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 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 […]

Devor Awarded a New NIH BRAIN Initiative grant to study cell-type-specific mechanisms of Patterned Sensory Stimulation (PSS)

Congratulations to NPC Professor Anna Devor and her collaborators Anton Arkhipov at the Allen Brain Institute and Li-Huei Tsai at MIT for receiving an NIH BRAIN Initiative award R01NS122742 to study cell-type-specific mechanisms of Patterned Sensory Stimulation (PSS)! PSS is a non-invasive technique for manipulating brain activity and states, employing, for example, periodic visual or […]