Current projects

Figure 1. Ongoing research projects at the Neurophysiological Imaging and Modeling Laboratory (NIML).

NIML conducts research supported by federal, foundation and corporate sponsors that include: NIH, NASA, Idaho Space Grant, UNLV Clinical Translational Research Network, American Syringomyelia and Chiari Alliance Project (ASAP), Voyager Therapeutics, University of Idaho and others. Ongoing funded research projects within the NIML are listed below.

Medical Devices

• Hydrodynamic Simulator for Brain Therapeutic Development

Intrathecal Drug and Gene Vector Delivery

• MR Measurement and Computational Simulation of Intrathecal Drug Dispersion in Non-human Primates

Neurodegenerative Disease

• MRI-based Biomarkers for Characterization of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
• MRI-based Subject-specific Brain Strain and Stress Mapping
• Advanced Ocular and Brain Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Astronauts Following Long Duration Space Flight
• VIIP Scholar

Chiari malformation and Hydrocephalus

• Connectomic Mapping of the Human Brain With Chiari Malformation

Art Science

• Visualizing Science