October 2017: Janak, Kaitlynn, and Nick represent the NPR Lab at BMES in Phoenix
Thank you to Janak Gaire, Kaitlynn Olczak, and Nick Hilborn for representing the NPR Lab with their talks and presentations at BMES this year!
June 2017: Dr. Matthew McDermott successfully defended his dissertation.
Congratulations to Dr. Matthew McDermott for successfully defending his dissertation!
May 2017: IMEC news announcement on IMPRESS probes.
Credit: IMEC
World’s first thin-silicon implantable chip for high-precision haptic prosthetics.
https://phys.org/news/2017-05-world-thin-silicon-implantable-chip-high-precision.html
May 2017: Congratulations to Heui, Janak, and Seth for getting a publication in the Journal of Neural Engineering!
Histological evaluation of flexible neural implants; flexibility limit for reducing the tissue response?
Heui Chang Lee, Fredrik Ejserholm, Janak Gaire, Seth Currlin, Jens Schouenborg,Lars Wallman, Martin Bengtsson, Kinam Park, and Kevin J Otto
Published 4 May 2017 • © 2017 IOP Publishing Ltd
February 2017: Dr. Kevin Otto awarded NIH grant focusing on micro-coil implants for cortical activation.
This month we congratulate Dr. Otto on being awarded an NIH Grant in collaboration with Massachusetts General Hospital, Palo Alto Research Center that focuses on cortical activation via the implantation of micro-coils.
November 2016: NPR Lab presenting at Neuroscience 2016 in San Diego.
The NPR Lab is proud to have Janak Gaire presenting his research at Neuroscience 2016 in San Diego this week. Janak’s poster showed data on a transgenic mouse expressing fluorophores in neurons, microglia, astrocytes, and oligodendrocytes.
October 2016: NPR Lab presenting at BMES in Minneapolis.
The NPR Lab is proud to have Janak Gaire and Matthew McDermott representing us at the 2016 BMES Annual Meeting in Minneapolis this week. Janak will be giving a talk on a novel mouse model expressing endogenous fluorophores while Matthew will be presenting a poster on drug release of coated neural devices.
August 2016: NPR lab presents research at the 8th International IEEE EMBS Neural Engineering Conference in Orlando, Florida.
Dr. Kevin Otto (center-left) and members of his lab attended the 8th International IEEE EMBS Neural Engineering Conference in Orlando, Florida to present research on neural prosthetic interfaces. Graduate student Matthew McDermott gave an oral presentation (center-right and bottom left) titled, “The Effect of Multiple Thin-Film Coatings of Protein Loaded Sol-Gel on Total Multi-Electrode Array Thickness.” Graduate student Heui Chang Lee (3rd from center on right) gave a poster presentation titled, “Quantitative Histological Assessment of Probe Flexibility.” Post-Doc Dr. James Graham (4th from center on right, and bottom right) presented a poster and oral presentation titled, “Histological Evaluation of Implanted Tissue-Engineered Electronic Nerve Interface (TEENI) Devices.”
