K99/R00 Pathway to Independence Award
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Institution
Columbia University,
New York City, NY
NINDS K99/R00 Awardee - January 2020
Karen Schroeder is a Postdoctoral Research Scientist in Neuroscience at Columbia University. Under joint mentorship from Mark Churchland and Larry Abbott, she will employ multiple computational approaches to understand the structure of neural population activity in motor cortex (M1) across many behaviors. She will then use that knowledge to create an intuitively controllable high performance brain-machine interface (BMI) system that can be applied to many movements, including locomotion. She received her Ph.D. in biomedical engineering from the University of Michigan, and earned her B.S. in biomedical engineering from Duke University.