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Bright headshotMolly Bright, D.Phil. (Biography and CV)

Principal Investigator

 

 

Postdoctoral Fellows

 

Rachael Stickland

PhD, Cardiff University, 2019

 

 

Mark Hoggarth

DPT, Northwestern University

 

 

PhD Students

 

Kimberly Hemmerling

Biomedical Engineering, Northwestern University

 

 

Neha Reddy

Medical Scientist Training Program

Feinberg School of Medicine, Biomedical Engineering, Northwestern University

 

Kristina Zvolanek

Biomedical Engineering, Northwestern University

Advanced fMRI in children with unilateral brain injury

 

Kevin Schmidt

Brain, Behavior and Cognition, Psychology, Northwestern University

Member of Reber Lab, collaboration on Cognitive consequences of hypoxia

 

Jasmine Vu

Biomedical Engineering, Northwestern University

Member of Rad Lab, collaboration on fMRI after Deep Brain Stimulation

 

Stefano Moia

Visiting PhD student, La Caixa Fellow, Basque Center on Cognition, Brain, and Language

Multi-echo fMRI of neurovascular physiology

 

Undergraduate Students

 

Catherine Chen

BME ’21, Northwestern University

 

 

Jingxuan Gong

BME ’23, Northwestern University

Summer Undergraduate Research Grant, 2020

 

Harsh Khilwani

BME ’21, Northwestern University

 

 

Max Wang

BME ’22, Northwestern University

Summer Undergraduate Research Grant, 2020

 

Interested in joining our lab for BME 399 or 499 credit? Get in touch!

 

 

 

Doctor of Physical Therapy Students

Class of 2022

  • Alison Adaniya
  • Benjamin Carter
  • Kendall Fosse
  • William Lindstrom
  • Christopher Shaw

 

Collaborators

 

Dr. Cesar Caballero-Gaudes

Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language

 

 

Prof. Paul Reber

Cognitive Neuroscience of Learning and Memory

Psychology, Northwestern University

 

Prof. Milap Sandhu

Shirley Ryan Ability Lab

Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Northwestern University

 

Prof. Jules Dewald

Physical Therapy and Human Movement Sciences, Northwestern University

 

 

Prof. Laleh Rad

Biomedical Engineering and Radiology, Northwestern University

 

 

 

Past Members

 

Post-Doctoral

  • Ranga Deshpande, PhD (2019)

 

Doctoral

  • Yasser Falah, MBChB, MRCP, PhD – PhD, University of Nottingham, 2019
    • Developing clinical applications of ultra-high-field perfusion imaging
  • Elena Kleban, PhD – PhD, University of Nottingham, 2017
    • Quantifying venous oxygenation using Frequency Difference Mapping at 7T

 

Doctoral Rotation

  • Natalie Koh, PhD student, Northwestern University Interdepartmental Neuroscience program, WQ19
    • Evaluation of an automated pseudo-event detection approach to model HRF variability

 

Masters

  • Apoorva Ayyagari, MS Biomedical Engineering, Northwestern University, 2020
    • Understanding noise in spinal cord BOLD fMRI data with a breath-hold paradigm to investigate feasibility of studying vascular reactivity
  • Vineet Sharma, MS Biomedical Engineering, Northwestern University, 2019

 

Undergraduate

  • Ana Cornell – BME ’22 Northwestern University, 2019
    • McCormick Summer Undergraduate Research Award
    • Real-time feedback of hand-grip strength for fMRI studies in spinal cord injury
  • Aaron Shoemaker – BME ’19, Northwestern University, 2018
    • Design and development of the ANVILgrip – an MRI compatible hand-grip device
  • Navdeep Jabble – BMed Sci ’16, University of Nottingham, 2015-2016
    • Relating fatigue and cortical perfusion in Multiple Sclerosis