July 2025 Newsletter

A CNT Monthly Newsletter

July 2025

HONORS AND AWARDS

Congratulations to SDSU CNT member Amir Alimohammad who was recently awarded a three-year National Science Foundation grant titled “SHF: Small: A Ubiquitous Brain-Computer Interface for Supplementing Cognitive and Motor Functions.”
Congratulations to UW graduate student Noah Stanis (lab of UW CNT member Azadeh Yazdan) who received a UW Department of Bioengineering Excellence in Research Award.

UPCOMING EVENTS

NeuroAI (July 30-31, 2025; Allen Institute, Seattle, WA; register by July 15, 2025)
Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (December 2-7, 2025; San Diego, CA)
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 (March 7-10, 2026; Vancouver, BC, Canada)

CNT IN THE NEWS

CNT co-director Chet Moritz discusses how his work in Transcutaneous Spinal Stimulation (TSS) contributed to the success of ONWARD Medical’s Arc-EX device.

NEW CNT PUBLICATIONS

Ramadan, M., Tang, C., Watters, N. and Jazayeri, M. Computational basis of hierarchical and counterfactual information processing. Nat. Hum. Behav. 2025 Jun 11. doi: 10.1038/s41562-025-02232-3.
Pierce, A.F., Shupe, L., Bloch, J., Fetz, E. and Yazdan-Shahmorad, A. Flexible modeling of large-scale neural network stimulation: electrical and optical extensions to The Virtual Electrode Recording Tool for EXtracellular Potentials (VERTEX). J. Neurosci. Methods. 2025 Jun 13:110514.
Ivan Brown, A., MacDuffie, K.E., Goering, S. and Klein, E. The “wheels that keep me goin’”: invisible forms of support for brain pioneers. Neuroethics. 2025 Apr;18(1):21. doi: 10.1007/s12152-025-09593-6.