Coulter BME Researchers Join Institute for Neuroscience, Neurotechnology, and Society

Jeff Markowitz, assistant professor in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering, and his laboratory are working to understand the basics of movement to help people with diseases like Parkinson’s and Huntington’s. Markowitz’s lab developed injectable nanoparticles that can light up inside a mouse model to learn how each joint, ligament, and muscle moves independently. Eventually, this motion capture method could be applied to humans.  

Markowitz and his team are part of the Institute for Neuroscience, Neurotechnology, and Society (INNS), an interdisciplinary research institute launched in July. INNS brings together researchers across a wide range of disciplines to study how the brain and body work together. 

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