{"623074":{"#nid":"623074","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Training the Next Generation","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University have launched a training grant program in Computational Neural Engineering (CNE) with support from the National Institutes of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe program is charged with training the next generation of multidisciplinary researchers working at the intersection of computational neuroscience, data science, and clinical\u0026nbsp;neurophysiology. It is designed to take advantage of the opportunities presented by the explosion of new tools for measurement and manipulation of nervous system function,\u0026nbsp;and the challenges posed by the growing threat of neurological diseases and disorders on an expanding senior population. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe program\u0026nbsp;will leverage past successes in federally-funded training efforts that have helped to catalyze rapid and recent growth in research and education in\u0026nbsp;Computational Neural Engineering across the Georgia Tech and Emory communities.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe award of\u0026nbsp;nearly\u0026nbsp;$1 million will support the traditional and innovative training\u0026nbsp;activities\u0026nbsp;of Ph.D. students in\u0026nbsp;Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory, as well as Bioengineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Machine\u0026nbsp;Learning Ph.D. programs at Tech, leveraging \u0026nbsp;the growing strength of Neural Engineering at both universities.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe\u0026nbsp;new CNE\u0026nbsp;Training\u0026nbsp;Program\u0026nbsp;is led by co-principal investigators Garrett Stanley and Lena Ting (both researchers in the Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience at Georgia Tech, where they are co-directors of the Neural Engineering Center), along with co-investigators Christopher Rozell and Jon Willie.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EStanley is the Carol Ann and David D. Flanagan\u0026nbsp;Professor\u0026nbsp;in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical\u0026nbsp;Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory. Ting is a professor in the Coulter Department and in the Division of Physical\u0026nbsp;Therapy in Emory\u0026rsquo;s Department of Rehabilitation Medicine. Rozell is a professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at\u0026nbsp;Tech (where he also is a Petit Institute researcher), and Willie is an assistant professor of neurological surgery and director of the Laboratory for Behavioral Neuromodulation at Emory.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"New program at Georgia Tech and Emory funded by NIH creating next wave of researchers in computational neural engineering "}],"field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ENew program at Georgia Tech and Emory funded by NIH creating next wave of researchers in computational neural engineering\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"New program at Georgia Tech and Emory funded by NIH creating next wave of researchers in computational neural engineering "}],"uid":"28153","created_gmt":"2019-07-09 14:05:40","changed_gmt":"2019-07-09 14:05:40","author":"Jerry Grillo","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2019-07-09T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2019-07-09T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"623073":{"id":"623073","type":"image","title":"Lena Ting and Garrett Stanley","body":null,"created":"1562681098","gmt_created":"2019-07-09 14:04:58","changed":"1562681098","gmt_changed":"2019-07-09 14:04:58","alt":"","file":{"fid":"237280","name":"lena and garrett.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/lena%20and%20garrett.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/lena%20and%20garrett.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":1294118,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/lena%20and%20garrett.jpg?itok=bsdgE5ib"}}},"media_ids":["623073"],"groups":[{"id":"1292","name":"Parker H. Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience (IBB)"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"126571","name":"go-PetitInstitute"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39441","name":"Bioengineering and Bioscience"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:jerry.grillo@ibb.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EJerry Grillo\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nCommunications Officer II\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nParker H. Petit Institute for\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nBioengineering and Bioscience\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["Jerry.grillo@ibb.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}