At the 2024 Conference, the BANDs team won the $10,000 Award for their project “Advancing Neurodegenerative Disease (ND) Management: Sensor-Based Risk Profiling and Disease Progression Monitoring” that proposes in-sole wearable sensors that track risk factors (e.g., physical activity, sleep, cytokine levels) and disease progression (e.g., dyskinesia, tremors, rigidity, gait abnormalities) for conditions like Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s. From left to right, Rodney Bowersox, Deputy Director, Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station; Fatemeh (Azi) Tabei from West Texas A&M University; Rhett Rigby from Texas Woman’s University-Denton; Principal Investigator Ngozi Mbue from Texas Woman’s University-Houston; Karen N. Williams from Del Mar College; and Joseph N. Dunn, Assistant Vice Chancellor and Chief Financial Officer, TEES.
During the Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (TEES) Annual Research Conference, TEES regional division representatives join to expand research capabilities. At the end of each conference, these representatives propose research collaborations that compete for funding.
Collaboration Awards
See our research collaboration awards by year.
