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Neural Engineering in Neurosurgery: Bridging Engineering to Clinical Practice

Award Number: T32NS147937
ORGANIZATION: NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS AND STROKE
OPDIV: NIH
AWARD CLASS: DISCRETIONARY
AWARD ACTIVITY TYPE: TRAINING/TRAINEESHIP
PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE START DATE: 07/01/2026
PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE END DATE: 06/30/2031

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Neural Engineering in Neurosurgery: Bridging Engineering to Clinical Practice - T32 Grant Application: “Neural Engineering in Neurosurgery: Bridging Engineering to Clinical Practice” Abstract We propose to build a new training program that will bring together neural engineers with neurosurgeons. Working together, program trainees will transform the practice of neurosurgery by creating new technologies. We will sponsor four postdoctoral fellows and four neurosurgery residents per year to pursue training in each others’ disciplines and collaborative research projects that bridge engineering to neurosurgery. Neural engineering, a discipline that combines bioengineering and neuroscience, can serve as a key source for innovation in neurosurgery. We hope to catalyze a new generation of researchers and doctors that can share a common language and together can drive innovation in clinical care. The University of Pittsburgh is a natural home for such a training program, because of the great strengths we already possess in neurosurgery, bioengineering, neuroscience, and computation. Our training program will comprise postdoctoral fellows in bioengineering and neurosurgery residents who join together to form a cohort. Our mentoring faculty consists of researchers and clinicians who are dedicated both to mentoring and to innovation. We have identified several areas of special opportunity for improving neurosurgical practice, and/or for leveraging neurosurgery to advance our basic understanding of brain function: epilepsy, stroke, tumors, chronic pain, speech pathologies, movement disorders such as dystonia and dysarthria, and sensory loss. Our trainees will partner to pursue in-depth projects under the joint mentorship of a clinician and a researcher. We envision “team science” as a key structural change that can catalyze future advances, and we wish to help create a generation of trainees that are comfortable in a team mode. The T32 will provide up to two years of support for these projects, with the understanding that further support will be garnered through other mechanisms. Research projects will be complemented by a course, attended by all trainees, where fundamentals are imparted along with domain-specific background material, and where trainees have the opportunity to cross-pollinate in the other discipline. This is the right time, and Pittsburgh is the right place, to create a unique training program that can transform the future of neurosurgical practice.


Issue Date FY	Funding FY	Legal Entity Name	Legal Entity Address	Legal Entity City	Legal Entity State	Legal Entity Zip Code	Legal Entity COUNTY	Legal Entity COUNTRY	Assistance Listing	Award Code	Budget Year	Action Date	Action Type	Action Amount

Issue Date FY: 2026 ( Subtotal = $380,145 )
2026	2026	UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH - OF THE COMMONWEALTH SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATION	4200 FIFTH AVENUE	PITTSBURGH	PA	15260	ALLEGHENY	USA	Extramural Research Programs in the Neurosciences and Neurological Disorders	000	1	7/1/2026	NEW	$380,145
														Subtotal = $380,145

Grand Total All Awards = $380,145

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Neural Engineering in Neurosurgery: Bridging Engineering to Clinical Practice

Award Number: T32NS147937

ORGANIZATION: NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS AND STROKE

OPDIV: NIH

AWARD CLASS: DISCRETIONARY

AWARD ACTIVITY TYPE: TRAINING/TRAINEESHIP

PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE START DATE: 07/01/2026

PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE END DATE: 06/30/2031

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