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Emory provost and biomedical scientist Ravi Bellamkonda has received the National Institutes of Health Director’s Transformative Research Award for his work using electrical fields to treat a particularly aggressive pediatric cancer.
Emory researcher Chethan Pandarinath is using artificial intelligence to build brain-machine interfaces to assist people with paralysis, specifically those with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis. The NIH award will support a clinical trial launching this fall.
Emory studying mind-body interventions for trauma-related dissociation Emory University is part of a $3.8 million grant from the NIH’s National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health awarded to both Emory and University of Pittsburgh. The funding will support a clinical trial to test the mechanisms of new mind-body interventions for trauma-related dissociation. Dissociation is a disconnection between a person’s thoughts, memories, feelings, actions or sense of who he or she is. Emory will serve as the trial’s primary site led by clinical neuropsychologist Negar Fani, assistan...
Anderson selected as fellow of the American Academy of Political and Social Science Carol Anderson, Charles Howard Candler Professor of African American Studies, is one of five distinguished scholars being inducted as Fellows of the American Academy of Political and Social Science (AAPSS) in 2021. The AAPSS inducts a new cohort of Fellows each year, in recognition of contributions that advance science and deepen public understanding of human behavior and social dynamics. Anderson’s work focuses on public policy, particularly on how domestic and international policies intersect through the i...