Research

PI: Namas Chandra

• Characterization of the mechanisms causing blast-induced brain injury, US Army medical command/Henry Jackson Foundation
• Development of methodology for standardized testing under blast loading conditions using modular shock tube, Program Executive Office, Aberdeen Proving Grounds
• Fundamental Understanding of the Mechanism of Cavitation, One of the Possible Mechanisms of Blast-Induced Traumatic Brain Injury using Surrogate Models, Office of Naval Research
• Experimental and Computational Studies of Blast and Blunt Traumatic Brain Injury, Army Research Laboratory
• Divergent mechanisms of early cellular injury in high-rate blast and slow im, New Jersey Commission on Brain Injury
• Biofidelic Rat Testing Device (RTD) to Measure Blast Exposure and Loadings for TBI, CFD Research Corporation Under STTR

PI: Namas Chandra
Co-PI: Bryan Pfister

• Primary Blast Injury Criteria for Animal/Human Models using Field Validated Shock Tubes, US Army Materials and Medical Command

PI: Namas Chandra
Co-PI: Vijayalakshmi Santhakumar

• Biomechanical differences in injury rate determine neurological outcomes after blast and impact TBI, Rutgers, RBHS & NJIT

PI: Farzan Nadim
Co-PI: Dirk Bucher

• The role of axons in neural coding
• Neuromodulation of neuronal oscillations
• Long-term regulation of neuromodulation, in collaboration with the Schulz lab at the University of Missouri

PI: Farzan Nadim
Co-PI: Horacio Rotstein

• Membrane potential resonance in neurons and networks

PI: Farzan Nadim
Co-PI: Dirk Bucher
Co-PI: Horacio Rotstein

• Decoding rules of synaptic plasticity

PI: Casey Diekman

• Neuronal data assimilation tools and models for understanding circadian rythms
• Mulitsensory integration by circadian clocks

PI: Simon Garnier

• Swarm lab RTMDx software
• Cognitive-like behaviors in a unicellular slime mold

PI: Gal Haspal

• A minimal locomotion circuit to investigate neuronal regeneration

PI: Antje Ihlefeld

• Advancing diagnostics tools in cochlear implants

PI: James Haorah

• Mechanisms of atherosclerosis in alcohol intake

PI: Eric Fortune

• Neural mechanisms for a cooperative behavior
• Neural mechanisms of active sensing

PI: Victor Matveev

• Cell calcium dynamics

PI: Camelia Prodan

• Engineering new materials based on topological phonon edge modes

PI: Bryan Pfister

• In-Vitro platforms for medium throughput of injury to human glutamatergic cortical projection neurons
• A therapeutic approach to alleviate angiotensin II-induced neurovascular complications in traumatic brain injury
• Novel cellular approach to study acute neuronal hyperexcitability in traumatic brain injury model
• Surrogate prototyping and experiments for traumatic brain injury
• Linking how the magnitude, rate, and impulse of loading to the brain leads to varying types and levels of damage to neuronal structure and function

PI: Mesut Sahin

• Electrophysiological assessment of cerebellar injury
• Underlying mechanisms of transcranial DC stimulation of the cerebellum
• A whole-brain ultrasonic neural stimulation and photoacoustic recording system in behaving animals
• Spinal cord computer interface