Happy Fall and welcome back to campus!

We are excited to start the semester with a great line up of events!

We will be hosting Leonardo Cohen from NIH as our September seminar speaker this Friday, 9/6/24. Students and post-docs - there is still time to sign up to have lunch with Dr. Cohen. See below.

We also have a call out for our Fall student travel award! See below for details.

Mark your calendars for CARE Research Day 2025 - March 28th! Dr. Edward Chang of UCSF will be our keynote speaker.

Be sure to scroll below for more information!

Best,

Deanna (Dee) Wallace Donovan, Linda Noble and José del R. Millán

UT CARE Co-Directors

Undergraduate and Graduate Students !!

We are now taking applications for the

The James Sulzer Travel Award - Fall 2024.

Travel funds for a conference are available, up to $1600. Application deadline is September 18th, 2024.

See here for more details.

Congratulations to Arianna Monteira, recipient of the James Sulzer Travel Award - Summer 2024!

Arianna attended the ASB 2024 Conference in Madison, Wisconsin, where she presented her first-authored poster titled "How Transtibial limb loss influences the neuromotor and mechanical signatures of dynamic balance in older individuals."

UT CARE Fall Seminar Series

Dr. Leonardo Cohen, M.D.

Senior Investigator

Human Cortical Physiology and Neurorehabilitation

National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Stroke

"Neural substrates underlying early skill learning"

Friday, September 6th, 2024

NHB 1.720

11:00AM-12:30PM

Hosted by UT CARE Member, Sara Hussain

ADAPT Texas Meeting

Students! Learn more about engineering techniques while building adaptive toys for children with special needs.



Thursday, 9/19/24 6:30-7:30PM

ECJ 1.306

Save the Date!



CARE Research Day 2025 - Friday, March 28th

Keynote Speaker - Dr. Edward Chang, M.D.

Chair and Professor - Department of Neurosurgery

UC-San Francisco

More details to come soon!

Biomedical Engineering Seminars

UT CARE Faculty Member, Andrew Dunn, Ph.D.

Professor, UT Austin

Biomedical Engineering

In Vivo Microscopy of Microvasculature Following

Brain Injury

Thursday, September 12th, 2024 

3:30 pm - 5 pm 

BME 3.204

Deji Akinwande, Ph.D.

Professor, UT Austin

Electrical & Computer Engineering

Biosensors and Wearable Biomonitoring Sensors Based on Ultra-sensitive Atomic Materials

Thursday, September 26, 2024

3:30 pm - 5:00 pm 

BME 3.204

Other Events

NCMRR: MR3 Network Scientific Retreat

Catalyzing Transdisciplinary Research to Develop Innovative Rehabilitation Approaches with Lasting Impacts

September 19 and 20, 2024 Via Zoom

Click here for more information

Brain meets AI: Pioneering the Future of Neuroinformatics

INCF ASSEMBLY 2024

September 23 - 27, 2024, Austin,TX

San Jacinto Hall, 309 E 21st Street, Austin, TX 78705

More info here

Funding Opportunities

NICHD Notices and Funding Opportunities

• NOT-NS-24-075: Notice of Special Interest (NOSI): HEAL Initiative: Development and Translation of Diagnostic and Therapeutic Devices via Blueprint MedTech 
• NICHD 
• NOT-HD-24-027: Notice of Information: NICHD to Change from a Research Opportunity Announcement for ACT ENDO (Advancing Cures and Therapies and ending ENDOmetriosis diagnostic delays) to a Prize Competition Announcement 
• Multiple Institutes 
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NIH - NCMRR

The Community Champions for Disability Health Challenge, open to nonacademic 501(c)(3) organizations based in the United States, including advocacy, local community, and faith-based organizations. Entries are due November 1, 2024. 

NIH Notices and Funding Opportunities 

• NOT-OD-24-163: NIH’s Adoption of Common Forms for Biographical Sketch and Current and Pending (Other) Support by May 25, 2025  
• NIH 
• NOT-AG-24-028: Request for Information (RFI) on the National Institute on Aging (NIA) Strategic Directions for Research 
• National Institute on Aging  
• NOT-AR-24-019: Notice of Special Interest (NOSI): Supporting Research Using the Resources from the Osteoarthritis Initiative (OAI) 
• National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases  
• National Institute on Aging  
• RFA-AT-24-011: HEAL Initiative: NIH-DOD-VA Pain Management Collaboratory – Pragmatic and/or Implementation Science Demonstration Projects ((UG3/UH3) Clinical Trial Required) 
• Multiple Institutes 
• NOT-AT-24-052: Request for Information (RFI): Inviting Comments on Early Career Stage Training Programs to Support Capacity Building for Music and Health Research 
• National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH) 
• NOT-NR-24-011: Notice of Intent to Publish a Funding Opportunity Announcement for Advancing Health Equity through Interventions to Prevent and Address Housing Instability (R01 Clinical Trial Optional) 
• National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR) 

Other Funding Opportunities 

National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research

The NIDILRR—part of the Administration for Community Living (ACL) within HHS—recently posted its 2025 grants forecast, including four new forecasts, in the Grants.gov database. All forecasts are for ACL.

Select an opportunity from the following list to learn more:

• NEW Rehabilitation Engineering Research Centers (RERC) Program: RERC on Communication Technologies Forecast 1 
• NEW Rehabilitation Engineering Research Centers (RERC) Program: RERC on Rehabilitation Technologies for Children with Orthopedic Disabilities Forecast 1 
• NEW Rehabilitation Engineering Research Centers (RERC) Program: RERC on Universal Design Applications Forecast 1 
• NEW Rehabilitation Research and Training Center (RRTC) On Employment Among People Who are Blind or Have Low Vision Forecast 1 
• NEW Rehabilitation Research and Training Center (RRTC) on Employment Policy Forecast 1 
• NEW Rehabilitation Research and Training Center (RRTC) on Health and Function Among People with Serious Mental Health Conditions Forecast 1 

Visit Grants.gov and use the search terms NIDILRR or 93.433 for current and archived grant information. 

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