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...
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.
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.,...
NeuroHealth | Postdoctoral Fellowship
Lead Researcher(s): Jiwon Yeon
It is more common nowadays for people to have their own wearable devices to measure physiological signals like heart rate and respiration to keep track of physical diseases. However, monitoring decline in cognitive functions or development of neurodegenerative diseases, such as Parkinson’s (PD), is...
NeuroHealth | Neuro-AI Grant
Lead Researcher(s): Ada Poon
This team aims to revolutionize future stroke treatment both in clinics and at home by combining a brain-computer interface and augmented reality (AR) into a single rehabilitation platform.
NeuroHealth | Neuro-AI Grant
Lead Researcher(s): Zhenan Bao
This team aims to advance augmentative and alternative communication technology for people with communication disorders and enable new forms of human-computer interaction by combining novel materials science with modern machine learning.
