Dr. Ludwig, Podcast Celebrity, Strikes Again
The fourth Season of the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke’s Building Up the Nerve podcast, where they discuss the unwritten rules, or “hidden curriculum,” of scientific research at every career stage. Navigating your …
November 6, 2023Dr. Williams Receives Kellet Award
Twelve faculty have been honored with Kellett Mid-Career Awards to support those promoted to tenured positions seven to 20 years ago and who have made key research contributions in their fields. The award, named …
November 6, 2023Congrats to Dr. Nicolai
Congratulations to the newly minted Dr. Evan Nicolai who graduated from the Mayo Clinic BME program last week. Evan graduated with 14 papers published during his PhD, 4 first-author, and a fifth first-author paper about to go …
November 6, 2023Moshchin et. al quantifies changes in local basal ganglia
Moshchin et. al quantifies changes in local basal ganglia
August 15, 2023Hai Lab Reverse Engineers Silent Neural Networks
The Hai lab introduces a new concept for reverse engineering silent neuronal networks.
August 15, 2023Nicolai et al Stimulates Vagus Nerve with Endovascular Electrode Array
This post has been adapted from the abstract from Vagus Nerve Stimulation Using an Endovascular Electrode Array – Evan N Nicolai, Jorge Arturo Larco, Sarosh I Madhani, Samuel J Asirvatham, Su-youne Chang, Kip A Ludwig, Luis …
August 15, 2023Dr. Ludwig weighs in on Neuralink
WITNe co-director, Kip Ludwig, weighed in on Neuralink in an article published by Reuters. Read the full Reuters article here. “Exclusive: Musk’s Neuralink valued at about $5 blm despite long road to market – Rachel Levy, …
June 5, 2023
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