Monthly Archives: May 2025

Recently the Myers lab had the opportunity to celebrate Adriana Delagarza on her undergraduate graduation! Adriana joined the Myers lab as an undergraduate researcher in 2022 and was recognized as an Egleston Scholar at Columbia. Her project, focused on characterizing the shape of the cervix in the second trimester, has led to the creation of an extensive library of high fidelity patient-specific cervix models. These models will drive new discovery in the field of medical device research and development and help further our understanding of how to study pregnancy in-silico.

We loved having the opportunity to celebrate Adriana at the Expat and we wish her the best of luck as she starts her job working in Women’s Health R&D at Proctor in Gamble!

The Myers Lab is excited to congratulate Alicia Dagle on her successful doctoral defense! Alicia’s work focused on developing an AI model to analyze various ultrasounds and measure key features of the cervix. This allows measurements to be analyzed quickly and automatically, without a lengthy and tedious process by a medical expert. Alicia’s work has the potential to significantly impact how doctors care for pregnant mothers, by providing faster, more accurate ways to detect the risk of preterm birth. Congratulations Dr. Dagle! We can’t wait to see what you do next!

This spring, Professor Kristin Myers was elected to The American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering,
AIMBE “for pioneering contributions to women’s health engineering, the biomechanics of preterm birth, and clinical studies of the biomechanics of pregnancy.” In March, Dr. Myers travelled to Washington DC to for the Institute’s election of 163 new members of the AIMBE College of Fellows in recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in medical and biological engineering.

Election to the AIMBE College of Fellows is among the highest professional distinctions accorded to medical and biological engineers, comprised of the top two percent of engineers in these fields. With induction into AIMBE, Dr. Myers joins a prestigious community of engineers committed to using science for the greater good. 

Congratulations to all of our amazing undergraduate researchers who did an incredible job presenting their work for the semester! Daffny presented her work on MATLAB image cropping and data organization for the mouse project. Angela talked about various sensitivity studies to improve cervical aspiration FE simulations. Reema shared her work developing a classification model to mediate quality of transvaginal ultrasounds. Eden ‘s work focused on FE simulations of shear wave propagation in cervical tissue. Adriana presented her work focused on building high fidelity models of the cervix in the second trimester ! We are so impressed by all of your fantastic work!