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We are excited to share that Paige Howell was recently awarded the ETH Silver Medal for her outstanding Master’s thesis, "Exploring Reorganisation of the Brainstem Following Spinal Cord Injury”. Congratulations Paige!

Congratulations on this fantastic achievement Dr. Ruddy! Her research uses brain-computer interfaces to better understand and ultimately improve brain function.

Congratulations to NCM Lab member Dr. Marija Markicevic on winning an ETH PhD Silver Medal for Outstanding Thesis for her doctoral work on ‘Causal effects of acute cell-specific neuromodulation on resting-state functional connectivity and brain dynamics’.

The Hemmi-Stiftung foundation has awarded the Research Award 2021 to NCM Lab Senior Scientist and Schulthess Klinik Senior Consultant in Neurology Dr Zina-Mary Manjaly. Congratulations, Dr Manjaly!

An independent committee rated excellence in presenting her current research: "Effects of auditory slow wave modulation on cardiovascular dynamics" at the annual SHZ Symposium, a Competence center of the University of Zurich. Stephanie’s PhD project is mentored by Dr. Caroline Lustenberger of the Neural Control of Movement Lab at ETH Zürich.

In November 2020, the team of researchers from Neural Control of Movement Lab, ETH Zurich, and School of Computer Science and Engineering, NTU Singapore, together with their tetraplegic pilot, competed in the Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) Race at the CYBATHLON 2020 Global Edition. 

Ingrid Odermatt received the 2020 Student Award of the Swiss Society of Biomedical Engineering (SSBE). In her master thesis she investigated the effects of embodiment and multimodal information on motor performance in immersive virtual reality. She could show that high levels of body ownership over a virtual body and congruence of information are associated with better performance. These findings may contribute to the development of virtual reality set ups in neurorehabilitation.

Listen in to the ETH podcast for some insight into the NCM Lab's CYBATHLON preparation. 

Congratulations to our PhD student Stephanie Huwiler. On the 13^th of December she was awarded the ETH medal for her outstanding Master’s thesis titled “Interaction of brain and heart activity during sleep” (supervisor: Dr. Caroline Lustenberger, tutor: Prof. Walter Karlen). In addition, she was awarded the Willi-Studer Prize for being the best student of her ETH Zurich Master’s degree programme. This is an outstanding achievement. We are proud and happy to have her on our team!

NCM scientists together with their collaborators from Nanyang Technological University Singapore will participate in the Brain-Computer Interface Race at CYBATHLON 2020 in Zurich. Euronews accompanied our team during a training session with the pilot Samuel Kunz, who suffers from severely impaired motor function. Kunz operates a digital race car by motor imagery. 

More exciting news from our lab: Andreea Cretu was awarded the Swiss Society for Neuroscience (SSN) travel fellowship. She will present her most recent results showing how motor resonance measured in primary motor cortex using transcranial magnetic stimulation is modulated by the reward associated with observed actions. Congratulations, Andreea!

Marija Markicevic attended the 5th Research Day of the Department of Health Sciences and Technology that was held on Tuesday, 4 December 2018. There she presented her PhD project which is about understanding the neural basis of macroscopic connectivity.

Ernest Mihelj attended the 5th Research Day of the Department of Health Sciences and Technology that was held on Tuesday, 4 December 2018. There he presented his PhD project which is about TMS neurofeedback to decode movement intentions for single fingers.

Charles Lambelet attended the 5th Research Day of the Department of Health Sciences and Technology that was held on Tuesday, 4 December 2018. There he presented the eWrist which is a wrist exoskeleton for home-based therapy after stroke.

NCM Lab members pitched a project for the Brain Hack Zurich which took place on 25-26 of October 2018.

Congratulations to Marija Markicevic for receiving ZNZ travel grant for PhD students. She will be attending SFN in San Diego where she will present her work on "Loss of inhibitory control causes network-specific functional hypoconnectivity: a DREADD-fMRI study in C57BL/6J and PV-Cre mice".

Andreea Cretu attended the 2018 edition of the Summer School in Computational Sensory-Motor Neuroscience (CoSMo), which took place between July 29 and August 12 at the University of Minnesota, USA. Together with 3 other participants, she completed a project on 'Deviations of friction estimation in intuitive physics' applying computational tools learnt during the school.

Congratulations to Rea Lehner for winning a Young Investigator Award from the European College of Sports Science at the annual congress in Dublin. She presented her recent work with the title “REWARD IMPROVES MOTOR PERFORMANCE BY MODULATING MOTOR NETWORK ACTIVITY”.

Congratulations to Andreea Cretu for receiving ZNZ travel grant for PhD students. She will be attending the Summer School in Computational Sensory-Motor Neuroscience (CoSMo 2018) at University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.

Dr. Valerio Zerbi and Prof. Nici Wenderoth's Chaos paper titled Structural connectome topology relates to regional BOLD signal dynamics in the mouse brain is among the most dowloaded papers in the journal in 2017.