Ernest E Roth Professor. Bio-Integrating Optoelectric Neural Interface & Cybernetics Lab @ University of Pittsburgh, Department of Bioengineering
Pittsburgh, PA
Joined October 2015
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Grateful for this unexpected feature. I still have imposter syndrome days... I thought that was supposed to en be after tenure?
Check out this wonderful feature about Associate Professor Takashi Kozai's journey through both biology and engineering fields, written by @elainevitone. news.engineering.pitt.edu/po…
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Congratulations to Payton Bechefsky, a first-year PhD student; Casey Cargill, Ritesh Shrivastav, and Vanshika Singh, second-year PhD students; and Addianette Segarra Negrón, a first-year master’s student, on receiving @NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program awards.
100,000 people signed a petition to save Mass Effect in 48 hours.
I keep thinking about that number. The brain implants in that game aren’t science fiction anymore. I work on the real ones.
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100,000 people showed up for the game. I’d take a fraction of that for the thing the game is about.
Call your rep at (202) 224-3121. Ask them to fund the NIH and NSF and keep politics out of peer review.
More on why these implants fail: bioniclab.substack.com/s/why…
I support replacing animal testing where we can. I also study why we can't yet. The FDA just took a step that treats the replacement as closer than it is.
Cut the animal work now, betting these methods will someday integrate, and you lose the ground truth they are measured against. New approach methods deserve funding. They are not yet ready to replace the living animal.
Comment by Dec 7, docket FDA-2026-N-5347 at regulations.gov.
The rule: federalregister.gov/d/2026-1…
I've written this fall on why neural implants fail and the biology you need live animals to see. The series: bioniclab.substack.com/s/why…
One day left to comment. NIH wants to hide the peer review score, not just from applicants, but from the program officers and councils who decide what gets funded. The comment window closes tomorrow, October 13.
A grant at the 2nd percentile and a grant at the 24th percentile get the same label under this plan. A program officer choosing between them can no longer see which grant the panel ranked higher. Remove the score, and the choice still gets made, where no one can watch it.
Comment before tomorrow, October 13. Say the score should stay visible, to applicants and to the people who decide. Five minutes. A visible score is how everyone checks everyone.
grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/…
#NIH #PeerReview #ScienceFunding #Transparency