New Minds, New Horizons: Incoming NPC Fellows Share How T32 Funding Enables Cutting-edge Research
The Boston University Neurophotonics Center was recently awarded the T32 Grant, supported by the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The grant will provide select graduate students the funding necessary to pursue dedicated research under NPC faculty advisors. In the Neurophotonics Center’s early days, prior funding from the T32 grant allowed for five years of expansive […]
Matthew Simkulet Awarded NIH T32 Grant
With funding from the NIH’s T32 Program, Matthew Simkulet will continue his work with Assistant Professor Tim O’Shea studying neurological responses to implanted devices. Matthew will investigate microprisms implanted in mouse cortexes using two-photon microscopy in order to examine the brain’s natural wound response to implanted devices. Matthew hopes specifically to look into the fundamental […]
Gabrielle Magalhães Ulloa Awarded NIH T32 Grant
With funding from NIH’s T32 grant, Gabrielle Magalhães Ulloa will continue her work studying the prelimbic system’s role in affective learning and decision making in adolescent rodents. While the role of the prefrontal cortex has been established by prior research, Gabrielle hopes to examine adolescent rodents specifically in order to better understand age differences in […]
Courtney Aul Awarded NIH T32 Grant
With funding from NIH’s T32 grant, Courtney Aul will continue her work with Professor Alice Cronin-Golomb studying the association between cognition and motor function in Parkinson’s patients. While previous research has established a correlation between gait and attention in patients with Parkinson’s, Courtney’s research seeks to examine this relationship further, and determine whether or not […]
Hadi Nia and Tim O’Shea Published in PNAS Nexus April Issue
This April, Center faculty members Hadi Nia and Tim O’Shea published “Alteration of mechanical stresses in the murine brain by age and hemorrhagic stroke” in the PNAS Nexus journal. Their research works towards a better understanding of residual mechanical stresses in the brain. Also known as solid stresses, mechanical stresses develop when brain tissues grow […]
BU’s Core Organoid Research Spans CRC & MED Campuses to Restore Organ Function
By Danny Giancioppo and Jack Osmond | Photos Supplied by Martin Thunemann, Ella Zeldich, and Ben Wolozin Organoids are a growing trend in biomedical research fields internationally––but what are they? As the name suggests, it’s a simplified model of an organ made up of cells, studied both in vitro (outside a living organism) and in […]
Tianyu Wang: A Bright New Light
Tianyu Wang was welcomed to the College of Electrical and Computer Engineering in a recent profile on the College of Engineering’s website.
Mark Howe, Ian Davidson, and David Boas publish article in ScienceDirect
Mai-Anh T. Vu, a Post-Doc researcher in Mark Howe’s lab, shared a recent article from Howe’s lab on X this Monday. The article, titled “Targeted micro-fiber arrays for measuring and manipulating localized multi-scale neural dynamics over large, deep brain volumes during behavior”, was published by Ian Davidson, David Boas, and Mark Howe in ScienceDirect. The […]
Ji-Xin Cheng and Team Featured in Chemical & Engineering News
Cheng et. al were featured in “Microscopy method maps chemistry, not just chemicals”.
Hadi T. Nia and Team Publish Back-to-Back Articles
Hadi T. Nia, Junior Faculty member at the Neurophotonics and Photonics Centers, announced today that his team had two articles published back-to-back in ScienceDirect. The first article, “Multiscale elasticity mapping of biological samples in 3D at optical resolution”, published by Kathryn Regas et. al, presents a new platform: “µElastography,” a “scalable elastography system that maps […]