Category: Trainees

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 […]

NPC Fellow Kate Herrema to Advance Cortical Organoid Study with CAN DO Award

Congratulations to Kate Herrema, NPC CAN DO awardee 2024! With funding from the Neurophotonics Center’s CAN-DO award, graduate student Kate Herrema will advance her thesis project on combining biomaterials, neurorecording devices, stem cell technology and in vivo imaging to guide the development of human cortical organoids transplanted in the mouse brain. Working with faculty from across […]

Congratulations to NPC trainee Patrick Doran for receiving an NIH F31 Fellowship

Simultaneous optical voltage imaging and fMRI in behaving mice  Congratulations to Patrick Doran for receiving an NIH F31 fellowship for his project “Simultaneous optical voltage imaging and fMRI in behaving mice.” Patrick is a BU BME PhD Student and NPC trainee working with NPC Faculty member Professor Anna Devor’s group. The abstract of his work follows: […]