BAT Lab Receives 3-Year NSF Grant, and New Balance Footwear Award
The BAT lab has received a 3-year, ~$300K grant from the NSF General & Age-Related Disabilities Engineering program. The research project, entitled “Leveraging Toe Dynamics to Improve Prosthetic Feet and Amputee Mobility,” will involve PhD student Eric Honert, and be carried our in collaboration with Dr. Gerasimos Bastas, Assistant Professor and the Director of Limb Loss Rehabilitation in the department of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation at Vanderbilt.
The BAT lab also received a New Balance Footwear Research Award. New Balance will generously provide custom footwear, which will enable us to study how personalizing shoe properties, specifically cushioning, can be used to optimize running biomechanics.