Affiliations
- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Department of Rehabilitation Medicine
- Department of Physiology & Biophysics
- Center for Neurotechnology
- Weill Neurohub
- UW Institute for Neuroengineering (UWIN)
- Program in Neuroscience
Coverage of our work
- Dr. Sarah Mondello is quoted in Science about a new study on spinal cord injury stimulation mechanisms (Nov. 9, 2022)
- Press release on Up-LIFT trial achieving positive top-line results (Sept. 13, 2022)
- Dr. Fatma Inanici presents to the Northwest Spinal Cord Injury Forum (Jan 26, 2022)
- Friends with Wheels Podcast episode discussing our spinal cord injury research (June, 2022)
- Popular Science article on how to dive safely – Chet Moritz is quoted (July 27, 2022)
- National Science Foundation Discovery Files Video featuring our spinal stimulation research (Feb. 2021)
- Wired article about our work stimulating the spinal cord to improve hand function for people with spinal cord injury (Jan 29, 2021).
- Innovation Origins feature on our spinal stimulation work and collaboration with ONWARD Medical (Feb. 2021)
- Philanthropy News Digest article introducing new Reeve Foundation CEO Maggie Goldberg who mentions and links to our work (Nov. 23, 2021)
- News articles highlighting our use of transcutaneous stimulation to improve hand function after spinal cord injury (January 2020): Medical Press, Mirage News
- Popular Mechanics article highlighting spinal stimulation study improving hand function (Jan. 13, 2021)
- National Science foundation ‘Discovery Files‘ syndicated radio blurb on our spinal stimulation project (January 28, 2021)
- NPR KUOW podcast ‘The Record with Bill Radke’ highlighting the Center for Neurotechnology’s Neuroethics research (2nd link down – Jan. 26, 2021).
- King5 TV news story about Joe Beatty’s experience in our spinal stimulation trial (Broadcast Nov. 14, 2018)
- Quoted in The New York Times, Newsweek, Scientific American, Forbes, Nature, Science News, and in a news story by Nature on breakthroughs in spinal cord injury treatment (2018-19)
- Discover Magazine article about paralysis research 10 years later (Aug. 2019)
- Research laboratory featured in an episode of BrainWorks TV in an educational program for children about brain computer interface and neural technology (2018)
- SCI Forum Podcast interviewed UW researcher Chet Moritz (2018)
- SCI Forum Podcast by study participant Jon Schlueter (2019)
- NIH SCI 2020 workshop presentation. Chet Moritz begins at 1:00 hour mark (Feb 13, 2019)
- Ilmtech Podcast with Usman Kahn on Neural Engineering (2019)
- Video of Presentation at Working 2 Walk meeting in Miami, Fl (Oct. 13, 2017)
- Video of presentation at the UW Electrical Engineering Research Colloquium (Feb. 23, 2016)
- Geekwire article covering our Center for Sensorimotor Neural Engineering renewal (Dec. 29, 2015)
- Video of Presentation at Working 2 Walk meeting in Seattle, WA (Oct. 17, 2014)
- Interview with American Academy of Audiology (Feb. 6, 2014)
- Video of Presentation at Working 2 Walk meeting in Boston, MA (Sept. 28, 2013)
- Seattle Times Blog describing new Brain-Computer-Spinal Interface Project (Sept. 24, 2013)
- Komo Health Works article describing Brain-Computer-Spinal Interface Project (Sept. 25, 2013)
- Video of presentation to Spinal Cord Injury Consumer Forum (Feb. 8, 2011)
- News & Views by Steve Scott in Nature Neuroscience 11, 1245-1246 (2008) [Journal] [PDF]
- Paper selected as one of the top scientific advances of 2008 by editors of Nature
- Recommended by Faculty of 1000 Biology
- Short video clip from interview on NBC Nightly News (Oct. 15, 2008)
- “Device revives paralyzed muscles in monkeys” [MSNBC]
- “New Technique Activates Brain Neurons to Move Paralyzed Limb” [US News & World Report]
- Interview on National Public Radio
- Nature Podcast interview
- “Mind power moves paralysed limbs” [BBC]
- Article in The Guardian
- “Single neuron power” + Comment on Jose Carmena’s PLoS article
- “Roving brain electrodes reverse paralysis in monkeys” [New Scientist]
- “Skip the Robotics: Paralyzed Limbs Come to Life with New Connection to Brain” [Scientific American]
- “Brain Training for Spinal Cord Injury” [WebMD/MedicineNet]
- Interview with the American Academy of Audiology