DOD Awards Steve Ramirez and Team Funding for Memory-Related Research
Lou Awad Wins BU Ignition Award
Hariri Institute Faculty Affiliates Lou Awad, Vijaya Kolachalama, and Hank Fien won BU Technology Development’s 2023 Ignition Awards. These awards, given by BU Technology Development, are designed to accelerate the advancement of promising new science and technology.
Kilachand Fund Awards Go to Crystal Rib Cage and Brain Connection Projects
Professors Hadi T. Nia and Mike Economo were among the two research teams to have won the 2023 interdisciplinary research fund grants, and aim to improve study of lung disease and brain development.
Regina Sloutsky awarded NPC Collaborative Project Award for exoWALK
Thanks to funding from the NPC Collaborative Project Award, Regina Sloutsky, research physical therapist and second year Rehabilitation Sciences PhD student, will continue work with NPC Faculty on the project “exoWALK: EXOsuit-assisted Walking Automaticity and Locomotion Kinetics.” exoWALK is a lightweight wearable robotic exosuit designed to assist stroke patients in walking. After having a stroke, […]
David Boas and Team Awarded NIH BRAIN CONNECT Funding
As one of 11 grants, with a total support cost of $150 million, Professor Boas et al. will utilize their portion of the funding for their research on “Mapping Connectivity of the Human Brainstem in a Nuclear Coordinate System” Read more here: https://www.ninds.nih.gov/news-events/highlights-announcements/nih-brain-initiative-launches-projects-develop-innovative-technologies-map-brain-incredible-detail Project Abstract: The ~1 billion neurons that form the human brainstem are […]
Steve Ramirez Included in 100 LatinX Leaders for Hispanic Heritage Month
Professor Ramirez has been named as one of several LatinX leaders in Massachusetts as a part of AmplifyLatinX’s inaugural ALX 100 award reception.
Jiabei Zhu of Tian’s Group Wins OPTICA Student Paper Competition – 3D Imaging Sub-Division
Another student within Lei Tian’s research group, Jiabei Zhu, has been awarded the win for OPTICA’s Student Paper Award, this time in the field of “3D Imaging Acquisition and Display: Technology, Perception and Applications (3D)” Zhu’s paper, “3D Phase Imaging from Intensity Measurements with Non-Paraxial Multiple Scattering Model” stood out among four potential candidates from top […]
Hao Wang of the Tian Group Wins OPTICA Student Paper Award
Following up the several BU graduate students to be named as finalists in OPTICA’s recent Student Paper Award, Hao Wang of Lei Tian’s research group has won for the paper “Wide-field, high-resolution reflection-mode Fourier ptychographic microscopy.”
Xiaojun Cheng Wins $2.7 million 5-year NIH BRAIN Initiative Grant
Assistant Professor Xiaojun Cheng was the lead PI in this project on “A transformative method for functional brain imaging with Speckle Contrast Optical Spectroscopy,” with co-PI David Boas. Abstract: Advances in non-invasive monitoring of human brain function under normal and pathological conditions will lead to breakthroughs in our understanding of the brain in health and […]
Lei Tian’s Team Granted Scialog Award for Advanced Bioimaging
Professor Lei Tian’s team was among nine teams recently awarded a collective $1 million in funding as an initiative aiming to catalyze advances in imaging technologies.