NINDS K99/R00 Awardee - January 2017
Independent Position: University of Utah, Salt Lake City
Dr. Jan Kubanek is an Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City. He pursued his postdoctoral training in Neuroscience/Neural Engineering at Stanford University School of Medicine. His research hopes to elucidate how ultrasound activates neurons and determine a set of ultrasound parameters that stimulates neurons optimally and provide stimulus safety levels utilizing different model organisms. This work will provide a new tool for noninvasive stimulation of specific brain regions, and also helps to study the function of neural circuits in neurological disorders. He received his Ph.D. in biomedical engineering/neuroscience from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and MS in biomedical/medical engineering from Czech Technical University in Prague.