NYU Langone Receives $8M NIH Grant to Develop State-of-Art Brain Implant to Study Epilepsy
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There is so much more we will be able to learn about electrical activity in the brain."
Key Points:
- There is so much more we will be able to learn about electrical activity in the brain."
- Prototypes were tested intraoperatively for a period of up to 30 minutes in dozens of patients at both Duke and NYU Langone.
- Clinical trials using an FDA-approved monitoring implant are expected to begin at NYU Langone Health in 2023.
- The funding award is from NIH's Brain Research Through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) Initiative, which is aimed at revolutionizing our understanding of the human brain.