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.
NPC Fellow Sudan Duwadi Wins CAN DO Award to Decode Attended Location Using fNIRS
Congratulations to 2023 CAN DO awardee Sudan Duwadi! Thanks to funding from the CAN DO award, Neurophotonics Center fellow and graduate student Sudan Duwadi will be working in collaboration with Professor Kamal Sen, as well as the fNIRS core of the NPC, on “Decoding Attended Location using fNIRS.” The project aims to use fNIRS measurements […]
Kamal Sen Receives $2.96M NSF Award
Professor Kamal Sen, Associate BME professor and Director of the Natural Sounds and Neural Coding Laboratory, was recently granted an NSF Award of $2.96 million for the Integrative Strategies for Understanding Neural and Cognitive Systems (NCS) funding opportunity. Sen, serving as principal investigator, has advanced the study of complex scene analysis (CSA) in the hopes […]
Professors Jerry Chen and Louis Awad Awarded Tenure
Professors Chen and Awad, alongside 23 other BU faculty, have been awarded with tenure following the end of the 2022–2023 academic year.
Abdoulaye Ndao Wins Beckman Foundation Award
This year’s award offers $600,000 in funding over four years to each researcher. Congrats Professor Ndao!
Professors Economo, Nia, and more NSF Grant Winners
The National Science Foundation CAREER award winners will advance research and expand educational opportunities for underrepresented groups in science
Professors Economo and O’Shea Win Dean’s Catalyst Award & Collaborative Award for Neurophotonics Devel-Opment (CAN-DO)
Biomedical engineering professors Michael Economo and Tim O’Shea have been awarded both the BU College of Engineering’s Dean’s Catalyst Award and the Collaborative Award for Neurophotonics Devel-Opment (CAN-DO) in response to their united effort to produce longer-lasting neuroengineering devices. “A huge problem in neuroengineering is that devices implanted in the brain eventually become encapsulated by […]
NIH R01 awarded to advance a “Computational Miniature Mesoscope”
Congratulations to Professor Lei Tian and his co-investigators Ian Davison and David Boas for being awarded a 5-year NIH R01 titled “Computational Miniature Mesoscope for Cortex-wide, Cellular resolution Ca2+ Imaging in Freely Behaving Mice.” This award evolved from the early days of the BU miniature microscope designed to measure brain function in freely moving and […]
2021 NPC Seed Award Recipients
The Neurophotonics Center solicits proposals for the support of innovative interdisciplinary research among NPC Faculty members and their teams. The purpose of this Seed Program is to foster research that leverages state-of-the-art optical imaging tools and serves as a testbed for novel technological developments in the field of neurophotonics.A goal of this Seed program is […]