Rehabilitation Roundup for October 2019
Greetings!

Happy Fall!!

This month, there are several exciting CARE-related talks, including our Fall Seminar Series speaker, Dale Corbett. See below for more details.

Also, Texas Aging and Longevity Center will host a talk by UT CARE Member Robin Hilsabeck and UT CARE Member Jose Milan will give Neurosurgery Grand Rounds this month. See below for more details.

Please advertise our rehab-related open faculty positions at UT (see below)!

Find potential grant opportunities (with easy-to-click links) below as well.
Best,

Linda Noble and James Sulzer
CARE Co-Directors
CARE Events
CARE Fall Seminar Series
Stroke: From Cellular to Preclinical to clinical models

“Optimizing Stroke Rehabilitation: When, How Much,
Who and What?”

Dale Corbett, PhD

Professor, University of Ottawa
Scientific Director & CEO of the Heart and Stroke Foundation Canadian Partnership for Stroke Recovery

Friday, October 25, 2019
1:00pm-2:30pm
SEA 4.244 
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Grad students and Post-docs: Get valuable time and scientific insight (and free lunch!) with Dr. Corbett. Must sign up! Limited space.
CARE-Related Events
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The Texas Aging and Longevity Center will host Dr. Robin Hilsabeck (UT CARE Member).

"Unraveling the Role of Stress and Immune Function in Dementia Risk".

Wednesday, October 30th, 2019
12PM-1PM
RLP 1.302E 
Neurology Grand Rounds Speaker Series
Every week Dell Medical School's Department of Neurology has a featured speaker as part of their Grand Rounds series.

See below and click on links for more details

Time: 7:30am-8:30am; Place: UFCU Room – Dell Seton Medical Center
1500 Red River St, Austin, TX 78701

October Speakers:



10/29/19: TBA
Other UT Relevant Events
Relevant News
Click here for more info
UT School of Nursing
Aging and Health Informatics Conference

December 11, 2019

Click here for more information
SAVE THE DATE!
Biophotonics in Exercise Science, Sports Medicine, Health Monitoring Technologies, and Wearables

The Moscone Center
San Francisco, California, United States
1 - 6 February 2020
Looking ahead...
UT Faculty Positions - Please get the word out!!
The University of Texas at Austin has four open faculty positions related to rehabilitation research:
 
1) The Department of Kinesiology and Health Education is looking for faculty at the Asst./Assoc. level in the area of biomechanics and neuromuscular control of movement 

2) The Department of Biomedical Engineering is looking for faculty at the Asst. level in the area of rehabilitation engineering, neural prosthetics and/or neural interfaces. 

3,4) The Department of Mechanical Engineering has *two* open positions. One specifically in the area of robotics (open rank), and the other including robotics (Assoc./Full level).
 
All of these positions can involve joint appointments at UT's new Dell Medical School depending on fit. Other environmental support organizations include the UT Robotics consortium and UT's rehabilitation research consortium, CARE.
 
All applications are due by Nov 1. 
Funding Opportunities-
Click on links below for more info


up to $80,000
Internal deadline Nov 13th, 2019





NIH-RELATED GRANTS:

16 Oct 2019


PAR-19-344)
National Institute of Mental Health
Application Receipt Date(s): March 10, 2020;

Letter of Intent: November 16, 2019
Application Due Date(s)
December 16, 2019.

Letter of Intent: Dec 30, 2019

Letter of Intent: Dec 30, 2019

Letter of Intent: October 25, 2019
Have news you'd like to share? Papers, funding announcements, events?
For more information, please see links below e
CARE would like to thank the Cockrell School of Engineering and the Office of the Vice President for Research for their generous support