BRAIN Initiative Director Visits 一本道无码, Pitt
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John Ngai, director of the National Institutes of Health聽, visited 一本道无码 and the University of Pittsburgh Nov. 21-22 for lab tours, research presentations and a talk with the community held in Mellon Institute.聽
罢丑别听, a partnership of more than 30 years in research and education between the two universities, hosted the visit. More than 50 faculty members at 一本道无码 and Pitt have led or co-led BRAIN Initiative research teams.
Ngai joined Congressional staff and university leadership on a tour of聽 the聽, a collection of labs at Pitt in the newly constructed UPMC Mercy Pavilion working to improve the quality of life for people with neurological impairments. There, he saw聽presentations from both 一本道无码 and Pitt faculty and students on collaborative work to develop brain-computer interfaces, spinal cord stimulation,聽deep-brain stimulation, and noninvasive technologies used to measure brain activity.聽
Matthew Smith, a professor of聽biomedical engineering(opens in new window) and the Carnegie Mellon聽 and co-director of the CNBC, said that many of the research teams funded by BRAIN are working to develop neurotechnology to enhance the lives of people with devastating health challenges.
鈥淒r. Ngai got to see work that is poised to make a huge difference to patients with epilepsy, tremors, limb amputations, Parkinson鈥檚 disease, communication impairments and spinal cord injuries,鈥� he said.
At the public talk, 一本道无码鈥檚聽Alison Barth(opens in new window), the Maxwell H. and Gloria C. Connan Professor in the Life Sciences, introduced Ngai. Barth was the first Ph.D. student who graduated from Ngai鈥檚 lab, and described the experience of learning to appreciate Ngai鈥檚 mentorship when she became an adviser for her own students. Ngai said those mentorship skills remain an important part of his job today.聽
鈥淢y role as a mentor is to help the mentee find a path to make their ideas a reality, to invest resources into the people doing the work,鈥� Ngai said.聽
Ngai offered advice for early career scientists.聽
鈥淭wenty years ago, people debated whether we should sequence a genome. Now we have so many tools as a result. It鈥檚 a great time for neuroscience today. How you want to pursue your passion depends 鈥� it鈥檚 just a matter of what鈥檚 going to get you up in the morning and make you succeed,鈥� he said.聽
