NTRAIN: Normalizing Timing of Rhythms Across Internal Networks of Circadian Clocks
Overview
For service members, medical professionals and shift workers, jarring disruptions to sleep schedules are an unavoidable reality. This circadian dysregulation hampers their ability to function in crucial moments and can have negative consequences for their long health and wellbeing. NTRAIN aims to decrease the effects of disruptive schedules by regulating circadian rhythms with carefully timed biologic cues. This project endeavors to create a bioelectric device that can first calculate a therapeutic dosing schedule from the sensed state of the circadian rhythm and a user defined sleep schedule goal, and then initiate precisely timed production of the calculated therapy from engineered cells housed in the device.
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PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATORS
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Omid Veiseh, Ph.D.
Faculty Director
Associate Professor of Bioengineering -
Jacob Robinson, Ph.D.
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
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Caleb Kemere, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
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Isaac Hilton, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Bioengineering
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Kaiyuan Yang
Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
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Research Technician
The Veiseh Lab in the Rice University Bioengineering department has an opening for a research technician position. Our lab utilizes molecular engineering and cellular and molecular biology in combination with advanced nano, micro, and macro biomaterial fabrication techniques, to develop platforms of cell therapy devices tailored for in vivo biochemical sensing and delivery of biological therapeutics.
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