A project jointly undertaken by scientists from ECE, the departments of Neurosurgery, and Biomedical Engineering, and the Mayo Clinic has received close to $1 million in a grant from the Minnesota Partnership for Biotechnology and Medical Genomics. The project is titled, “Magnetic Nanodevice Arrays for the Treatment of Neurological Diseases.” The funding will enable the team to develop an implantable magnetic nanodevice array with the ability to generate highly localized magnetic fields for neuromodulation.

The project will be led by Distinguished McKnight University Professor and Robert F. Hartmann Chair in Electrical Engineering, Jian-Ping Wang (ECE), and Prof. Kendall H. Lee of the Mayo Clinic. Other investigators on the team are Prof. Tay Netoff (Dept. of Biomedical Engineering), and Prof. Walter C. Low (Dept. of Neurosurgery). The grant is spread over 2 years, effective February 2020.