Our Team – Neural Injury Biomechanics Laboratory

Dr. Anita Singh, PhD

Anita Singh, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor at the Bioengineering Department at Temple University, Philadelphia, PA. She earned her Ph.D. from Wayne State University, Detroit, in Biomedical Engineering. She then completed her postdoctoral fellowship at the Lankenau Hospital, Philadelphia, and worked as a Research Associate and the co-Director of Behavior and Biomechanics Core at Drexel University, College of Medicine. She also has industrial experience in a medical device company. Her research has focused on developing a new model of traumatic axonal injury that offers the possibility of improving the understanding of white matter tract damage in the brain during and after a traumatic event. Another area of her research includes investigating a new combinatorial treatment strategy using bioengineered scaffolds and a robotic training paradigm in spinally contused and transected rats. She is currently involved in understanding the biomechanical, functional, and structural injury thresholds for neonatal brachial plexus palsy. Her work has been published in several journals, including the Journal of Biomechanics, Brain Injury, and Journal of Neurotrauma, and she has presented and received awards at national and international conferences. She is also a recipient of the prestigious NIH R01 and NSF-CAREER awards and has additional funding from several foundations and the Department of Defense.