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Sossena Wood received her Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering and her Ph.D. in Bioengineering from the University of Pittsburgh. She completed her postdoctoral training in Biomedical Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University, where she was the inaugural Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow in Dr. Jana Kainerstorfer’s lab. Dr. Wood is currently transitioning from her postdoctoral role to become an Assistant Professor in Biomedical Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. Her research lab focuses on developing multi-modal, noninvasive hemodynamic imaging techniques and data analysis to visualize and quantify the management and treatment of vascular diseases and neural effects related to neural disorders, with particular attention to sickle cell disease. Her lab investigates and evaluates cerebral health biomarkers in populations with cerebrovascular diseases using multi-modal hemodynamic neural imaging including MRI, NIRS, and EEG. The goal of her research is to contribute to the scientific community's understanding of cerebrovascular disease and changes in cerebral health across functional states such as sleep, rest, and cognition.
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