Pelle Ohlsson receives a grant of 150 000 SEK from Sten K Johnson's Foundation to continue the research on methods to find bacteria in blood samples using acoustic separation and trapping for faster sepsis diagnostics. The latest publication about this research can be found here.
Lorenzo Grassi was awarded Oscar II's scholarship for prominent theses at LU during year 2016 (as the only awardee at LTH) for his thesis Femoral strength prediction using finite element models.
Per Augustsson recieves the Ingvar Carlsson Award for promising young scientists. The project will develop acoustic flow cytometry for cancer diagnostics.
For this third year at a row, the biomechanics group with Hanna, Anna and Elin had labs during “Girls in Engineering” (Flickor på teknis) week, where a total of 60 high-school students got to learn about the important relationships between bone mechanics, structure and composition and how they all affect a bones ability to resist loading. [...]