Investigator Award at the Gait and Clinical Movement Analysis Society Meeting for her talk titled ” Quadriceps force in stance limits knee flexion in swing: Insight from a subject-specific simulation of stiff-knee gait.”

 Stanford team wins $20M to establish Simbios, a national center for physics-based simulation of biological structures (Simbios), which will develop SimTk, a software system that enables simulation from atoms to organisms.

Darryl Thelen, Clay Anderson, Saryn Goldberg, and Allison Arnold generate and analyze NMBL’s first muscle-actuated dynamic simulation of a subject with stiff-knee gait.

 Scott Delp, Allison Arnold, and Saryn Goldberg are invited to give the Gayle Arnold Lectureship at the annual meeting of the American Academy for Cerebral Palsy and Developmental Medicine. Their talk is titled “Modeling and Simulation of Gait Abnormalities.”

Blake Ashby wins the James Hay Memorial Award at the American Society of Biomechanics Meeting for his paper entitled “Optimal control simulations of standing long jumps with free and restricted arm movement.”

Allison Arnold wins the Clinical Biomechanics Award at the American Society of Biomechanics Meeting for her paper entitled “Muscle-tendon lengths and velocities of the hamstrings after surgical lengthening to correct crouch gait.

Silvia Blemker wins the Pre-doctoral Young Scientist Award at the American Society of Biomechanics Meeting. As part of her award, she gave a talk entitled “Rectus Femoris Fiber Excursions Predicted by a 3D Model of Muscle.”

Blake Ashby successfully defends his dissertation entitled “Coordination of Upper and Lower Limbs in the Standing Long Jump: Kinematics, Dynamics, and Optimal Control.”

Silvia Blemker succesfully defends her dissertation entitled “3D Modeling of Complex Muscle Architecture and Geometry.”

Jill Higginson successfully defends her dissertation entitled “Analysis of muscle coordinate during slow and post-stroke hemiparetic gait using simulation.”

Saryn Goldberg successfully defends her dissertation entitled: “The Biomechanical Factors that Contribute to Knee Flexion in Normal Gait and in the Stiff-knee Gait of Children with Cerebral Palsy.”

May Liu wins a Student Conference Award from the Gait and Clinical Movement Analysis Society entitled “Are treatments for crouch gait more likely to produce improved knee extension when hamstrings lengthenings are consistent with muscle-tendon lengths and velocities?” at the society’s annual meeting in Lexington, KY.

Silvia Blemker wins The Journal of Biomechanics Award at the American Society of Biomechanics Meeting. The title of her paper was “A 3D Model of Muscle Reveals the Causes of Nonuniform Strains in the Biceps Brachii.”

 NMBL moves to the Clark Center, home of Stanford’s Bio-X program. This move has allowed us to forge new collaborations with various labs from the engineering and medical schools.

 Scott Delp wins the Maurice E. Muller Award for Excellence in Computer Assisted Surgery “recognizing career-long achievements that fundamentally advance the field.” Scott also became a Fellow of the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineers.

NMBL opens new experimental laboratory in the Mechanical Engineering Research Laboratory (MERL) building on campus. The new lab is being used to prototype computer-navigation systems for total-knee replacements as well as to perform anatomical experiments to characterize muscle structure and architecture.

  Scott Delp was appointed as the founding Chairman of Stanford’s new Department of Bioengineering.