Pandarinath wins Interdisciplinary Rehabilitation Engineering Research Career Development Grant (IREK12)

Grant will support the development of new strategies to help restore movement to people who are paralyzed, including those affected by spinal cord injury and stroke.

Chethan Pandarinath, assistant professor in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory, has been awarded an Interdisciplinary Rehabilitation Engineering Research Career Development Grant (IREK12) through the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Pandarinath is also an assistant professor of neurosurgery at Emory University and a member of the Emory Neuromodulation Technology Innovation Center (ENTICe).

The grant, entitled “A novel brain-machine interface for rehabilitation,” aims to develop new strategies to help restore movement to people who are paralyzed, including those affected by spinal cord injury and stroke. Brain-machine interface systems interface directly with the brain to allow people with paralysis to control external assistive devices, such as robotic arms or exoskeletons, or to control the movement of their own limbs through direct electrical stimulation of muscles.

More info at https://news.emory.edu/stories/2019/02/chethan_pandarinath_grant/index.html