Please join us in congratulating Dr. Dena Shahriari, who is the recipient of a VCHRI 2024 Innovation and Translational Research Award. Dr. Dena Shahriari is a Member of the ATM, and an Assistance Professor within the Department of Orthopaedics and the School of Biomedical Engineering.
These awards support investigators who are putting new knowledge into practice, implementing research outcomes and turning discoveries into commercial opportunities.
Through the study Regenerative interfaces for advanced upper limb prosthetics, Dr. Shahriari is developing a neural interface that enables relaying information from the cross-section of a person’s nerve, thus enabling a wider range of neural input and output via neural recording and electrical stimulation. The development of such technology could have exciting implications regarding the ability for information sharing between an individual’s own neurons and their prosthetic. This would be of particular benefit for those with upper limb prosthetics, which often lack the ability to translate sensations in a way that would make them functional.
Other Members of the ATM who have received VCHRI Innovation and Translational Research Awards in previous years include Dr. Ryan Flannigan (2023) and Dr. Shannon Kolind (2018),
The other recipients of the 2024 awards are Dr. Peter Black, Dr. Naisan Garraway, Dr. Emilie Joos, Dr. Dirk Lange, Dr. Julia Naso, Dr. Karen Sherwood, and Dr. Brian Grunau. Summaries of each recipient project and the announcement of the award can be found here on the VCHRI website.