Aaron Vincent, our high school research scholar, was recently accepted to the Air Force Academy to pursue an undergraduate education in Mechanical Engineering! Congrats Aaron and we wish you all the best in Colorado next fall!
The BEST Lab went a practiced our golf game at Topgolf of Richmond to celebrate another successful year of research!
BMES 2019 in Philadelphia was a success! The BEST Lab did great and was presenting tons of interesting work and making plenty of new connections!
Congratulations to two of our postdoctoral researchers in the BEST lab, Evan Buettmann, Ph.D., and Michael Friedman, Ph.D., who have both won Early Investigator Awards from the Indiana Center for Musculoskeletal Health. To read more about their hard work and research endeavors visit https://bit.ly/2IYtivn.
Michael Friedman, a postdoctoral fellow in the BEST Lab, was recently awarded the Alice L. Jee Young Investigator Award to attend the Orthopedic Research Society Internation Biology Workshop in July!
The BEST Lab would like to congratulate Chris Brunkhorst on his acceptance to officially attend Cornell University in pursuit of his doctoral degree in Biomedical Engineering beginning in the Fall of 2019. Chris has worked in the BEST Lab for the past 3 years, exceeding our expectations and growing into an exceptional independent researcher in [...]
The BEST Lab was chosen to have one of our experiments sponsored aboard the International Space Station. Utilizing the ISS we are able to further our research and investigation into the effects of microgravity on bone and muscle. To read more click here.
Michael Friedman, Ph.D of the BEST Lab at VCU was awarded the Translational Research Institute for Space Health Postdoctoral Fellowship. He will study genetic variability in microgravity induced bone and muscle loss over the next 2 years. This highly competitive fellowship allows Michael to further purse his career research interests in musculoskeletal variation and development.
The BEST Lab at VCU is happy to announce it will be sending 9 members of the lab to the Biomedical Engineering Society National conference in Atlanta, Georgia on October 17-20th 2018. Camilla Reina will also be giving a presentation on "Immobilization by Casting Causes Muscle Atrophy in Different Strains of Mice".
The BEST Lab at VCU welcomes Rachel Denapoli, a Ph.D graduate student in biomedical engineering, and Anna-Blessing Merife, a junior chemical engineering student at VCU.
