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Ed Boyden

 
Assist. Professor - McGovern Institute
 
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Company Name : McGovern Institute
 
Company Website : web.mit.edu/mcgovern
 
Company Address : 77 Massachusetts Ave.
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Assist. Professor - McGovern Institute
 
Ed Boyden Biography :

Ed Boyden invents and applies tools for the analysis and engineering of brain circuits in humans and research animals. He is developing new strategies for systematically repairing brain pathologies, such as epilepsy, anxiety, and Parkinson's disease, and also for augmenting cognition in diseases like Alzheimer's. His research integrates nanotechnological, molecular, optical, and other technologies into interfaces for the precise control of neural circuit dynamics and function. He and his colleagues have created a genetically targeted way to activate and inactivate neurons using millisecond-timescale pulses of light. This innovation is now in widespread use.

Dr. Boyden became an Associate Member of the McGovern Institute for Brain Research in July 2007. In 2006, he joined the MIT Media Lab as a visiting scientist, where he is now an Assistant Professor (jointly with the Department of Biological Engineering). He received a Ph.D. in Neuroscience from Stanford University in 2005. He holds a double B.S. in Physics and Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and a M.Eng. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT. In 2006 he was named one of the world's top 35 innovators under age 35 by Technology Review magazine. In 2007, he received a Wallace H. Coulter Early Career Award to develop new approaches for treating epilepsy and Parkinson's disease.

 
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