Invited talk at Physiatry 2017
02/2017 – Prof. Awad is invited to give a talk at the 2017 Annual Meeting of the Association of Academic Physiatrists for the New Frontiers in Rehabilitation Robotics educational session.
Category: News and Events
Poster Presentation at Stroke Recovery Symposium
11/2016 – Prof. Awad presents a poster on the FastFES locomotor training program at the 2nd Annual Stroke Recovery Research Symposium, sponsored by the Spaulding Stroke Research and Recovery Institute and the New England Regional Coordination Center of the StrokeNet Trials Network. Stroke Symposium Poster
Exosuit project highlighted through collaborator’s award
11/2016 – Prof. Conor Walsh, director of the Harvard Biodesign Lab, is awarded a Rolex award for enterprise and the exosuit project is featured in news articles and videos. Congratulations, Conor! Also see Wyss Institute press release.
BME Senior Design Project
10/2016 – Prof. Awad partners with Prof. Thomas Szabo from Biomedical Engineering to co-advise a team of senior BME students in the development and testing of ultrasound-based rehabilitation technology with the potential to improve the treatment of individuals with neuromotor-based gait impairments.
New Publication
09/2016 – Our paper, Identifying candidates for targeted gait rehabilitation after stroke: better prediction through biomechanics-informed characterization has been published in the Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation!
New Students
09/2016 – The NRL welcomes five new undergraduate research scholars.
Invited Talk
09/2016 – Prof. Awad gives an invited talk on next generation rehabilitation robots at the 2016 Stroke Rehabilitation Symposium of the Barrow Neurological Institute in Phoenix, AZ. Barrow Robotics Symposium Brochure