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

描述（由申请人提供）：影响：本P30提案将解冻新的教师招聘，以通过宾夕法尼亚州立大学神经工程生物医学研究核心中心增加资源。其影响将是能够在多学科中心雇用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耗资2.15亿美元的新设施——千年科学综合大楼——它将容纳其主要项目：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，战略上专注于物质大脑。这项《复苏法案》提案旨在创造一个独特的初级招聘职位，以促进这样一个新的核心设施提供的跨学科机会。这些措施包括招聘神经工程与材料和生命科学之间的桥梁教师，并利用聚集在该设施内的世界级专家。新聘人员将在工程科学与力学系（ESM）获得终身职位，在神经外科系获得二级职位，成为神经中心的核心教员

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.