People

David P. Corey

david_corey@hms.harvard.edu

Bertarelli Professor of Translational Medical Science

Professor of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School

Neurobiology, Goldenson 443b
220 Longwood Avenue
Boston, MA 02115

p: (617) 432-2506

Gail Rock Townsend

HarvardBertarelli@hms.harvard.edu

Manager, Bertarelli Program

Harvard Medical School

Department of Neurobiology, Goldenson 443a

p: (617) 432-2507

Maurice Abou Jaoude

Faculty Mentor: Sydney Cash, M.D., Ph.D.

Department of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital

Project Title: Detection of Deep Interictal Epileptiform Discharges (IED) from scalp EEG

Project Summary: Epilepsy is one of the most common neurological chronic brain disorders, affecting nearly 50 million people globally. In the clinic, the most widely used evaluation for the diagnosis of epilepsy is the detection of interictal (between...

Noaf Alwahab

Faculty Mentor: Zhigang He, Ph.D., B.M.

Department of Neurology, Boston Children's Hospital

Project Title: Deconstructing corticospinal mechanisms of forelimb motor control

Project Summary: Disruption of the corticospinal pathway following spinal cord injury or stroke is known to drastically debilitate skilled locomotion. This pathway is mainly involved in bridging and decoding sensory information to be translated for the...

Léonie Asboth

Faculty Mentor: Alvaro Pascual-Leone, M.D., Ph.D.

Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) Department of Neurology

Project Summary: When planning a movement towards a visual target, the sensorimotor nervous system is engaged to estimate the spatial location of the target and correspondingly perform the motor output to reach it. Movements can be planned in two major...

John Assad

jassad@hms.harvard.edu

Professor of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School

Dept of Neurobiology, WAB 227
220 Longwood Avenue
Boston, MA 02115

p: (617) 432-2804

Marion Badi-Dubois

Faculty Mentor: Ole Isacson, M.D

McLean Hospital, Center for Neuroregeneration Research

Project Summary: The overall goal of the project in the Neuroregeneration lab is to assess, using preclinical in vivo and in vitro analyses, iPSC-derived neurons (midbrain dopaminergic) as a cell restoration therapy for Parkinson's disease (PD). As many...

Anne-Aimée Bernard

Daniel B. Polley, Ph.D.

Massachusetts Eye and Ear, Department of Otolaryngology

Project Title: Neuromodulation of reafferent sounds

Project Summary: We aim at reproducing neural reafferent modulation study done one mouse [10] with human subjects, using the blink as the reference for the audiomotor association. Subjects implicitly learn an arbitrary association between movement (blink)...

Nicolas Beuchat

Faculty Mentor: Paolo Bonato, Ph.D.

Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

Project Summary: Current robotic neurorehabilitation strategies for motor skills in stroke patients showed large variability in their outcome. Some patients show very promising improvement in their motor skills whereas others show no improvement at all...

Tobias Bodenmann

Albert Kim, Ph.D.

The Quantitative Translational Imaging in Medicine Lab (QTIM), Massachusetts General Hospital

Project Title: Multimodal Deep Learning for precision medicine in brain metastases

Project Summary: Brain metastases are an emerging challenge in modern Neuro-Oncology due to increasing incidence and limited treatments. Recent translational studies have demonstrated the potential efficacy of checkpoint inhibitors in brain metastases...

Justine Bourgeot

Paolo Bonato, Ph.D.

Motion Analysis Laboratory, Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital

Project Title: Video-Based Motion Analysis for Real-Time Assessment and Corrective Feedback during Home Based Upper Limb Rehabilitation for Stroke Survivors

Project Summary: Stroke is a leading cause of death and long-term disability worldwide. Among stroke survivors, up to 75% experience upper limb impairments, that hinder their daily activities. Many adopt compensatory strategies, such as using the...

Riccardo Carpineto

John Assad, Ph.D., Department of Neurobiology, HMS

Project Title: Dynamics of Inititation of Voluntary Movement in the Superior Colliculus in the Mouse Model

Project Summary: Voluntary movements, which are actions initiated without direct external stimuli, remain a central question in motor neuroscience. Unlike reactive movements, the timing of self-initiated actions must emerge from internal neural dynamics...