Neural Engineering, Rehabilitation, Augmentation
Description
- New devices for neural study & manipulation
- New computational architectures based on neural algorithms
- Better haptic & human-computer-machine interfaces
- Systems for rehabilitation & augmentation
- Better prosthetics & robots
Core Faculty
Eric H. Chudler. Parkinson’s disease, pain, science education and outreach.
Albert Folch. Microfluidic cell culture tools for quantitative neurobiology studies, with a focus on axon guidance and synaptogenesis; BioMEMS.
Suzie Pun. Development of polymeric drug and gene delivery vehicles. Incorporation of delivery systems with scaffolds, matrices and implant surfaces for tissue engineering applications.
Buddy Ratner. The Ratner group engineers biomaterial surfaces to control biological interactions, synthesized, characterized and observed during interaction with biological systems.
Jay Rubinstein. Computational biophysics; clinical and basic electrophysiology; human psychophysics; clinical trials of new cochlear implant technology.
Joan Sanders. The Sander’s group tissue engineers of vessel substitutes, heart valves, and vascular plexus.
Adjunct Faculty
Randal P. Ching. Musculoskeletal biomechanics for injury research and improved clinical outcomes.
Kevin E. Conley. In vivo muscle metabolism and energetics; magnetic resonance spectroscopy; muscle structure and function; muscle physiology; exercise physiology.
Howard Chizeck. Control engineering theory and the application of control engineering to biomedical problems and biologically-inspired engineered systems; closed loop drug delivery; neural prostheses, functional electrical stimulation; robotic surgery; multi-scale modelling.
Thomas Daniel. Implantable microelectronics, dynamics of muscle contraction.
Stephen Hauschka. Skeletal and cardiac muscle biology.
Blake Hannaford. Neural control of movement; robotics; human-machine interaction; telerobotics.
Frederick A. Matsen III. Shoulder and elbow kinematics; pathobiology.
Yoky Matsuoka. Robotics; brain-machine interface.
