Lab News
New Publication in the Journal of Experimental Biology!
10/2018 - In a new publication in PM&R, we show how people who have had a stroke use a soft robotic exosuit to change the way they walk to make it less effortful. Check out the lab's publication page or you can access the pdf directly here!
Spotlight of the Week #1
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 gait assist. His goal in the lab is to use his background in engineering to help develop rehabilitation technology. You can find Brady working hard in the lab or playing the trumpet in the Boston University Concert Band!
Outstanding Poster Presentation Finalist!
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!
Talk at American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine
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 Advances".
New graduate students
New Publication in the American Journal of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation!
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!
New publication in Science Translational Medicine!
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.
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Prof. Awad is awarded a KL2 Career Development Award
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.
Undergrad Scholar, Fiona Doolan, presents at the BU-CTSI Annual Translational Research Symposium
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).
Undergraduate scholars recieve summer UROP Awards
03/2017 - Lab members Amogh Chandupatla and Arianna DiGregorio are awarded summer UROP awards to support their work in the NRL.