The CNT has been lucky enough to work with many talented undergraduates this past Summer through the Center for Undergraduate Research and Fellowship Program.

The Fall 2020 CURF Research Expo gave all students the opportunity to showcase their projects, links to their presentations are below.

Sofia Mouchtaris – Bioengineering, class of 2023                                                                                                                                     Impact of RNS Volume Conduction at the Seizure Onset Zone

Ramya Muthukrishnan – Computer Science, class of 2022                                                                                                                     Automated Segmentation of Postoperative Epilepsy Imaging

Ellie Chen – Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, class of 2022.                                                                                         3T to Low-field MRI Scan Transformation using GANs

Kevin Mathew – Finance, Behavioral Economics and Computer Science, class of 2023

Lena Armstrong – Cognitive Science and Computer Science, class of 2023                                                                                       Machine learning of EEG to help diagnose epilepsy: predicting functional connectivity from structural connectivity

Jessica Ling – Bioengineering, class of 2023

Applications are NOW OPEN for Dr. Litt’s NIH Neuroengineering and Medicine T32 Training Grant.

To begin your application complete this form.

Goal: to train predoctoral engineering students and physician postdoctoral fellows in neuroengineering and its clinical translation, including device development, neuro-stimulation, machine learning, algorithm development, cloud computing, nanotechnology, and materials science

Funding: covers stipend, tuition, travel and research supplies for 1-2 years

• Predoctoral trainees: Engineering PhD students who have completed their course work
• Postdoctoral trainees: MD clinical fellows (preferably)
• Trainees must be US citizens or resident aliens (green card holders)

Applications due by Sunday, December 15, 2019 at 11:59 pm

To begin your application complete this form.

Research proposal presentations to the T32 review panel will take place Wednesday, January 8, 2020

More Information: on the Litt Lab website under Education & Outreach and on the CNT website.

For questions email Everett Prince at eprince@seas.upenn.edu

Dr. Vitale has received the Interdisciplinary Rehabilitation Engineering Career Development Award (IREK12). This award will support her on wearable EMG sensors to study fundamental mechanisms involved in neuromuscular disorders and support targeted rehabilitation strategies.

The Interdisciplinary Rehabilitation Engineering Research Career Development Program (IREK12) in Movement and Rehabilitation Sciences (MRS) recruits and trains scholars with engineering and other quantitative backgrounds to become successful rehabilitation scientists in basic, translational and/or clinical research.

To read more about the program: https://irek12.org

To learn more about the Vitale Lab: https://vitalelab.med.upenn.edu/

The 2019 Mahoney Institute for Neurosciences (MINS) Year of Brain Science Technology Student Kick-Off Symposium will take place Friday, September 13th from 1pm-6pm. Ph.D. students Nicolette Driscoll and Brendan Murphy helped coordinate this event as members of the MINS Year of Brain Science Technology Student Committee.

Among a number of speakers are lab members Nicolette Driscoll and Robert Pierson.

Nicolette Driscoll – “Carbon Nanomaterial for Neural Interfaces”

Robert Pierson – “Automatic Classification of Huntington’s Disease Severity Using a Wearable Device”

Dr. Brian Litt has been invited to speak at Penn’s Neurosurgery Grand Rounds on Thursday, August 15th. He will give a talk titled “Neuroengineering Collaboration in the CNT: Hardware, Software, and Wetware.”

Grand Rounds will take place at 7am-8am in the Smilow Research Center.

Penn Health-Tech and the Penn Medicine Center for Health Care Innovation invite faculty and staff from the University of Pennsylvania, Penn Medicine, and Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) to submit proposals for pilot funding by September 23, 2019 at 5pm. The goal of this funding is to support the development of medical device and health technology projects that address important unmet medical needs. Proposals that cross departments and schools and promote sharing expertise are strongly encouraged.

Selected proposals will receive

• Pilot funding: From $5,000 up to $50,000
• Mentorship and project support: Advisors will help you refine your design, build partnerships and work towards achieving proof of concept
• Access to experts

HOW TO APPLY

1. Create a SurveyMonkey account using your University of Pennsylvania, Penn Medicine, or Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia email address.
2. Verify your email address.
3. Fill out the application in its entirety. To preview a sample application, click here.
4. Submit your application by 5 PM on Monday, September 23.

From June 22-26, the International League Against Epilepsy (ILAE) will hold its major biennial event in Bangkok, Thailand. Dr. Davis’s lecture will be given as part of the XV Workshop on Neurobiology of Epilepsy (WONEOP). The major topic of WONOEP XV will be to discuss working definitions and classification schemes for epileptic seizures across the lifespan, improve methods of seizure recognition, detection, and classification and facilitate translation across species.

To read more about the event, click here.

Congratulations to the Class of 2019 Graduates!

Bioengineering Master’s Students

Arjun Shankar

Christopher Painter

Placid Unegbu

Matthew Zimpfer

Bioengineering Undergraduates

Kayla Prezelski

Theodore Wang