Dr. Kathryn Davis and the Davis lab were highlighted in the Penn newsletter, Penn Today. The Davis lab’s research centers around utilizing both the advancing fields of invasive neurophysiology and neuroimaging to better localize epileptic networks in medication refractory epilepsy patients. Find the full article on Penn Today here.
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 … Read more
CNT co-Directors, Dr. Kate Davis and Dr. Flavia Vitale as well as PhD candidate Nicolette Driscoll will be speaking at the first annual PennHealthX Conference. Sat, Oct 3, 2020 … Read more
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 … Read more
Dr. Vitale has received the Linda Pechenik Montague Investigator Award. This prestigious award was created by the philanthropist Linda Pechenik Montague to recognize the most promising research faculty at the Perelman School of Medicine. In addition to the prestigious recognition, the award will provide $100,000 to support the research work of Dr. Vitale. Thanks to … Read more
Save the date: Tuesday, January 14, 2020 Beginning at 1pm, check in at 12:30pm Singh Center for Nanotechnology Galleria and Glandt Forum Please RSVP using the google form below: https://forms.gle/barGNBLuuhnfGXij7 The Symposium will feature: Graduate Student Research Talks Graduate Student Poster Session and Competition Refreshments and afternoon snack break Key Note Speaker: Jonathan M. Rothberg, Ph.D “Building … Read more
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 … Read more
Many of our own lab members attended and participated in the International Conference for Technology and Analysis of Seizures (ICTALS) in Exeter, UK. ICTALS 2019 aims to bring together neurologists, neuroscientists, researchers from quantitative disciplines and people with lived experience of epilepsy in order to work as a community to advance our understanding of epilepsy … Read more
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 … Read more