Dr. Ludwig Is On Our Summer Reading List
Sally Adee’s new book “We Are Electric: inside the 200 year hunt for our body’s bioelectric code, and what the future holds” (published Spring 2023) lives up to it’s title; and from a purely narcissistic …
March 31, 2023
Achieving Scientific Rigor the WITNe Way
WITNe co-director, Dr. Kip Ludwig, was featured on the SfN website with an article regarding the challenges and joys of building a lab culture of continual improvement. In the WITNe labs Dr. Ludwig emphasizes diversity …
March 31, 2023
Better living through wireless brain technologies!
Suyash Bhatt and Emily Masterson, et al., have taken wireless to the next level. Through their published paper Wireless in vivo recording of cortical activity by an ion-sensitive field effect transistor they were able to …
March 5, 2023
Dr. Verma crosses the finish line
In his tenure at WITNe Dr. Nishant Verma’s tenacity and drive has led to him graduating with his PhD in less than 4 years. He accomplished more in his short time here than could have …
December 22, 2022Rex Chin-Hao Chen 2022 Cool Science Image Winner!
Rex Chin-Hao Chen - Cool Science Image Award Winner!
November 23, 2022NeuroOne Hits Wall Street
WITNe Co-Director Dr. Justin Williams rang in the Nasdaq with his company NeuroOne
November 23, 2022Optomized Electrode Placement Leads to Stimulating Results
Years of work to characterize side effects by Blanz Et al. culminates in 'Spatially selective stimulation of the pig vagus nerve to modulate target effect versus side effect'
May 20, 2022Dr. Settell wins big!
Dr. Megan Settell was recently awarded the Grainger Distinguished Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Engineering. Megan is a leader in WITNe, paving the way for other talented women in STEM. She exemplifies what WITNe is all …
October 5, 2021Dr. Ludwig – Podcast Celebrity
Co-director of WITNe, Dr. Kip Ludwig strikes again with this compelling look at the Neurotech industry. As an expert in both industry and academia Dr. Ludwig is able to speak to Neurotech in a …
October 5, 2021WITNe Students – Setting the Bar High
WITNe always strives for excellence, but wow, our undergrads are making us look good! Tsani Rogers, an undergraduate researcher in Dr. Aviad Hai’s lab , is a native of Anguilla and has won both the …
June 10, 2021
The Injectrode: Changing the Business Case for Spinal Cord Stim to Treat Pain
The Injectrode: Changing the Business Case for Spinal Cord Stimulation to Treat Pain (link takes you to YouTube) Non-invasive transcutaneous electrical stimulation (TES) therapies seek to directly manipulate neural activity to address disease. TES devices …
May 24, 2021
Quality of Evidence: an aVNS review
During the covid crisis graduate student Nishant Verma spearheaded a rainy day project. He took his passion for auricular vagus nerve stimulation (one of many passions) and applied it to some quality control. Not only …
April 30, 2021
10th Anniversary of Brain Twitter
Ten years ago investigators at UW made headlines by showing that it was possible to send messages over the internet just by thinking about them. UW Madison, and WITNe Co-Director Justin Williams were recognized by …
March 22, 2021Battle of the Bias
Continuing his recording artist fame, Dr. Kip Ludwig participated in a conversation about adhering to and improving scientific rigor in neuroscience and it’s impact on the foundations of neuroscience. This podcast is a part of …
March 1, 2021Behind the Electrodes-Podcast with NeuroOne
WITNe’s Dr. Kip Ludwig was recently interviewed on the second episode of the NeuroOne podcast intended to highlight both the promise and pitfalls of clinical neurotechnology. In this interview he discusses the difficulty of …
November 17, 2020
NIH New Innovator Award for Dr. Hai
Dr. Aviad Hai and his lab have always been innovators but now have been recognized on a national level for their ingenious ideas and work in neuroscience and biomedical engineering. The Hai lab has been …
October 7, 2020Dr. Trevathan and the Dorsal Striatum of a Behaving Mouse
It doesn’t quite sound like the title to your favorite wizarding novel, but, Dr. Trevathan’s Calcium imaging in freely-moving mice during electrical simulation of deep brain structures, is just as magical. Just recently published in …
September 22, 2020
Congratulations Dr. Settell!
Our very own Dr. Megan Settell crushed her thesis defense and can officially live up to her #PhD lifestyle. We’re so very proud of Megan and all that she’s accomplished we can’t wait to see …
August 19, 2020