News

2 April 2026
Yannik presents at the annual TREC symposium

Yannik presented a poster title “A High-Fidelity Finite Element Framework to Elucidate Mechanosensitive Pathways in Colorectal Cancer with a Novel Bioreactor” at the 2026 Texas TREC Annual Research Symposium. Exciting research in collaboration with the Raghavan lab at TAMU BME. Nice work Yannik!

20-25 July 2025
Usman presents at GRC

Usman presented his research at the GRC Biomechanics in Vascular Biology and Disease in Ventura, CA. His poster was titled “Assessing Uncertainty in Patient-Specific Steady CFD Models of Coronary Arteries.” Great job, Usman!

7 August 2025
Jack successfully defends his PhD!

Thrilled to celebrate Dr. Jack Wang on defending his PhD! He has been a driving force in the lab, tackling challenges with creativity, cleverness, and determination while inspiring those around him. While we will miss your contributions day to day, we are confident you will continue to do incredible things in your career ahead! Next stop – Exponent.

25 April 2025
Caleb successfully defends his PhD!

A huge congratulations to Dr. Caleb Berggren on successfully defending his PhD. From day one, Caleb brought an unmatched level of creativity, technical depth, and perseverance to his projects in the lab. While we are sad to see him leave, we are excited to see what comes next. Next stop – GE Healthcare.

11 April 2025
David successfully defends his PhD!

Another great engineer/scientist launched from the lab – congratulations Dr. David Jiang! You have been a staple in the lab and will be missed. Looking forward to seeing the impact you’ll make in the next chapter of your career — keep pushing boundaries, solving big problems, and bringing the same curiosity, drive, and joy that made you such a pleasure to work with! Next stop – Medtronic Neurovascular.

22-25 June 2025
The lab attends SBC in New Mexico

The CVPM had 4 presentations at SBC 2025 in Santa Ana Pueblo, New Mexico. David and Usman gave podium presentations, Jack presented a poster, and Caleb was selected to give a podium talk for the PhD Student Paper Competition. Congratulations on representing the lab so successfully!

Holiday Party 2020

17 December 2020
Virtual Holiday Party

Although we could not get together in person, the lab enjoyed getting together and celebrating the many successes….and we enjoyed a VERY competitive game of Jeopardy.

June 2020
Three Presentations at SB3C 2020

David, Elliott, and Kelly all gave great presentations at the virtual Summer Biomechanics, Bioengineering and Biotransport Conference. And we enjoyed a virtual get-together with our Utah colleagues.

1 January 2020
CVPM lab awarded R01 from the NIH

The year started off to a great start as we were awarded funding for a project entitled “Biomechanics Indices for Coronary Lesion Rupture Risk and Lesion Prognostication”. More information about the grant can be found here. We look forward to working with collaborators at U. of Utah, Emory Univ. and Univ. of Cambridge. Thanks NIH!

May 2019
Michael’s UROP proposal is successful

Congratulations to Michael for the funding of his Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP) proposal for Summer 2019 on his project titled “Improving the 3D Reconstruction of a Deployed Stent by Optimizing the Parameters and Algorithm Efficiency in Stent Detection.”

10 May 2018
Mark defends his MS Thesis research

Congratulations to Mark Elliott for passing his MS thesis research and oral exam on his research titled “Establishment of an Automated Algorithm Utilizing Optical Coherence Tomography and Micro-Computed Tomography Imaging to Reconstruct the 3D Deformed Stent Geometry”. Excellent job, Mark, and congrats on graduating!

1 April 2018
CVPM awarded grant from AHA

The CVPM was awarded research funding from the American Heart Association on a project entitled “Optimizing Treatment of Coronary Bifurcation Lesions with Novel Interventional Device”. Thanks AHA! 

13 December 2017
David receives second-round of UROP funding

David’s research project directed at designing a computer-controlled flow circuit to advance the development and application of cardiac MR techniques that interrogate the in vivo biomechanical environment was renewed for Spring 2018. Congratulations David!

14 October 2017
Mark presents at BMES 2017

Mark gave the CVPM lab’s first presentation at a conference. Mark gave a podium presentation entitled “Image Processing Framework Utilizing OCT and MicroCT to Characterize the 3D Deformed In Vivo Stent Geometry”. Great talk, Mark!

14 October 2017
Billy presents at SPUR Symposium

Billy presented his summer research entitled “Design and Construction of a Computer-Controlled Biaxial Testing Device for Vascular Tissue” at the SPUR Symposium. We enjoyed having you in the lab this summer, Billy!

16 May 2017
Billy Jeon joins CVPM lab for the summer

Billy has joined the CVPM lab for the summer as part of the Summer Program for Undergraduate Research (SPUR) at the U. Billy is visiting from Rice University where he is an undergraduate in the Department of Bioengineering. Welcome Billy!

5 May 2017
David Jiang awarded UROP award

David was award an Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP) award for the Summer 2017 semester on his project titled “Designing and Constructing a Magnetic Resonance Imaging Compatible Physiologic Flow Circuit”. Congratulations David!