A recent article by Luisa Torres, PhD, in Drug Discovery News featured Dr. Jacob George in a discussion about the use of spinal cord stimulators in patients with lower-limb amputations. A recent Nature Biomedical Engineering study used spinal cord stimulation to restore the sense of touch, improve balance, and reduce phantom limb pain in patients…
Dr. Jacob George attended the 3rd Annual Limb Preservation Foundation’s Limb Symposium on April 19th in Golden, Colorado, where he presented the keynote speech titled “Future Forces: What’s Next in Bionic Legs and Arms”. The University of Utah’s PM&R Department also supported the Hope Beyond Limits Symposium by sponsoring a scholarship breakfast, which created networking…
Undergraduate student Lyndsey Schultz was awarded second place overall for her poster at the University of Utah’s BME Senior Symposium on April 19, 2024. Her poster is titled “Design of Lower-Limb Muscle Activity Monitoring Sock Using Surface Electrodes.” Congratulations Lyndsey!
Congratulations to Nathan Wallace, who took home the grand prize at the Bench To Beside competition! Congrats also to Michael Adkins, Monika Buczak, and Nate Toth for winning the “Best in Engineering” Award. They won $5,000 for their work on the Electronic Grip Gauge. Michael and Monika were student ambassadors for the University of Utah…
The Utah Neurorobotics Lab welcomes Caden Hamrick, who will be joining us this Fall as a PhD student in ECE. Although he will be a new PhD student, he brings with him a wealth of knowledge and experience. Caden worked with our lab as an undergraduate research fellow during the Summer of 2022, and was…
Dr. Jacob George and his Utah Neurorobotics Lab was recently awarded the Outstanding Undergraduate Research Mentor Award. Thank you to all the fabulous undergraduate researchers in our group whose collective achievements made this award possible. We’ve had 42 undergrad fellows in the lab, who have collectively achieved 31 co-authored abstracts, 21 first-author abstracts, 18 co-authored…
Congratulations to Michael Adkins for completing the NSF I-Corps Entrepreneurial Training Program! Through this program, Michael was awarded $50,000 for customer discovery to explore the commercial viability of his Electronic Grip Gauge (EGG). Over the past month, Michael interviewed over 100 stakeholders (therapists, patients, clinic directors, etc.) to come up with a concise value proposition…
Abby Citterman, a member of the NeuroRobotics Lab since 2020, a recent graduate of Biomedical Engineering at the U, and a graduate student at Northwestern University Prosthetics-Orthotics Center, attended the 50th Academy Annual Meeting & Scientific Symposium last week with the American Academy of Orthotists & Prosthetists. There, she was awarded the Women in O&P…
Abby Citterman, a dedicated member of the NeuroRobotics Lab since 2020, a recent graduate of biomedical engineering at the U, and a graduate student at Northwestern University Prosthetics-Orthotics Center, has been awarded the prestigious ABC O&P Scholarship, a $10,000 scholarship granted by the American Board for Certification in Orthotics, Prosthetics & Pedorthics (ABC) and the…
University of Utah President, Taylor Randall, highlighted the Utah NeuroRobotics Lab multiple times during his recent presentations to the Utah State Legislature. The Utah NeuroRobotics Lab was recognized as a driving force of innovation at the University of Utah, pioneering new technologies that can lead to substantial economic growth in Utah. Slides from the talk…