The Schiff Lab

Neural engineering, neurosurgery, epilepsy, Parkinsons Disease, wave mechanics, brain machine interfaces, EEG, electrical fields, and control theory.

Selected Recent Funding:

NINDS U01, "Endoscopic Versus Shunt Treatment Of Hydrocephalus In Infants", PIs Kestle, Holubkov, Kulkarni, Limbrick.
NIBIB R01, "CRCNS: Collaborative Research: State-Dependent Control For Brain Modulation", PI (multiple with Gluckman).
NIH Director's Transformative Award for Predictive Personalized Public Health (P3H): A Novel Paradigm To Treat Infectious Disease, PI.
NIH NICHD/Fogarty, "Neurocognitive outcomes and changes in brain and CSF volume after treatment of post-infectious hydrocephalus in Ugandan infants by shunting or ETV/CPC: a randomized prospective trial". PI (multiple with Warf and Kulkarni). A Phase III randomized clinical trial, ClinicalTrials.gov registration number NCT01936272.
The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research - Science for Global Development program NWO-WOTRO|. “A sustainable MRI system to diagnose hydrocephalus in Uganda”. Co-Investigator (site PI at Penn State).
5DP1HD086071 NIH Director's Pioneer Award for Control of the Neonatal Septisome and Hydrocephalus in sub-Saharan Africa. 04/24/15 – 01/31/21 Role: PI
NIH BRAIN Initiative, NEI: Implantable Brain Microelectromechanical Magnetic Sensing And Stimulation (MEMS-MAGSS), PI (with Tadigadapa).
1R01AI145057 NIH Director’s Transformative Award Predictive Personalized Public Health (P3H): A Novel Paradigm to Treat Infectious Disease. 9/5/2018 – 8/31/2023. Role: PI
2R01HD085853-07 Neurocognitive outcomes and changes in brain and CSF volume after treatment of post-infectious hydrocephalus in Ugandan infants by shunting or ETV/CPC: a randomized prospective trial. ClinicalTrials.gov registration number NCT01936272. 09/1/2021 – 06/30/2026. PI (multiple with Warf and Kulkarni)
1R01HD096693-01 Improving infant hydrocephalus outcomes in Uganda: Predicting developmental outcomes and identifying patients at risk for early treatment failure after ETV/CPC. 9/13/2018-6/30/2023 Role: Co-Investigator (PI Warf and Lin)
2R01EB014641 CRCNS: Collaborative Research: State-Dependent Control for Brain Modulation. 09/01/2019 – 05/31/2023, Role: PI (MPI with Gluckman)
1U01NS107486 NIH Neurological Sciences and Disorders K, Endoscopic versus Shunt Treatment of Hydrocephalus in Infants (ESTHI). 09/15/2019 – 08/31/2026. Role: Co-Investigator and Site PI at Penn State (PIs Holubkov, Kestle, Kulkarni, and Limbrick).