News from the Dalecki Lab
News from the Dalecki Lab
Professor Dalecki Leads Course on BME Laboratory Rotations
Thursday, August 20, 2026
Professor Diane Dalecki will serve as lead instructor and mentor for first-year doctoral students in the Department of Biomedical Engineering. In their first year in the BME doctoral program, students are required to complete three laboratory rotations within three different faculty research labs as part of the course BME–593 Laboratory Rotations in BME. Laboratory rotations provide opportunities for students to experience aspects of research within different faculty labs, begin to understand the research process and environment, learn new concepts, develop new skills, and gather experience and knowledge required to choose an area of research and laboratory for their doctoral training and PhD thesis research. Laboratory rotations also provide opportunities for students to meet BME faculty members, other graduate students, and begin their development as a professional scientist/engineer. Professor Dalecki states that she is “excited to work with the enthusiastic incoming doctoral class and delighted to guide them through the laboratory rotation process towards a successful first year of graduate studies.”
Sarah Wayson-Madejski Publishes Paper on New Ultrasound Imaging Technique for Characterizing Tissue Microstructure
Monday, April 20, 2026
The paper "Characterizing tendon microstructure using metrics associated with the angular dependence of ultrasound backscatter" was published in The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. In this paper, Dr. Wayson-Madejski presents a high-frequency, quantitative ultrasound technique, based on the influence of angle of insonation on ultrasound backscatter from tissue. The technique was employed to characterize tendon microstructural alignment and detect alterations in alignment with diabetes and aging. The first author on the paper is Sarah Wayson-Madejski and co-authors are Maria Helguera, Carol H. Raeman, Todd Jackson, James Chwalek, Denise C. Hocking, and Diane Dalecki.
Diane Dalecki Appointed Standing Member on NIH Study Section
Monday, March 30, 2026
Professor Diane Dalecki (BME) was appointed a Standing Member of the Imaging Guided Interventions and Surgery Study Section (IGIS) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The IGIS Study Section reviews NIH grant proposals to advance new biomedical imaging technologies to guide medical therapies. This study section is within the Surgical Sciences, Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering Integrated Review Group (SBIB), of the Center for Scientific Review (CRS). Professor Dalecki’s participation on this study section will begin 7/1/2026 and end 6/30/2030. Professor Dalecki is the Kevin J. Parker Distinguished Professor in Biomedical Engineering, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and the Director of the Rochester Center for Biomedical Ultrasound (RCBU).
Diane Dalecki and Mark Buckley Are Co-PIs on New PumpPrimer Award
Sunday, January 18, 2026
Professor Diane Dalecki (BME) and Professor Mark Buckley (BME) have received a PumpPrimer Award for their project titled "Developing a noninvasive technique to measure metrics associated with mechanical properties of tendon as a tool to guide physical therapy". The goal of this project is to develop a nondestructive, noninvasive ultrasound imaging technology to quantitatively estimate clinically relevant tendon mechanical properties to serve as a new tool to monitor tendon healing and guide patient-specific physical therapy. Co-investigators on the project are Jeff Houck P.T., Ph.D. and Sarah Wayson-Madejski, Ph.D. Professor Houck, Program Director of Physical Therapy Doctoral Program will provide perspective on translating the technique to clinical physical therapy practice, and Dr. Wayson-Madejski brings to the project her expertise in advancing novel quantitative ultrasound techniques for characterizing musculoskeletal tissues.