CIMIT Names 2011 Miles and Eleanor Shore Fellow

CIMIT is pleased to announce Wasim Malik, PhD, has been awarded the CIMIT Miles and Eleanor Shore Fellowship for 2011. Dr. Wasim is an Instructor in Anesthesia at Massachusetts General Hospital. Additionally, he is a faculty member of the Neuroscience Statistics Research Laboratory at MIT.

The award is given to an early career Harvard Medical School Faculty applicant who represents the CIMIT values of academic excellence. Career development awards recognize individuals who seek careers focused on near term impact on patient care, and whose philosophy embraces innovation and multidisciplinary collaboration.

Dr. Malik will receive up to $50,000 to undertake research in the highly interdisciplinary field of neural prosthetics which encompasses neuroscience, clinical research, electrical engineering, mathematics, and statistics. He will focus on designing a new generation of brain-machine interfaces to restore function in patients with limb loss or paralysis. He intends to develop robust neural prosthetics with considerably simpler signal processing which will have a high potential for transition from the laboratory to the clinic.   Dr. Malik’s mentor, Emery Brown, will supervise his training and research activities in neuromotor disability.