Planning IUCRC Stevens Institute of Technology: Center for Building Reliable Advances and Innovation in Neurotechnology (BRAIN)

规划 IUCCRC 史蒂文斯理工学院：神经技术可靠进步与创新中心 (BRAIN)

• 批准号: 1939121
• 负责人: Ramana Vinjamuri
• 金额: $ 1.5万
• 依托单位: Stevens Institute of Technology
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-04-01 至 2020-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1939121&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Planning; IUCRC; Stevens; Institute; Technology

Age-related diseases, neurological disorders, such as stroke, spinal cord injury and traumatic brain injury can have debilitating effects on cognitive-motor function, significantly decreasing quality and length of life. There is a critical need for technologies to effectively address the care and rehabilitation. However, innovation in these neurotechnologies faces several challenges: slow rate of evaluation when compared to invention, lack of standards for safety, efficacy, and long-term reliability, longer time-to-market and lack of affordable technologies. To address these challenges, the Stevens Institute of Technology (SIT) site will partner with Arizona State University (ASU) and the University of Houston (UH) to join a multi-institution Industry/University Cooperative Research Center (IUCRC) for Building Reliable Advances and Innovation in Neurotechnology (BRAIN).BRAIN’s vision is a synergistic, interdisciplinary approach to develop and validate affordable patient-centered technologies. BRAIN will leverage expertise in neurotechnologies at SIT, UH and ASU to 1) enhance testing and validation of new technologies through industrial partnerships 2) develop standards for technologies using system-level approaches 3) characterize innovative technologies such as biosensors and quantitative analysis tools for systems and behaviors 4) evaluate the impact of these technologies on quality of life and 5) reduce the cost of neurotechnologies. BRAIN’s mission is multifold: to accelerate the progress of science and advance national health by transferring engineering innovations in neurotechnology to the end users, and to rectify underrepresentation in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) fields by broadening new participation and retaining current participants in STEM. It also will focus on problems in the neurological space that affect underrepresented groups disproportionately. BRAIN will become an innovative neurotechnology hub, creating a pipeline from discoveries to solutions while helping talented students, scientists, and engineers in the region take their innovations to the next level and solve one of the greatest unmet medical and health care needs of our time.BRAIN will leverage unique research and development ecosystems with industrial partnerships to design and validate neurotechnologies that can effectively transform the lives of individuals with disabilities. The SIT IUCRC site will contribute in five primary themes – cyber human systems, artificial intelligence, neurobionics, nerve repair and regeneration and neuromechanics. The site will bring in expertise in artificial intelligence, big data analytics, cloud computing, computational modeling, neural interfaces, biomechanics, wearable robots, virtual and augmented reality and other noninvasive solutions. The site's data management plan will ensure data integrity, data sharing, and data mining according to institutional and federal guidelines.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

中风、脊髓损伤和创伤性脑损伤等与精神病有关的疾病、神经系统疾病可削弱认知运动功能，大大降低生活质量和寿命。迫切需要有效解决护理和康复问题的技术。然而，这些神经技术的创新面临着几个挑战：与发明相比，评估速度缓慢，缺乏安全性，有效性和长期可靠性的标准，上市时间较长以及缺乏负担得起的技术。为了应对这些挑战，史蒂文斯理工学院（SIT）将与亚利桑那州立大学（ASU）和休斯顿大学（UH）合作，加入一个多机构的工业/大学合作研究中心（IUCRC），以建立可靠的神经技术进步和创新（BRAIN）。BRAIN的愿景是一种协同的跨学科方法，以开发和验证负担得起的以患者为中心的技术。BRAIN将利用SIT在神经技术方面的专业知识，UH和ASU 1）通过工业伙伴关系加强新技术的测试和验证2）使用系统级方法开发技术标准3）表征创新技术，如生物传感器和系统和行为的定量分析工具4）评估这些技术对生活质量的影响5）降低神经技术的成本。BRAIN的使命是多重的：通过将神经技术中的工程创新转移给最终用户，加速科学进步并促进国民健康，并通过扩大新的参与者并保留现有的参与者来纠正科学，技术，工程和数学（STEM）领域的代表性不足。它还将重点关注影响代表性不足的群体不成比例的神经系统问题。BRAIN将成为一个创新的神经技术中心，创建一个从发现到解决方案的管道，同时帮助有才华的学生，科学家，该地区的工程师将他们的创新提升到一个新的水平，并解决我们这个时代最大的未满足的医疗和卫生保健需求之一。BRAIN将利用独特的研究和开发生态系统与工业合作伙伴关系，设计和验证可以有效改变生活的神经技术。of individuals个人with disabilities残疾. SIT IUCRC网站将在五个主要主题上做出贡献-网络人类系统，人工智能，神经仿生学，神经修复和再生以及神经力学。该网站将带来人工智能，大数据分析，云计算，计算建模，神经接口，生物力学，可穿戴机器人，虚拟和增强现实以及其他非侵入性解决方案的专业知识。该网站的数据管理计划将确保数据的完整性，数据共享，并根据机构和联邦的指导方针数据挖掘。这个奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并已被认为是值得的支持，通过评估使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准。