Rehabilitation Roundup for January 2018
Greetings!

We're starting the New Year off right, with our first CARE meeting on 1/19 now at 2pm (due to popular demand) and in a new venue, the brand new EER building, room EER 1.504, where we have two very interesting talks, one by Travis Vlantes who will discuss UT Athletics' research interest, and Lei Liew, Ph.D., O.T. from USC who is using EEG and virtual reality in rehab (starting at 3pm).
Best,

James Sulzer
Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Upcoming Events
CARE Talks
Travis Vlantes, MS, CSCS
Travis is the Director of Applied Sports Sciences at the UT Athletic Department and will be discussing the issues they would like to address and perhaps form collaborations.

Friday, January 19th, 2018
EER 1.504 2:00-3:00
Lei is an Assistant Professor in Biokinesiology at USC. She is going to speak about her research in stroke rehabilitation using a combination of brain imaging, virtual reality, and neuromodulation.

Friday, January 19th, 2018
EER 1.504 3:00-4:00
Dept of Kinesiology Faculty Candidate Talks
Peter Fino, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Researcher
Department of Neurology
Oregon Health & Science University
Monday, January 22
1:30 PM-2:30 PM
BEL 962

The long and winding road to understand how neurological injury affects locomotion

Hao-Yuan Hsiao, MS, MEng, Ph.D.
Post-doctoral research fellow
Department of Physical Therapy
and Rehabilitation Science
University of Maryland, Baltimore
Thursday, January 18
2:00 PM-3:30 PM
BEL 602B

Sagittal and frontal plane movements related to forward progression in individuals post-stroke

Announcements
Multimodal Neuroimaging Initiative
The MNI is proud to announce its new leader, Dr. Ben Zinszer. Dr. Zinszer received his PhD in Psychology at Penn State University, studying cross-language interaction in Chinese-English bilinguals. His current work uses fNIRS, fMRI, and EEG to explore word and category representations and their development in language learners. Ben recently published neural decoding tools for infant and adult fNIRS with his colleagues on TeamMCPA and is expanding this work here at the Multimodal Neuroimaging Initiative.
Clinical Motor Control conference at Penn State
The first Clinical Motor Control Conference to be held at Penn State from July 23-25, 2018. John Dingwell (former UT faculty) is one of the speakers.
CARE Research Day 2018
Save the Date: 4/13/18
EERC Mulva Auditorium
We've selected a date! We'll host the 3rd Annual CARE Research Day on the afternoon of Friday, April 13th, 2018. Our keynote speaker is Andy Hoffer, Ph.D. from Simon Fraser University. Dr. Hoffer's research involves neural interfaces using nerve cuff electrodes.

CARE Research day is a half-day symposium composed of a single keynote followed by a three hour poster session featuring CARE research from UT Austin and other institutions around Texas. The goal is to provide a forum for communication and encourage collaborations.
Interested in a grant review group?
If you'd like to join in, please contact me at james.sulzer@austin.utexas.edu. We're still trying to figure out our model.
Featured CARE Member Profile
Meet Li-Chen Lin, Ph.D. R.N.
Dr. Lin uses technology to facilitate healthy aging, with a focus on chronic conditions.
Relevant Funding Opportunities

• BRAIN Initiative: Biology and Biophysics of Neural Stimulation (R01 - Clinical Trials Optional)
National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke
National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health
National Eye Institute
National Institute on Aging
National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism
National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering
Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development 
National Institute on Drug Abuse
National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders
National Institute of Mental Health
Application Receipt Date(s): February 23, 2018, June 6, 2018, October 4, 2018, February 6, 2019, June 4, 2019, October 4, 2019, February 6, 2020, June 4, 2020, and October 6, 2020. 

• NINDS Faculty Development Award to Promote Diversity in Neuroscience Research (K01) - Clinical Trial Required
National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke
Application Receipt/Submission Date(s): Standard dates apply. 

• NINDS Faculty Development Award to Promote Diversity in Neuroscience Research (K01) - Clinical Trial Not Allowed
National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke
Application Receipt/Submission Date(s): Standard dates apply. 

• Promoting Research in Basic Neuroscience (R01)
National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke
Application Receipt/Submission Date(s): Standard dates apply.

• TREAT Pilot Grants: Abstract due, 12 Feb 2018, Proposal due 1 March 2018.
TREAT has a two-phase application procedure for pilot grants. Abstracts are reviewed on a revolving basis to determine if the product falls within TREAT‘s expertise and mission. If accepted, applicants are then asked to complete a more comprehensive proposal that will be assessed by a multidisciplinary panel of technical, business, and clinical experts during one of our triannual review sessions. To learn more and to apply:  http://treatcenter.org/application/

• PA-18-343 “Academic Research Enhancement Award (R15 – Clinical Trial Required)”
Applicants who wish to seek R15 (AREA grant) support from NICHD for research involving a clinical trial in one of NICHD’s priority topics should use this FOA if their research project is not relevant to another active FOA in which NICHD participates. This is a joint FOA with NIDCD, NIBIB, and NIMH, and applications must involve a clinical trial in order to be eligible for this FOA. R15 applications for non-trial research may be submitted to the new “parent” R15 FOA which will not allow clinical trials.
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CARE would like to thank the Cockrell School of Engineering for their generous support