NeuroTechnology research cluster

Illustration of a neuroscience lab in the Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering Building, with researchers at shared desks and computers around a giant spine, a wall-sized brain diagram, neurons, and an MRI scanner, plus people using a wheelchair and a cane.
October 13, 2026
Nerve center: Inside the ISEB’s NeuroTechnology research cluster at Case Western Reserve
Researchers who have spent decades restoring individuals’ movement, sensation and function are moving in to drive further solutions to neurological conditions
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September 23, 2026
Where problems are solved: Get to know the new Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering Building at Case Western Reserve University
This story is the first in a series introducing the research, people and building that will define Case Western Reserve’s next chapter of discovery. Over the coming weeks, we’ll go inside each of the seven research clusters and the resources that make the work possible. When the Interdisciplinary…
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February 20, 2025
2024 African American Alumni Association: Distinguished Academic Award: Abidemi Bolu Ajiboye, PhD
It’s easy to take the sense of touch or the ability to move for granted, but when a brain injury suddenly robs someone of the connection that comes with holding a loved one’s hand or the ability to simply grasp a cup of coffee, the absence of what is often so basic can be devastating. Abidemi…
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January 16, 2025
Four Case School of Engineering faculty receive highest honor from U.S. government
Case Western Reserve University researchers receive Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers
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September 20, 2023
CWRU to honor four Faculty Distinguished Research Award winners during Innovation Week
Of the many traits that unite members of the Case Western Reserve University community, one is perhaps the most inspiring: an innovative spirit. During Innovation Week, taking place Sept. 26–29 this year, that spirit will be celebrated with a full slate of events.Among the festivities will be the…
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March 29, 2023
CBS 60 Minutes featured research by CWRU biomedical engineers Dustin Tyler, Bolu Ajiboye to restore sense of touch for amputees and people with paralysis
On March 26, the CBS News program 60 Minutes featured groundbreaking work led by Case Western Reserve University researchers Dustin Tyler and A. Bolu Ajiboye—biomedical engineering pioneers who are bringing a renewed sense of touch to amputees and people with paralysis, using neuroprosthetics.If…
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October 05, 2022
National Institutes of Health awards $15.75M to research team led by Case Western Reserve University and Duke University to map vagus nerve—body’s ‘super highway’ for controlling major organ functions
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded a $15.75 million contract to researchers led by Case Western Reserve and Duke universities to accelerate development of therapeutic devices that improve chronic medical conditions. The contract is within the NIH’s Stimulating Peripheral…
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August 28, 2019
Dominique Durand, pioneer in neural research, understanding of epilepsy, named Distinguished University Professor
Maybe an answer to the vexing neurological mysteries of epilepsy will come to Dominique Durand during his preferred thinking time: on his 7-mile bicycle commute from his home in Shaker Heights to Case Western Reserve University.Or maybe the critical bioengineering breakthrough Durand desires…