Innovations at the Intersection of Neural Engineering, Materials Sci & Medicine

描述（由申请人提供）：影响：这个P30的建议将解冻一个新的教师招聘，以加强通过在宾夕法尼亚州立大学神经工程生物医学研究核心中心的资源。其影响将是能够在多学科中心聘请一位强大而独特的候选人，并促进神经工程和材料科学的融合，具有强大的转化潜力，以提高我们对功能性MRI，中风治疗和与大脑接口的理解。 概述：宾夕法尼亚州立大学正在建设一个新的2.15亿美元的设施-千年科学综合体-这将容纳，在协同附近，其首要计划：神经工程中心（CNE），材料研究所（MRI）和哈克生命科学研究所（HUCK）。神经工程中心的战略愿景是专注于这些领域的交叉，并创建一个核心生物医学研究设施，战略重点是材料大脑。该恢复法案提案旨在创建一个独特的初级招聘职位，以促进这种新的核心设施提供的跨学科机会。其中包括招聘将神经工程与材料和生命科学联系起来的教师，并利用该设施内聚集的世界级专家。新聘人员将在工程科学与力学系（ESM）担任终身教职，在神经外科系担任二级职务，成为神经外科中心的核心教师。 在MRI和HUCK担任工程师和附属公司的职务。 候选人：经过长达一年的国际搜索，最佳候选人选定的是博士帕特里克德鲁。宾夕法尼亚州立大学是一所州立大学。在宾夕法尼亚州目前的经济形势下（预算衰退），我们没有足够的资金来满足德鲁博士的创业需求。 因此，他的招募工作被冻结。这个恢复法P30赠款申请旨在帮助我们支持德鲁博士，谁将加入我们的教师在2009-2010学年，如果这一建议得到资助的雇用。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Impact: This P30 proposal will unfreeze a new faculty recruitment to enhance resources through a Biomedical Research Core Center in Neural Engineering at Penn State University. The impact will be the ability to hire a powerful and unique candidate in a multidisciplinary center and foster the fusion of Neural Engineering and Materials Science, with powerful translational potential to improve our understanding of functional MRI, the treatment of stroke, and interfacing with the brain. Overview: Penn State University is constructing a new $215 Million facility - The Millennium Science Complex - that will house, in synergistic proximity, its premier programs: the Center for Neural Engineering (CNE), the Materials Research Institute (MRI), and the HUCK Institutes for the Life Sciences (HUCK). The strategic vision of the Center for Neural Engineering is to focus on the intersection of these fields, and create a Core Biomedical Research Facility focused strategically on The Material Brain. This Recovery Act proposal seeks to create a unique junior hiring position to foster the trans-disciplinary opportunities that such a new core facility provides. These include recruiting faculty who bridge Neural Engineering to the Materials and Life Sciences, and taking advantage of the world-class specialists gathered within this facility. The new hire will hold a tenure track appointment in the Department of Engineering Science and Mechanics (ESM), a secondary appointment in the Department of Neurosurgery, become core faculty in the Center for Neural Engineering and hold affiliate appointments in MRI and HUCK. The Candidate: After a yearlong international search, the top candidate selected was Dr. Patrick Drew. Penn State University is a State-Related institution. In the present economic situation (with budget recessions) in Pennsylvania, we do not have sufficient funds to meet Dr. Drew's startup needs. Consequently, his recruitment is frozen. This Recovery Act P30 grant application seeks to help us support the hiring of Dr. Drew, who would join our faculty in the 2009-2010 academic year if this proposal is funded.