2022 Year of Neuromodulation Symposium
We reported in last year’s Year in Review on the brainSTIM Center’s partnership with the Mahoney Institute for Neurosciences (MINS) to host the “MINS/brainSTIM Year of Neuromodulation”. The year-long event provided an opportunity to engage global leaders in the field of neuromodulation as invited speakers, host symposia that highlighted cutting-edge advances in brain stimulation, and to showcase the outstanding work being done at the University of Pennsylvania.
The grand finale of the MINS/brainSTIM Year of Neuromodulation was the 37th Annual MINS Symposium held on April 6, 2022, organized by both MINS and the brainSTIM Center. The full day symposium was the culmination of the Year of Neuromodulation and was a packed day of very exciting presentations and posters.
The day kicked off with the Adler Lecture given by Alvaro Pascual-Leone, MD, PhD, from Hebrew SeniorLife, Harvard Medical School, and a member of brainSTIM’s External Advisory Board, with a talk entitled “Promoting Brain Health and Addressing Brain-Related Disabilities”. Maryam Shanechi, PhD, from the University of Southern California was the Rising Star Award recipient and was presented with a framed certificate along with a $10,000 prize. Her lecture that followed the presentation was “Next-Generation Brain- Machine Interfaces to Realize Personalized Neuromodulation.”
The day also included minisymposias chaired by brainSTIM faculty members, Flavia Vitale, PhD, and Desmond Oathes, PhD, and included talks by brainSTIM faculty Casey Halpern, MD, and additional faculty, post- doctoral fellows, and research associates from UPENN. The event finished with poster awards and our final named lecture, the Sprague Lecture, given by Warren Grill, PhD, from Duke University entitled “Closed-Loop Brain Stimulation”.
The day was well attended and was an outstanding way for brainSTIM scientists to connect with preeminent leaders in the field of brain stimulation, present their own innovative research, and elevate interest in neuromodulation within the Penn academic community and beyond.