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BioMicroSystems Laboratory was founded in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department of Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH in August 2005 by Professor Pedram Mohseni. The research activities of the laboratory lie in the fields of biomicrosystems, implantable neuroprostheses, wireless brain-machine interfaces, microelectronics for neural engineering, and wireless integrated sensing/actuating systems. In particular, we aim to employ engineering techniques to investigate the function and manipulate the behavior of the nervous system in both electrical and chemical paradigms, with the ultimate goal of enabling the investigation of brain-behavior relationships in neurobiology and restoring human function via direct interactions between the nervous system and state-of-the-art engineered devices.

December 2017

  • Prof. Sudip Nag joins the BioMicroSystems Laboratory from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) – Kharagpur as a Visiting Research Scientist. Welcome, Sudip!

  • Shahab's second journal paper is accepted for publication in the Journal of Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing. Congratulations, Shahab!

  • BioMicroSystems Laboratory participates in the 2017 American Society of Hematology (ASH) Annual Meeting and Exposition in Atlanta, GA with one poster on the assessment of ClotChip for monitoring coagulation factor therapy in hemophilic children.

  • Asish Koruprolu joins the BioMicroSystems Laboratory from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) – Kharagpur for a 1-month training program. Welcome, Asish!

October 2017

  • Hossein's first journal paper is accepted for publication in the IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering. Congratulations, Hossein!

August 2017

  • Prof. Mohseni is appointed as an Associate Editor of the newly established IEEE Solid-State Circuits Letters.

  • Debnath's first journal paper is accepted for publication in the IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems Special Issue on Microfluidics Engineering for Point-of-Care Diagnostics. Congratulations, Debnath and Mike!

  • Reza's first journal paper is accepted for publication in the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems — Part II: Express Briefs. Congratulations, Reza and Fatemeh!

July 2017

  • Shahab's first journal paper is published in the IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering. Congratulations, Shahab!

  • Drs. Mohseni and Suster receive two new grants from the American Heart Association and the Cleveland Dept of Veterans Affairs Medical Center for clinical evaluation of the ClotChip.

May 2017

  • BioMicroSystems Laboratory participates in the 2017 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS) in Baltimore, MD with two papers. Congratulations, Reza, Fatemeh, and Hossein!

  • Prof. Mohseni delivers one of the CICCx talks entitled "Insights on Brain Sensing ICs" in Austin, TX at the invitation of the IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society.

  • Sagar Kumashi joins the BioMicroSystems Laboratory from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) — Kharagpur for a 2.5-month training program. Welcome, Sagar!

April 2017

  • BioMicroSystems Laboratory participates in the 2017 IEEE International Conference on Nano/Micro Engineered and Molecular Systems (NEMS) in Los Angeles, CA with one paper. Congratulations, Debnath!

  • Profs. Mohseni and Nudo sell the "Neuralink" trademark to Elon Musk (without realizing it!!). Read this story in MIT Technology Review!

January 2017

  • Profs. Mohseni and Nudo are awarded a second (continuation) United States patent on January 3 on methods and associated neural prosthetic devices for bridging brain areas to improve function.

December 2016

  • Mike's third journal paper is published in the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems — Part II: Express Briefs. Congratulations, Mike, Nick, and Debnath!

  • ClotChip is licensed by Case Western Reserve University to XaTek, Inc., a Cleveland start-up company to commercialize ClotChip for comprehensive assessment of hemostasis at the point-of-care.

  • ClotChip is prominently featured in the "Best of ASH" on December 5.

  • ClotChip is presented on December 3 in the ASH Press Program dedicated to a worldwide coverage of recent innovations in hematology.

  • BioMicroSystems Laboratory participates in the 2016 American Society of Hematology (ASH) Annual Meeting and Exposition in San Diego, CA with one poster on ClotChip — a microfluidic dielectric sensor for comprehensive assessment of hemostasis at the point-of-care.

October 2016

  • Prof. Mohseni delivers a tutorial on high-fidelity sensing and manipulation of brain neurochemistry at the 2016 IEEE Biomedical Circuits and Systems (BioCAS) Conference in Shanghai, China.

  • BioMicroSystems Laboratory participates in the 2016 IEEE Biomedical Circuits and Systems (BioCAS) Conference in Shanghai, China with three papers. Congratulations, Fatemeh, Reza, Hossein, and Shahab!

August 2016

  • Profs. Mohseni and Nudo receive a 3-year award from the US Army Medical Research and Materiel Command to continue their work on developing a closed-loop neuroprosthesis for functional recovery from traumatic brain injury.

  • BioMicroSystems Laboratory has three papers accepted to the 2016 IEEE Biomedical Circuits and Systems (BioCAS) Conference that will be held in Shanghai, China in October 2016. Congratulations, Shahab, Hossein, Fatemeh, and Reza!

  • BioMicroSystems Laboratory participates in the 2016 IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Conference (EMBC) in Orlando, FL with one paper. Congratulations, Debnath and Mike!

July 2016

  • Professor Mohseni is promoted to the rank of Full Professor effective July 1.

  • Shahab successfully defends his Ph.D. dissertation research on July 6, 2016. Congratulations, Shahab!

June 2016

  • BioMicroSystems Laboratory participates in the 2016 IEEE NEWCAS Conference in Vancouver, Canada with three papers. Congratulations, Mehran, Mike, and Hossein!

  • Bardia's second journal paper is published in the IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems.

May 2016

  • BioMicroSystems Laboratory participates in the 2016 IEEE Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS) in Montreal, Canada with three papers. Congratulations, Bardia, Reza, Fatemeh, Mike, and Nick!

  • Drs. Suster and Mohseni win a 1-year grant from the Case-Coulter Translational Research Partnership (CCTRP) Pilot Program for the development of a microfluidic dielectric coagulometer for point-of-care (POC) diagnostics.

  • Drs. Suster and Mohseni win a 1-year grant from the Steven Garverick Innovation Incentive Program of the Advanced Platform Technology (APT) Center in Cleveland, OH for the development of a microfluidic dielectric coagulometer for POC diagnostics.

April 2016

  • Shahab wins a student travel award to present his work at the 2016 Minnesota Neuromodulation Symposium. Congratulations, Shahab!

  • BioMicroSystems Laboratory participates in the 2016 Minnesota Neuromodulation Symposium with one poster.

March 2016

  • Professor Mohseni is selected to serve on the Imagers, MEMS, Medical & Display (IMMD) subcommittee of the IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC).

  • Bardia's "neurochemostat" chip receives coverage in the IEEE Spectrum Human OS Blog in an article entitled "Implantable Chip Measures and Adjusts Dopamine Levels in Mouse Brain".

February 2016

  • Professor Mohseni is nominated for the 2016 John S. Diekhoff Award for Distinguished Graduate Student Teaching at Case Western Reserve University.

December 2015

  • Mehran's second journal paper is published in the IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems.

November 2015

  • Mehran's second journal paper is accepted for publication in the IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems. Congratulations, Mehran!

  • BioMicroSystems Laboratory participates in the 2015 NIH-IEEE Strategic Conference on Healthcare Innovations and Point-of-Care Technologies for Precision Medicine in Bethesda, MD with one paper. Congratulations, Mike and Debnath!

  • BioMicroSystems Laboratory participates in the 2015 IEEE Sensors Conference in Busan, South Korea with one paper. Congratulations, Mike and Debnath!

August 2015

  • Bardia and Mehran join QualComm, San Diego, CA as Senior Engineers.

  • BioMicroSystems Laboratory participates in the 2015 IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Conference (EMBC) in Milan, Italy with four papers. Congratulations, Ali, Bardia, Shahab, and Debnath!

July 2015

  • Mike's paper is accepted for presentation in the 2015 IEEE Sensors Conference that will be held in Busan, South Korea in November 2015.

  • Mehran successfully defends his Ph.D. dissertation research on July 1, 2015. Congratulations, Mehran!

June 2015

  • Mehran's paper in the 2015 IEEE International Solid State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) is invited for a special issue of the IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems to be published in December 2015.

  • Ali's first journal paper is published in the IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems.

  • Bardia's second journal paper is accepted for publication in the IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems. Congratulations, Bardia!

  • BioMicroSystems Laboratory participates in the 2015 IEEE Symposium on VLSI Circuits in Kyoto, Japan with one paper. Congratulations, Bardia!

  • Four papers from the BioMicroSystems Laboratory are accepted for presentation in 2015 IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Conference (EMBC) that will be held in Milan, Italy in August.

  • Nok joins the Feinstein Institute for Medical Research, Manhasset, NY as a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow.

May 2015

  • BioMicroSystems Laboratory participates in the 2015 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS) in Lisbon, Portugal with two papers. Congratulations, Mehran and Shahab!

  • Ali successfully defends his Ph.D. dissertation research on May 11, 2015. Congratulations, Ali!

April 2015

  • Bardia successfully defends his Ph.D. dissertation research on April 24, 2015. Congratulations, Bardia!

  • Profs. Mohseni and Nudo are awarded a United States patent on April 14, 2015 on methods and associated neural prosthetic devices for bridging brain areas to improve function.

March 2015

  • Bardia's paper is accepted for presentation in the 2015 IEEE Symposium on VLSI Circuits that will be held in Kyoto, Japan in June. Congratulations, Bardia!

February 2015

  • Mehran's paper in the 2015 IEEE International Solid State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) is featured in EE Times on February 26, 2015. Read the article!

  • BioMicroSystems Laboratory participates in the 2015 IEEE International Solid State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) in San Francisco, CA with one paper and accompanying live demonstration. Congratulations, Mehran!

  • Shahab presents his work in the Student Research Preview (SRP) session of the 2015 IEEE International Solid State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) in San Francisco, CA.

  • Nok's second journal paper is published in the Journal of Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing.

January 2015

  • Nok's second journal paper is accepted for publication in the Journal of Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing. Congratulations, Nok!

  • Hossein Zamani joins the BioMicroSystems Laboratory from the Isfahan University of Technology, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Welcome, Hossein!

  • Reza Erfani and Fatemeh Marefat join the BioMicroSystems Laboratory from the K. N. Toosi University of Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering. Welcome Reza and Fatemeh!

  • Mehran's and Shahab's papers are accepted for presentation in the 2015 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS) that will be held in Lisbon, Portugal in May 2015.

November 2014

  • Nok successfully defends her Ph.D. dissertation research on November 24, 2014. Congratulations, Nok!

  • Shahab's work is selected for presentation in the Student Research Preview (SRP) session of the 2015 IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) that will be held in San Francisco, CA in February 2015. Congratulations, Shahab!

  • BioMicroSystems Laboratory participates in the 2014 IEEE Sensors Conference in Valencia, Spain with one paper. Congratulations, Mike!

October 2014

  • Prof. Mohseni is selected as the General co-Chair of the IEEE Biomedical Circuits and Systems (BioCAS) Conference that will be held in Cleveland, OH in October 2018. He currently serves as the Tutorials co-Chair of the 2015 edition of the conference that will be held in Atlanta, GA in October 2015.

  • Mehran's paper on a palmtop dielectric spectroscopy platform is accepted for presentation in the 2015 IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) that will be held in San Francisco, CA in February 2015. The paper is also selected for a live demonstration of the platform operation at the conference!

September 2014

  • Dr. Michael Suster is promoted to the rank of Senior Research Associate. Congratulations, Mike!

  • Debnath Maji joins the BioMicroSystems Laboratory from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur, Department of Electronics and Electrical Communication Engineering. Welcome, Debnath!

  • BioMicroSystems Laboratory participates in the 2014 IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC) in San Jose, CA with two papers. Congratulations Ali and Nok!

August 2014

  • Mehran's first journal paper is published in the August 2014 issue of the IEEE J. Solid-State Circuits (JSSC) as an invited paper from 2013 CICC.

  • BioMicroSystems Laboratory participates in the 2014 IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Conference (EMBC) in Chicago, IL with two papers. Congratulations Bardia and Shahab!

  • BioMicroSystems Laboratory participates in the 2014 IEEE Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems (MWSCAS) in College Station, TX with one paper. Congratulations Shahab!

June 2014

  • Nok's first journal paper is published in the June 2014 issue of the IEEE Trans. Biomed. Circuits and Systems.

  • BioMicroSystems Laboratory participates in the 2014 Neural Interfaces Conference (NIC) in Dallas, TX with three poster presentations. Congratulations Bardia, Shahab and Nok!

May 2014

  • Ali's first journal paper is accepted for publication in the IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems. Congratulations, Ali!

  • Brecken Blackburn joins the BioMicroSystems Laboratory from the electrical engineering department of Cornell University for a summer internship. Welcome, Brecken!

April 2014

  • Bardia's first journal paper is published in the April 2014 issue of the IEEE J. Solid-State Circuits (JSSC) as an invited paper from 2013 VLSI Circuits Symposium.

February 2014

  • Mehran presents his work in the Student Research Preview (SRP) session of the 2014 IEEE Int. Solid State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) in San Francisco, CA.

December 2013

  • Prof. Mohseni receives the 2013 EECS Mihajlo "Mike" Mesarovic Award for Extraordinary Impact.

  • Profs. Mohseni's and Nudo's work on developing brain prostheses for functional recovery after traumatic brain injury receives widespread coverage by the media center of the Department of Defense, Reuters, IEEE Spectrum, Kurzweil Accelerating Intelligence, Science Daily and numerous other news outlets. Read this story in KurzweilAI! Read this story in IEEE Spectrum!

  • Profs. Mohseni's and Nudo's work on developing brain prostheses for functional recovery after traumatic brain injury is published in the December 2013 issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) of the United States! See this video!

October 2013

  • Mehran's paper in the 2013 IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference is invited for a special issue of the IEEE J. Solid-State Circuits (JSSC) to be published in August 2014.

  • July 2013

    • Nok's first journal paper is accepted for publication in the IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems. Congratulations, Nok!

    • Prof. Mohseni receives a 2-year award from the NIH-NIDA to continue his work on research and development of technology for closed-loop dopamine sensing-based feedback control of neuromodulation in collaboration with Prof. Paul Garris.

    June 2013

    • Bardia's paper in the 2013 IEEE VLSI Circuits Symposium is invited for a special issue of the IEEE J. Solid-State Circuits (JSSC) to be published in April 2014.

    • Mehran's paper is accepted for presentation in the 2013 IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC) that will be held in San Jose, CA in September. The paper is also nominated for the Best Student Paper Award! Congratulations, Mehran!

    May 2013

    • Prof. Mohseni is nominated for the IEEE Distinguished Lecturer (DL) program by the Biomedical Circuits & Systems Technical Committee (BioCAS-TC) of the IEEE Circuits & Systems (CAS) society.

    March 2013

    • Bardia's paper is accepted for presentation in the 2013 IEEE Symposium on VLSI Circuits that will be held in Kyoto, Japan in June. Congratulations, Bardia!

    February 2013

    • BioMicroSystems Laboratory will attend the Microwave Week in Seattle, WA in June with one tutorial presentation (Prof. Mohseni), one RFIC paper (Ali), and one IMS paper (Mike)! Well done, everyone!

    • Shahab successfully passes the written part of the Ph.D. qualification exam!

October 2012

  • Bardia successfully passes the oral part of the Ph.D. qualification exam!

August 2012

  • Mehran and Ali successfully pass the written part of the Ph.D. qualification exam!

June 2012

  • Prof. Mohseni takes top honors with his business plan to commercialize brain injury recovery technology at the annual Medical Device Entrepreneur's Forum on June 15 in San Francisco, CA, in conjunction with the 58th annual ASAIO Conference. Read this story!

March 2012

  • Prof. Mohseni's work on traumatic brain injury is selected as one of the top 3 finalists nationwide for presentation at the annual Medical Device Entrepreneur's Forum on June 15 in San Francisco, CA, in conjunction with the 58th annual ASAIO Conference.

  • Prof. Mohseni receives a 2-year award from the NIH-NIBIB to continue his work on research and development of technology for neurochemical sensing and control in collaboration with Prof. Paul Garris.

  • Bardia successfully passes the written part of the Ph.D. qualification exam!

January 2012

  • Prof. Mohseni is selected to serve on the Technical Program Committee of the IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC) and Radio-Frequency Integrated Circuits (RFIC) Symposium.

  • Prof. Mohseni is appointed as an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering (TNSRE).

November 2011

  • BioMicroSystems Laboratory participates in the 2011 IEEE Biomed. Circuits and Systems Conf. in San Diego, CA with one paper and one tutorial presentation.

September 2011

  • Dr. Michael Suster joins the BioMicroSystems Laboratory as a Research Associate. Welcome, Mike!

  • Shahab Shahdoostfard joins the BioMicroSystems Laboratory from Sharif University of Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering. Welcome, Shahab!

  • Meysam's second journal paper is published in the IEEE Trans. Biomedical Engineering (TBME).

June 2011

  • Prof. Mohseni is promoted to the rank of Associate Professor with the award of tenure effective July 1.

  • Prof. Mohseni is elected a Senior Member of the IEEE.

  • Prof. Mohseni receives a 3-year award from the Kansas University Medical Center to develop microelectronic aids to bridge damaged spinal-cord pathways.

  • Kanokwan (Nok) successfully passes the oral part of the Ph.D. qualification exam!

  • Meysam's second journal paper is accepted for publication in the IEEE Trans. Biomedical Engineering!

April 2011

  • Professor Mohseni wins the 2011 Case School of Engineering Research Award!

  • Meysam's first journal paper is published in the April 2011 issue of the IEEE J. Solid-State Circuits (JSSC) as an invited paper.

  • Welcome to the newly redesigned webpage of the BioMicroSystems Laboratory!

March 2011

  • Dr. Meysam Azin becomes the second Ph.D. alum of the BioMicroSystems Laboratory! He will start his new position at the West Wireless Health Institute in San Diego, CA. Congratulations, Meysam!

January 2011

  • Meysam successfully defends his Ph.D. dissertation research on January 20, 2011.

September 2010

  • Profs. Mohseni and Nudo conduct a radio interview with Marketplace Tech Report, American Public Media's Marketplace Radio Program, on September 29, 2010.
    Listen to this story!

  • Prof. Mohseni's research related to traumatic brain injury is featured on the website of National Public Radio (NPR).
    Read this story!

  • Prof. Mohseni conducts a radio interview with Michael Bhardwaj from the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) on September 28, 2010.

  • Prof. Mohseni's research related to traumatic brain injury is featured in a press release by Case Western Reserve University.
    Read this story!

  • Profs. Mohseni and Nudo receive a 4-year award from the US Army Medical Research and Materiel Command to develop a brain-machine-brain interface for anatomical rewiring of cortical circuitry post traumatic brain injury.

  • BioMicroSystems Laboratory presents three papers in the 2010 IEEE Eng. Med. Biol. Conf. (EMBC) in Argentina!

August 2010

  • Mehran Bakhshiani joins the BioMicroSystems Laboratory from Sharif University of Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering. Welcome, Mehran!

  • Kanokwan (Nok) successfully passes the written part of the Ph.D. qualification exam!

July 2010

  • Meysam's paper in the 2010 IEEE VLSI Circuits Symposium is invited for a special issue of the IEEE J. Solid-State Circuits (JSSC) to be published in April 2011.

June 2010

  • BioMicroSystems Laboratory presents one paper in the 2010 IEEE VLSI Circuits Symposium in Hawaii and two papers in the 2010 Neural Interfaces Conference in California.

January 2010

  • Ali Ebrazeh and Bardia Bozorgzadeh join the BioMicroSystems Laboratory from the Electrical Engineering Department of Sharif University of Technology and University of Tehran, respectively!

December 2009

  • Dr. Masoud Roham becomes the first Ph.D. alum of the BioMicroSystems Laboratory! He will start his new position at the West Wireless Health Institute in San Diego, CA. Congratulations, Masoud!

  • Masoud's third journal paper is published in the December 2009 issue of the IEEE J. Solid-State Circuits (JSSC) as an invited paper.

November 2009

  • Masoud successfully defends his Ph.D. dissertation research on November 10, 2009.

October 2009

  • Prof. Mohseni's research related to monitoring brain neurochemistry is featured in a press release by Case Western Reserve University.
    Read this story!

September 2009

  • BioMicroSystems Laboratory presents two papers in the 2009 IEEE Eng. Med. Biol. Conf. (EMBC) in Minneapolis!

June 2009

  • Prof. Mohseni receives a 5-year CAREER award from the National Science Foundation to develop an integrated microsystem with ultra wideband communication capability for high-site-density brain monitoring in chemical and electrical paradigms.

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