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Houston Methodist, Rice launch neuroprosthetic collaboration
Center for Translational Neural Prosthetics and Interfaces to focus on restoring brain function after disease or injury.
Neurosurgery’s history of cutting diseases out of the brain is morphing into a future in which implanting technology into the brain may help restore function, movement, cognition, and memory after patients suffer strokes, spinal cord injuries and other neurological disorders.
Houston Methodist have forged a partnership to launch the Center for Translational Neural Prosthetics and Interfaces, a collaboration that brings together scientists, clinicians, engineers, and surgeons to solve clinical problems with neurorobotics.
“This will be an accelerator for discovery,” says center co-director Dr. Gavin W. Britz, chair of the Houston Methodist Department of Neurosurgery. “This center will be a human laboratory where all of us – neurosurgeons, neuroengineers, neurobiologists – can work together to solve biomedical problems in the brain and spinal cord. And it’s a collaboration that can finally offer some hope and options for the millions of people worldwide who suffer from brain diseases and injuries.