NSF award boosts Buneo’s bioengineering research

Research aimed at understanding how the brain combines different forms of sensory information to help plan and modify our physical movements will be supported by a National Science Foundation (NSF) Career Award recently won by Christopher Buneo, an assistant professor in the Harrington Department of Bioengineering in ASU’s Ira A. Fulton School of Engineering. Read more»

Dr. Stephen Helms Tillery recently received an RO1 funding grant

Dr. Stephen Helms Tillery, an assistant professor in the Harrington Department of Bioengineering, recently received an RO1 funding grant from the National Institutes of Health to study fundamental aspects of how the nervous system will interact with prosthetic systems.  Dr. Tillery’s research is directed towards helping people who have lost or who have difficulty with control of their limbs.  The researchers in the Tillery laboratory include several ASU undergraduate and graduate bioengineering students.  They are trying to build on recent improvements in our knowledge of signal processing by the brain and on increases in computational power of computers.  Dr. Tillery hopes to create computer systems that, once interfaced to the nervous system, can be used by subjects to perform a variety of tasks.  The aim of their recently NIH funded research is to take advantage of learning and adaptability in the nervous system in designing future applications for neuroprosthetic controllers. 

Nathan Jackson has been awarded 1st place for the Best Sudent Research Poster

Nathan Jackson, a doctoral student in the Harrington Department of Bioengineering, has been awarded 1st place for the Best Student Research Poster by the International Microelectronics and Packaging Society (IMAPS). IMAPS is the leading international microelectronics and electronic packaging society with professional members in 23 North American chapters and 21 international chapters. Jackson's research focuses on a study targeted to monitor neural activity in the brain titled "Novel Flexible Interconnect and Packaging for MEMS-based Movable Brain Probes."

Nathan also recently received the IEEE EMBS Travel Award at the 3rd International Conference on Neural engineering of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society for his presentation: "Long-term cortical recordings with microactuated microelectrodes." 

Sonya Seif-Naraghi has been awarded a prestigious NSF Graduate Fellowship

Sonya Seif-Naraghi who graduated from the Ira A. Fulton School of Engineering and the Barrett Honors College in May of 2008 with a bachelor of science in engineering has been awarded a prestigious NSF Graduate Fellowship.  This fellowship will support Ms. Seif-Naraghi’s doctoral work in bioengineering at the University of California at San Diego.  The purpose of the National Science Foundation's Graduate Research Fellowship Program is to ensure the vitality of the human resource base of science and engineering in the United States and to reinforce its diversity. The program recognizes and supports outstanding graduate students in the relevant science, technology, engineering, and mathematics disciplines who are pursuing research-based Master's and doctoral degrees, including women in engineering and computer and information science.

Christine Zwart has been awarded a prestigious NSF Graduate Fellowship

Christine Zwart , a doctoral student in the Harrington Department of Bioengineering, who graduated from the Ira A. Fulton School of Engineering in May of 2007 has been awarded a National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship for the 2008. Christine is pursuing her doctoral work in bioengineering at ASU in the Harrington Department of Bioengineering where she intends to do her dissertation research on modeling deep brain stimulation for the treatment of Parkinson's disease. Her previous awards include a Science Foundation of Arizona Fellowship and the National Merit scholarship. While an undergraduate at ASU, Christine did research on magnetic resonance imaging at the Keller Center for Imaging Innovation at Barrow Neurological Institute.