October 2025 Newsletter

University of Washington

Honors and Awards

Congratulations to Ali Alattar, a University of Washington bioengineering undergraduate student in the lab of CNT faculty member Azadeh Yazdan, who received a 2025-2026 Washington Research Foundation Fellowship.
Congratulations to Felix Schwok, a UW graduate student in the lab of Azadeh Yazdan, who received the IEEE Brain Discovery and Neurotechnology Best Poster Award.

Upcoming Events

People looking at posters during a conference.

Bridging Scales in Neurotechnology: Integrating In Vitro and In Vivo Neurophysiological Models for Clinical Translation, Gordon Research Seminar, February 7-8, 2026 (Lucca, Italy)
Precision Neurotechnology Advances and Neuroethical Implications of their Clinical Implementation, Gordon Research Conference, February 8-13, 2026 (Lucca, Italy)
Cognitive Neuroscience Society 2026 Annual Meeting, March 7-10, 2026 (Vancouver, B.C., Canada)
FENS Forum 2026, July 6-10, 2026 (Barcelona, Spain)

CNT in the News

CNT co-director Rajesh Rao comments in Rolling Stone (September 13, 2025) about the importance of embedded neuroethicists in brain-computer interface work at Neuralink.

Neurostimulation technology developed by UW CNT members Rajesh Rao, Jeffrey Ojemann, Eb Fetz, Chet Moritz and Jeffrey Herron is now being used by Panaxium Research Inc. to restore lost motor function in people who have suffered a stroke and traumatic brain injury.

CNT emeritus faculty member Howard Chizeck comments in Nature (September 18, 2025) about new noninvasive technology to assist people with multiple sclerosis and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.

New CNT Publications

Sahasrabudhe, A., Cea, C. and Anikeeva, P. Multifunctional bioelectronics for brain-body circuits, Nat. Rev. Bioeng., 3:465-484, 2025.
Bryan, M.J., Schwock, F., Yazdan-Shahmorad, A. and Rao, R.P.N. Temporal basis function models for closed-loop neural stimulation, J. Neural Eng., Sept. 4, 2025.
Samejima, S., Shackleton, C., Malik, R.N. Hosseinzadeh, A., Rempel, L., Phan, A-D., Williams, A., Nightingale, T., Ghuman, A., Elliott, S., Walter, M., Krogh, K., Berger, M., Lam, T., Sachdeva, R. and Krassioukov, A.V. Multi-system benefits of non-invasive spinal cord stimulation following cervical spinal cord injury: a case study, Bioelectron. Med. 11, 20, 2025.

Job Opportunities

Assistant Professor, Neuroscience, University of Lethbridge (Lethbridge, Canada)
Scientist I – Neuromodulation and Neural Circuit Computation, Allen Institute (Seattle, WA)
Postdoctoral Fellow, Translational Neuroengineering and Neuroscience Laboratory, Dept. Neurosurgery, University of Maryland (Baltimore, MD)
Assistant Professor, Neurobiology & Behavior, Stony Brook University (Stony Brook, NY)
Assistant Research Professor, Network Neuroscience, University of Notre Dame (South Bend, IN)
Department Chair, Dept. Biomedical Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison (Madison, WI)