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$6.3 million DARPA grant boosts spinal repair research
Grant funds University collaboration with Intel, R.I. Hospital, Micro Leads Medical to create spinal tech
By Kathleen Meininger
Contributing Writer
Friday, October 11, 2019
Summer Zhang / Herald
A $6.3 million research grant from the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency will allow University researchers to develop an implantable spinal device to help repair neural connections in the spine.
The grant will fund a University collaboration with the Rhode Island Hospital, Intel Corporation and Micro Leads Medical.
This new project falls at the intersection of neuroscience, computer science, engineering and clinical research. Researchers have created an implantable device that can record and stimulate areas both above and below a spinal injury in patients with spinal cord damage. Once the device records a signal traveling down the spinal cord from the brain, the signal is sent to a computer interface to be decoded by neural network algorithms, which are computer systems designed to recognize and transmit neural patterns. Then, the signal is used to stimulate the area of the spinal cord below the injury.
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