02/2018 – Our first Spotlight of the Week goes to undergraduate scholar Brady Reynolds! Brady is a senior majoring in Biomedical Engineering with a minor in Electrical Engineering. In the lab, he is working on his engineering senior design project which is designing an IMU-based control system that will provide functional electrical stimulation for post-stroke […]
11/2017 – Our most recent research on soft exosuits has been recognized at the 2017 International Symposium on Wearable & Rehabilitation Robotics as an Outstanding Poster Abstract and Presentation Finalist!
10/2017 – Prof. Awad joins Prof. Mark Bowden from the Medical University of South Carolina and Michael Lewek and Jason Franz from the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill for a symposium presentation at the American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine on “Diagnosing and Treating Deficits in Propulsion to Improve Walking After Stroke: Clinical & Technological […]
08/2017 – The NRL welcomes Andy Alvarez and Anna Roto as new graduate students!
08/2017 – In a new publication, we show that soft robotic exosuits can reduce gait compensations that people who have had a stroke often adopt in the face of neuromotor impairments. Check out the lab’s publication page or you can access the pdf directly here!
07/2017 – Check out our publication on soft robotic exosuits that can help patients poststroke walk with less effort and more normally at Science Translational Medicine or find the .pdf on our publications page. Also check out the video!
04/2017 – Prof. Awad has been named a KL2 Scholar by Boston University’s Clinical and Translational Science Institute. The program is funded by the NIH National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences.
03/2017 – Undergraduate scholar, Fiona Doolan presents an e-poster, entitled “Paretic Plantarflexor Muscle Function After Stroke: Impairments in Activation, not Capacity, Contribute to Deficits in Paretic Propulsion During Hemiparetic Walking” at the Sixth Annual Translational Science Symposium of the Boston University Clinical and Translational Science Institute (BU-CTSI).
02/2017 – Prof. Awad gives a talk at the American Heart Association’s International Stroke Conference in Houston, TX as part of the Engineering For Stroke Science educational symposium.
02/2017 – Prof. Awad attends the American Physical Therapy Association’s Combined Sections Meeting in San Antonio, TX to give a platform presentation on our recent paper Identifying candidates for targeted gait rehabilitation after stroke: better prediction through biomechanics-informed characterization and a poster presentation on the exosuit technology.