IEEE EMBS Young Investigator Award

WPI Biomedical Engineering Assistant Professor, Dirk Albrecht, was awarded a Young Investigator Award from the IEEE-EMBS BRAIN Grand Challenges Conference held November 13-14, 2014 in Washington, D.C.  Thirteen awardees were selected from nearly 200 attendees presenting their neuroscience work related to the BRAIN Initiative (Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies), a public/private investment announced in 2013 focused on revolutionizing our understanding of the human brain (whitehouse.gov/brain).  Prof. Albrecht presented work titled “High-throughput in vivo neural imaging for functional circuit mapping, observing neural variability, and identifying regulators of neural excitability.”

Photo Credit: Bin He, Chair IEEE-EMBS BRAIN Grand Challenges Conference