Dr. Deva Chan
Areas of Research
Orthopaedic biomechanics and mechanobiology, biomedical imaging
Projects
Understanding the early tissue response to injury is critical to diagnosis, assessment, and intervention in life-altering orthopedic diseases, including post-traumatic osteoarthritis. True to our biomedical engineering roots, the Chan Musculoskeletal Research and Innovation (MRI) Lab adopts a multi-disciplinary approach - biomechanics, imaging, and matrix biology - to quantify this complexity in health, injury, and repair processes.
We have openings for the following projects:
Projects are also available in ongoing collaborative directions!
- Preclinical models of post-traumatic osteoarthritis (with multiple investigators at IU School of Medicine)
- Biomedical imaging to evaluate orthopedic disease (with Dr. Chad Carroll) and human performance rehabilitation and augmentation using passive and active wearables and haptics (Dr. Laura Blumenschein)
- Computational biology for mouse-to-human translation in orthopedic disease (with Dr. Douglas Brubaker)
Recruitment Needs
Creative and versatile self-starters from diverse technical and personal backgrounds to contribute to our team as MS or PhD students in Fall 2023.
Please feel free to contact Dr. Chan directly.
Email: chand@purdue.edu