InterfaceRice 2024 conference convenes neuroengineering experts
The Rice Neuroengineering Initiative recently held its two-day InterfaceRice 2024 as experts in neuroscience, neuroengineering, neurotechnology and neurosurgery convened for an event that connects Rice and the Texas Medical Center with global researchers and clinicians.
Study uncovers neural mechanisms underlying foraging behavior in freely moving animals
Rice neuroscientist Valentin Dragoi and team shed light on what happens in the brain of freely-moving macaques engaged in foraging behavior.
Rice team demonstrates miniature brain stimulator in humans
Rice engineers have developed the smallest implantable brain stimulator demonstrated in a human patient that could revolutionize treatment for drug-resistant depression and other psychiatric or neurological disorders.
Live from the brain: Visual cues inform decision to cooperate
By combining behavioral and wireless eye tracking and neural monitoring, a team of Rice scientists and collaborators studied how pairs of freely moving macaques interacting in a naturalistic setting use visual cues to guide complex, cooperative behavior.
Houston Methodist, Rice launch Center for Neural Systems Restoration
Houston Methodist and Rice recently launched the Center for Neural Systems Restoration, a joint interdisciplinary center for neuroscience research and treatment innovation that aims to advance care for neurological conditions by bringing together scientists, clinicians, engineers and surgeons to tackle medical challenges like stroke recovery and spinal cord injury.
Rice scientists use blood test to track gene expression in the brain
Rice-engineered synthetic serum marker can track gene expression in the brain noninvasively, using blood tests.
Rice-engineered material can reconnect severed nerves
Rice neuroengineers designed the first self-rectifying magnetoelectric material and showed it can not only precisely stimulate neurons remotely but also reconnect a broken sciatic nerve in a rat model.
Rice Biotech Launch Pad introduces external advisory board
Rice University today announced its external advisory board for the Rice Biotech Launch Pad, the new accelerator focused on expediting the translation of the university’s health and medical technology discoveries into cures.
Rice University today introduced the Rice Biotech Launch Pad, a Houston-based accelerator focused on expediting the translation of the university’s health and medical technology discoveries into cures.
US Sen. Cornyn’s staff visits Rice
Alaura Ervin, legislative assistant for U.S. Sen. John Cornyn, toured several Rice Neuroengineering Initiative labs and the Ion Aug. 23, learning about the ways Rice is strengthening the workforce. (Photos by Nathan Cook)
Tiny, flexible spinal probe system could lead to better therapies
A $6.25 million National Institutes of Health grant supports Rice U. engineers optimizing a neural probe array that can record the activity of spinal cord neurons as bodies move and behave. Scientists would also develop an integrated data-processing and stimulation-feedback system.
Four Rice undergraduates latest Owls to win coveted Goldwater Scholarship
Rising Rice seniors Maria Hancu, Alex Lin, Ryan Wang and Ruofeng “Charlie” Liu are the latest Owls to win the coveted Goldwater Scholarship, one of the most prestigious honors bestowed each year upon pioneering STEM undergraduates across the country planning to pursue doctoral degrees.
NIH grant backs study focused on Alzheimer’s in women
Rice University postdoctoral fellow Hannah Ballard has won a three-year grant from the National Institutes of Health to investigate the link between the transition to menopause and Alzheimer’s disease.
Flexible nanoelectrodes can provide fine-grained brain stimulation
Rice University engineers have developed ultraflexible implantable nanoelectrodes that can administer long-term, fine-grained brain stimulation.
Neuroengineering’s InterfaceRice 2023 conference draws 160-plus
More than 160 leaders in neurotechnology, neuroscience, neuroengineering and neurosurgery attended InterfaceRice 2023, the inaugural conference of the Rice Neuroengineering Initiative, May 18-19.
