Principal Investigators: Dimitrije Stamenovic and Bela Suki

Fundamental and applied research of soft tissue rheology and mechanical properties of cells:

• Measuring and modeling mechanical properties of the cytoskeleton of living cells and its interactions with the extracellular matrix.
• Measuring and modeling rheological behaviors of living cells.
• Modeling of pneumatic osteoarthritis knee brace.
• Measurements and nonlinear modeling of the dynamic stress-strain relationship of soft tissues, in particular, of lung tissues.
• Image processing of fluorescently labeled components (such as collagen and elastin fibers) of tissues.
• Nonlinear dynamic modeling of various physiological phenomena such as avalanche mechanism of airway reopening.