Carolina-affiliated startup Pulvinar Neuro’s novel treatment for mental illness – a technology that uses closed-loop, non-invasive stimulation of brain waves – offers hope to a rising tide of patients and recently led to the company’s acquisition by medical device leader Electromedical Products International.
For decades, Rick Luettich, the director of the UNC Institute of Marine Sciences, has been building better systems to protect the coast from environmental hazards and extreme weather events.
As a Ph.D. candidate within the Piehler Lab at IMS, Anna Smiley’s work centers on using geographic information systems to track the changes in land cover in coastal regions. By calculating the nitrogen removal by soils across coastal landscapes, Smiley can measure water quality regulation.
Jamshaid Shahir’s area of research — a better understanding of the intricacies of how embryonic stem cells divide and the ramifications for what cells they turn into — is positioning him for a role in the sciences at the frontier of his discipline and for a career in computational biology.