http://brown.edu/academics/biomedical-engineering/news en http://brown.edu/academics/biomedical-engineering/news/2013-06/new-neuroengineering-faculty-david-borton <p><strong>Professor David Borton </strong>received his BS degree in Biomedical Engineering from Washington University in St. Louis in 2006 concentrating in bioelectricity where he studied computational neuroscience, functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), and molecular neurobiology under the direction of Prof. Joshua Brown, Prof. Larry Snyder, and Prof. Steven Mennerick, respectively. In 2006, he then joined Brown University where he worked towards his Ph.D. </p> <div class="field field-type-filefield field-field-news-image"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <img class="imagefield imagefield-field_news_image" width="301" height="301" alt="" src="http://brown.edu/academics/biomedical-engineering/sites/brown.edu.academics.biomedical-engineering/files/images/news/2012/Borton_Brown_Photo_News2.jpg?1371498799" /> </div> </div> </div> <p><a href="http://brown.edu/academics/biomedical-engineering/news/2013-06/new-neuroengineering-faculty-david-borton" target="_blank">read more</a></p> Mon, 17 Jun 2013 19:54:33 +0000 ktuccita 264 at http://brown.edu/academics/biomedical-engineering http://brown.edu/academics/biomedical-engineering/news/2013-05/tangle-talents-untangles-neurons <div class="content"> <p>Brown’s growing programs in brain science and engineering come together in the lab of Diane Hoffman-Kim. In a recent paper, her group employed techniques ranging from semiconductor-style circuit patterning to rat cell culture to optimize the growth of nerve cells for applications such as reconstructive surgery. <br /> <br /> <strong>PROVIDENCE, R.I.</strong> [Brown University] — Two wrongs don’t make a right, they say, but here’s how one tangle can straighten out another. <br /> </p> </div><div class="field field-type-text field-field-news-image-title"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> The secrets of Schwann-like substrates Cristina Lopez-Fagundo, left, and Diane Hoffman-Kim are figuring out optimal designs for implants that will guide neuron growth in new tissue. </div> </div> </div> <div class="field field-type-text field-field-news-image-credit"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> Credit: Mike Cohea/Brown University </div> </div> </div> <div class="field field-type-text field-field-news-image-caption"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <p></p> <div class="caption"><s