Purdue-Led Team Gains $10M Grant
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As a subscriber you can listen to articles at work, in the car, or while you work out. Subscribe NowPurdue University researchers have secured a $10 million grant as part of a multi-institutional team. The SPARC funding from the National Institutes of Health will support the study of the stomach’s neural circuitry system. It will examine whether conditions such as diabetes or obesity can benefit from bioelectronic medicine.
Psychological Sciences Distinguished Professor Terry Powley and Professor of Biomedical Engineering Pedro Irazoqui are principal and co-principal investigators, respectively. Powley says "pharmaceutical therapies for chronic conditions can have side effects, and the NIH has coined a new term ‘electroceuticals’ as research programs explore localized technologies to address chronic conditions."
Irazoqui says "this NIH SPARC project will enable a new generation of electroceutical therapies by funding the combination of cutting edge engineering approaches from labs like professors Rickus, Robinson, Liu and mine, with the anatomical and physiological insights of a preeminent neuroscientist like professor Powley."
The rest of the team includes researchers from the University of Melbourne, University of Texas at Dallas, Indiana University and Purdue.
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