Brian Litt, MD and the Neuroscience School of Advanced Studies (NSAS) will be hosting a 5-day workshop ‘Epilepsy: Advanced Technology for Clinicians’ on the Island of San Servolo in Venice, Italy from October 5-10, 2018. In this workshop, world clinician-experts in engineering, neuroscience and clinical neurology present the latest tools for state-of-the-art epilepsy care and present … Read more
Dr. Brian Litt has been invited as keynote speaker to the 2018 Gordon Research Seminar ‘Insights Into Mechanisms and Therapies for Epilepsy’ in West Dover, Vermont. The topic of this year’s Keynote Session is “Translating New Technology in Epilepsy” and Dr. Litt’s talk is titled “Network Models to Guide Epilepsy Surgery”. For more information on the GRS: https://www.grc.org/mechanisms-of-epilepsy-and-neuronal-synchronization-grs-conference/2018/
Dr. Flavia Vitale has been awarded the McCabe Fellow Award on July 13, 2018. The McCabe awards were established in 1969 by a generous gift from Mr. Thomas B. McCabe and Mrs. Jeannette E. Laws McCabe to the Perelman School of Medicine (PSOM). The purpose of this gift is to support junior faculty who initiate … Read more
Applications are now being accepted by Penn Health-Tech and the Penn Medicine Center for Health Care Innovation for funding to support medical device development projects that address unmet clinical needs. Possible project proposals may include: Neurodevices: monitoring and therapeutics Delivery platforms: drug and gene therapy Connected health: sensors, AI/ML, devices, and systems Projects that cross departments, … Read more
CNT Co-Director Dr. Flavia Vitale has been appointed as Assistant Professor within the Department of Neurology and the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (PMR) at The University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Vitale’s research is focused on nanofabrication and development of novel bioelectronic devices for recording and neuromodulation in the brain.
Dr. Shawniqua Williams has accepted a position as Assistant Professor in the Department of Neurology at Vanderbilt University. She will also be joining the ICU Delirium and Cognitive Impairment Study Group. Visit the Vanderbilt Department of Neurology website : https://ww2.mc.vanderbilt.edu/neurology/ Visit the ICU Delirium and Cognitive Impairment Study Group website : http://www.icudelirium.org/
Bioengineering PhD student Brendan Murphy has been awarded a 2018 National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) Fellowship. The GRFP promotes vitality and diversity in the scientific and engineering workforce by recognizing and supporting outstanding graduate students who are pursuing research-based master’s and doctoral degrees.
Dr. Kathryn Davis, co-director of the CNT was awarded the Dreifuss-Penry Epilepsy Award at the 2018 American Academy of Neurology’s Annual Meeting. The award recognizes physician-scientists in the early stages of their career for their contribution to epilepsy research.
Epilepsy Instructor Dr. Shawniqua Williams was selected for a Dynamic Poster presentation at the Society for Neuroscience Meeting in Washington DC, held in November 2017. She presented her work: “Spatiotemporal neuronal activation patterns associated with self-paced verbal fluency utterances” (photo featured).
Flavia Vitale and Dr. Samantha Santacruz (UC Berkeley) organized and co-chaired a Mini-symposium on Innovative Approaches for Multimodal Neural Interfaces at the 2017 Society for Neuroscience Meeting in Washington DC. Flavia also presented her talk entitled, “Fluidic microdrives for minimal invasive implantation of flexible neural microelectrodes.”