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Nicolette Driscoll (Nicki) made 2 important presentations in the fall of 2017. She presented “Transparent graphene electrodes for chronic in vivo optical and electrophysiological recording” at the 2017 Biomedical Engineering Society Conference in Phoenix, October 2017 (featured in accompanying photo). Nicki’s work on “2D Ti3C2 MXenes for high-resolution neural interfaces” was selected for oral presentation at the Symposium on Materials Design for Neural … Read more

The Penn Health-Tech Center for Health, Devices, and Technology, a project that launched in May 2017, hopes to unite Penn’s strengths in medicine, engineering, business, and education to connect researchers across disciplines and provide a starting point for the creation of technologies that address urgent health care needs. As Carolyn Wilkinson, associate director of Penn’s Translational Neuroengineering Laboratory, who has been … Read more

Timothy H. Lucas, II, MD, PhD, assistant professor of Neurosurgery (also director of the Translational Neuromodulation Lab in the Perelman School of Medicine and co-director of the CNT) has been awarded the 2017 Fellow in Leadership Award by Alpha Omega Alpha national medical honor society. This fellowship is awarded to three mid-career physicians nationwide who exhibit outstanding … Read more

CNT Co-Director Flavia Vitale, P.h.D, has been awarded the CURE Taking Flight Award for “a tunable, controllable microarray for mapping epileptic brain networks”. Dr. Flavia Vitale has developed a new class of very small, flexible electrodes that can be independently controlled after they are implanted, allowing surgeons to safely map epileptic networks in the brain with high … Read more

Bioengineering PhD student Nicolette Driscoll has been awarded a 2017 National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) Fellowship. The GRFP Fellowship recognizes and supports outstanding graduate students in NSF-supported science, technology, engineering, and mathematics disciplines who are pursuing research-based Master’s and doctoral degrees.

CNT collaborator Dr. Kacy Cullen, has been featured in Penn Medicine News. Dr. Cullen and his team have been working to grow replacement connections, referred to as micro-tissue engineered neural networks (micro-TENNS), in the lab and test their ability to “wire-in” to replace broken axon pathways when implanted in the brain. Read the full article … Read more

CNT founder Dr. Brian Litt’s work on dissolvable silicon electronics along with Dr. John A. Rogers, a material scientist from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has been featured in Penn Medicine News. The focus of the project is thin, flexible neural electrode arrays with fully bioresorbable construction based on patterned silicon nanomembranes (Si NMs) … Read more

On May 2, 2017, the University of Pennsylvania will celebrate the launch of the Penn Center for Health, Devices and Technology, or Penn Health-Tech, a University-wide effort to advance Penn’s world-class breakthroughs into new devices and health technologies to meet the world’s most pressing health care needs. Marking the opening of the Center, the University … Read more

CNT members Danielle Bassett, PhD, Brian Litt, MD and Ankit Khambati, PhD were featured in the Penn News for their Research Using Network Science to Help Pinpoint Source of Seizures: Read the full article here

The American Epilepsy Society (AES) announced that CNT founder, clinician, and professor, Brian Litt, M.D., is being honored with the AES Research Recognition Award for Clinical Science on December 7, 2015, at the Society’s 69th annual meeting in Philadelphia. Read the full article here