January 2024
The Neuromodulation Lab attended the 2024 North American Neuromodulation Society annual meeting!
- Luis was awarded the NANS’s 2024 “Diversity and Outreach Pipeline Award.”
- Wutt received the “Oral Abstract Award” at NANS 2024.
Congratulations on your achievements!
November 2023
For her outstanding scholarship, Wutt was awarded UM’s Kan-Chuang International Student Fellowship. Congratulations, Wutt!
October 2023
Wutt won 3rd place for the “full poster” category at the 2023 Biointerfaces Institute (BI) research day!
August 2023
Meagan’s paper “Evoked compound action potentials during spinal cord stimulation: effects of posture and pulse width on signal features and neural activation within the spinal cord” was published in the Journal of Neural Engineering. Good job, Meagan!
June 2023
June was another great month for the Lab.
- Evan successfully defended his dissertation titled “Computational Analysis of the Neurophysiological Effects of Spinal Cord Stimulation.” Congratulations, Dr. Rogers!
- Luis successfully defended his Qualifying Exam to reach candidacy, and completed his Master’s degree on his way to his PhD.
- Luis was selected to be a trainee under UM’s T32 Neural Engineering Training Program. Great job, Luis!
We also had some wonderful lab members transition to the next stage in their careers:
- Amolak started medical school at Wayne State University
- Jessica started medical school at Temple University
- Nystha successfully finished her postdoc and started an industry role
We wish you all the best!
May 2023
May was a great month for the lab.
- Meagan won the best presenter award at the 2023 UM BME Research Symposium
- Wutt won the best poster award at the 2023 UM BME Research Symposium
- Luis won the best poster award at the 2023 UM Neural Engineering Training Program Symposium
Congratulations, everyone!
April 2023
Liam won 1st place at the Sling Health National Pitch Competition. Congratulations, Liam!
March 2023
Wutt recieved a travel award to attend TechChicago’s BIPOc in Biotech Conference. Way to go, Wutt!
January 2023
Meagan was awarded the North American Neuromodulation Society’s 2024 “Diversity and Outreach Pipeline Award.” Congratulations, Meagan!
September 2022
Wutt was awarded the UM Biomedical Engineering Chair’s Award for Excellence. Congratulations, Wutt!
June 2022
Meagan successfully defended her Qualifying Exam to reach candidacy, and completed her Master’s degree on her way to her PhD. Good job, Meagan!
May 2022
Wutt Hmone Thin Kyi and Liam Matthews joined the lab as rotating PhD students. Welcome, Wutt and Liam!
March 2022
Bobby successfully defended his dissertation, titled “Mechanisms of Action and Sources of Variability in Neurostimulation for Chronic Pain.” Congratulations, Dr. Graham!
December 2021
Bobby was awarded the Richard and Eleanor Towner Prize for Outstanding PhD research during the College of Engineering’s annual Engineering Research Symposium. Congratulations, Bobby!
September 2021
Evan’s paper “Neural recruitment during conventional, burst, and 10-kHz spinal cord stimulation for pain” was published in the Journal of Pain. Great work, Evan!
August 2021
Evan and Scott published a paper titled “Neuromodulation using ultra low frequency current waveform reversibly blocks axonal conduction and chronic pain” in Science Translational Medicine. This work was in collaboration with Dr. Stephen McMahon’s group at King’s College London, Dr. Marc Russo at the Hunter Pain Clinic, and Presidio Medical Inc. This work was also featured in an article in the University of Michigan Medical School’s Lab Notes. Outstanding, everyone!
Bobby’s paper “Dorsal root ganglion stimulation for chronic pain: Hypothesized mechanisms of action” was published in the Journal of Pain. Great job, Bobby!
July 2021
Hans successfully defended his dissertation, titled “Computational modeling of spinal cord stimulation for inspiratory muscle activation and chronic pain management.” Congratulations, Dr. Zander!
June 2021
Jessica Loechli joined the lab. Welcome, Jessica!
May 2021
Hans’ paper “Model-based optimization of spinal cord stimulation for inspiratory muscle activation” was published in Neuromodulation. Outstanding, Hans!
Anagha Kotkar joined the lab as a graduate student in Biomedical Engineering. Welcome, Anagha!
January 2021
Vish’s paper “Quantitative sensory testing of spinal cord and dorsal root ganglion stimulation in chronic pain patients” was published in Neuromodulation. Excellent work, Vish!
November 2020
Ehsan’s paper “Biophysics of temporal interference stimulation” was published in Cell Systems, in collaboration with the Capogrosso group at the University of Pittsburgh. This work was also featured in an article in the University of Michigan Medical School’s Lab Notes. Outstanding, Ehsan!
July 2020
Luis Ruiz Perez joined the lab as a PREP scholar. Welcome, Luis!
June 2020
Scott co-authored an opinion piece titled “What is the key conceptual or methodological bottleneck to controlling neural biology?” in Cell Systems with Marco Capogrosso. Fantastic, Scott!
Bobby’s paper “The effect of clinically controllable factors on neural activation during dorsal root ganglion stimulation” was published in Neuromodulation. Good job, Bobby!
The lab published a paper titled “A patient-specific computational framework for the Argus II implant” in collaboration with Jim Weiland’s BioElectronic Vision lab. Great work, everyone!
Scott published an editorial titled “Can patient-specific computer models help in pain clinics using spinal cord stimulation?” in Bioelectronics in Medicine. Awesome, Scott!
May 2020
Scott co-authored a Perspective piece titled “A computational outlook on neurostimulation” with Marco Capogrosso (University of Pittsburgh) in Bioelectronic Medicine. Nice one, Scott!
Hans’ paper “Anatomical and technical factors affecting the neural response to epidural spinal cord stimulation” was published in the Journal of Neural Engineering. Outstanding, Hans!
Kelly Crumley and Meagan Brucker joined the lab as rotating PhD students. Welcome, Kelly and Meagan!
Bobby was awarded an F31 Predoctoral Fellowship from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) through the NIH. Congratulations, Bobby!
April 2020
Many lab members were involved in the NYC Neuromodulation 2020 Online Conference:
- Scott served on the Conference Scientific Committee, and chaired several sessions:
- Neurophysiological effects of spinal cord stimulation for chronic pain management
- Emerging applications of spinal cord stimulation
- Advanced approaches to spinal cord stimulation for pain
- Ehsan, Hans, and Evan all helped moderate sessions
- Bobby gave a talk on his work modeling dorsal root ganglion stimulation for chronic pain
Excellent work, everyone!
March 2020
The lab published a paper titled “Realistic anatomically detailed open-source spinal cord stimulation (RADO-SCS) model” in collaboration with Marom Bikson’s group at CCNY. Great job, everyone!
Bobby received the Biointerfaces Institute Student Innovator Award. Great job, Bobby!
February 2020
Ehsan’s poster “Towards fast construction of patient-specific neurostimulation models using parametric reduced order modeling” won Best Poster in his group at this year’s North American Neuromodulation Society meeting. Outstanding work, Ehsan!
Bobby received two awards from the College of Engineering: the Distinguished Leadership Award, and the Richard F. and Eleanor A. Towner Prize for Distinguished Academic Achievement. Congratulations, Bobby!
January 2020
Several lab members presented their work at the 2020 North American Neuromodulation Society meeting. Nice work, everyone!
Amolak Jhand joined the lab. Welcome, Amolak!
The lab published a paper titled “Spatial models of cell distribution in human lumbar dorsal root ganglia,” in collaboration with Tim Bruns’ pNEURO lab. Great job, everyone!
November 2019
An article in ClickOnDetroit featured Scott and some work going on in the lab!
September 2019
Vanessa Pruitt, MSW, joined the lab. Welcome, Vanessa!
Bobby received a Travel Award for the 2020 North American Neuromodulation Society Annual Meeting. Nice one, Bobby!
August 2019
Evan successfully defended his Qualifying Exam to reach candidacy, and completed his Master’s degree on his way to his PhD. Excellent work, Evan!
Scott’s paper “Patient-specific analysis of neural activation during spinal cord stimulation for pain” was published in Neuromodulation, and was selected as the cover article for the July 2020 Issue! Great job, Scott!
April 2019
Carlos’ paper “Evoked potentials recorded from the spinal cord during neurostimulation for pain: A computational modeling study” was published in Neuromodulation. Excellent work, Carlos!
March 2019
Bobby received a Rackham Graduate Student Research Grant to help defray the costs of conducting his research project. Congratulations, Bobby!
February 2019
Bobby’s paper “Dorsal root ganglion stimulation for chronic pain modulates Aβ-fiber activity but not C-fiber activity: a computational modeling study” was published in Clinical Neurophysiology. Great job, Bobby!
January 2019
Alice Tracey joined the lab. Welcome, Alice!
December 2018
Scott’s review paper “Innovations in spinal cord stimulation for pain” was published in Current Opinion in Biomedical Engineering! Nice one, Scott!
November 2018
Hans, Carlos, and Bobby presented posters at the 2018 Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting. Great job, guys!
September 2018
Vish’s paper “Objective measures to characterize the physiological effects of spinal cord stimulation in neuropathic pain: a literature review” was published in Neuromodulation, and was selected as the cover article for the February 2019 Issue! Great work, Vish!
Hannah Soifer joined the lab. Welcome, Hannah!
August 2018
Carlos received a Biomedical Engineering Graduate Assistance in Areas of National Need (GAANN) fellowship. Excellent, Carlos!
Hans and Bobby completed their Master’s degrees on their way to their PhDs. Great job, Hans and Bobby!
July 2018
Hans and Bobby successfully defended their Qualifying Exams to reach candidacy. Congratulations, Hans and Bobby!
June 2018
Carlos received a Travel Award for the 2018 Neural Interfaces Conference. Excellent work, Carlos!
May 2018
Ehsan Mirzakhalili, PhD and Katrina Yeomans joined the lab. Welcome, Ehsan and Katrina!
April 2018
Carlos was named an Honorable Mention for the 2018 National Science Foundation’s Graduate Research Fellowship Program. Great work, Carlos!
January 2018
Dr. Vishwanath (Vish) Sankarasubramanian was accepted into the Postdoctoral Translational Scholar Program (PTSP) in the Michigan Institute for Clinical & Health Research (MICHR) for his translational research on neuromodulation therapies for chronic pain management. Congratulations, Vish!
August 2017
Evan Rogers and Carlos Anaya Ramirez joined the lab. Welcome, Evan and Carlos!
July 2017
Robert Graham received a Rackham Graduate Student Research Grant to help defray the costs of conducting his research project. Congratulations, Bobby!
January 2017
Dr. Lempka received the 2017 Kumar New Investigator Best Manuscript Award from the North American Neuromodulation Society (NANS). This award is named in honor of Dr. Krishna Kumar who was a pioneer in the field of clinical neuromodulation therapies for chronic pain. At the 2017 NANS Annual Meeting in Las Vegas, NV, Dr. Lempka presented his computer modeling work of kilohertz frequency spinal cord stimulation.
October 2016
Robert Graham and Hans Zander join the Neuromodulation Lab. Welcome, Bobby and Hans!
September 2016
Vishwanath Sankarasubramanian, PhD, becomes the first official member of the Neuromodulation Lab. Welcome, Vish!