Funded Research Projects
NeuroHealth | Neuroscience:Translate
This team will use their Neuroscience:Translate award to develop a large-scale bi-directional neural interface that will restore high-fidelity vision to people blinded by retinal degeneration.
NeuroHealth | Neuroscience:Translate
Lead Researcher(s): Jin Billy Li, Birgitt Schuele
This team will use their Neuroscience:Translate award to employ a novel therapeutic technique to correct pathogenic mutations causing Parkinson’s disease.
NeuroHealth | Neuroscience:Translate
This team will use their Neuroscience:Translate award to develop the first wearable ultrasound (US) device for the treatment of inflammatory diseases, such as Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) and Inflammatory Bowel Disease.
NeuroHealth | Neuroscience:Translate
Lead Researcher(s): Renee Zhao, Jeremy J. Heit, MD, PhD
This team will use their Neuroscience:Translate award to develop an entirely new class of ischemic stroke treatment device that will lead to improved clot extraction to improve the success of endovascular thrombectomy.
NeuroHealth | Knight Postdoctoral Fellowship
Lead Researcher(s): Daniela Rojo Capitanio
The causes of neurodegenerative disorders like multiple sclerosis or Alzheimer’s disease are incompletely understood, hindering our ability to gain precise diagnoses and design effective therapeutics. Understanding how the circadian rhythms regulate myelin-forming precursors will impart unique...
NeuroDiscovery | Knight Postdoctoral Fellowship
Lead Researcher(s): Yi Zeng
With an aging population, neurodegenerative disorders contribute increasingly to our global health burden with no cure or effective treatments. Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and frontotemporal dementia (FTD) are two neurodegenerative disorders that are distinct in clinical presentation (ALS...
NeuroEngineering | Postdoctoral Fellowship
Lead Researcher(s): David Zoltowski
Brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) are systems that enable using neural activity to control and interact with external devices. For people who lose the ability to move or speak due to injury or disease, BCIs provide a potential avenue to restore this loss of function.
NeuroHealth | Postdoctoral Fellowship
Lead Researcher(s): Amy Nippert
While acute pain is an important biological signal in response to injured tissue, chronic pain occurs when the pain signaling outlasts the initial injury and has deleterious effects on health and quality of life. Chronic pain represents an enormous public health burden with few therapeutic options.
NeuroDiscovery | Knight Postdoctoral Fellowship
Lead Researcher(s): Takeshi Uenaka
There is one characteristic of all neurodegenerative diseases: the accumulation and aggregation of abnormal proteins in the patient’s brain. These aggregations are thought to induce neuronal cell death and brain degeneration.
NeuroHealth | Knight Postdoctoral Fellowship
Lead Researcher(s): Ravi Nath
Sleep is a critical behavioral state that fulfills essential needs for health, including clearing waste products (e.g., protein aggregates) from the brain. But sleep is not everlasting. As humans age, sleep quality strikingly deteriorates, and this decline is associated with dementias (e.g.,...
