June 2026 Newsletter

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University of Washington

Honors and Awards

Undergraduate students in several CNT faculty labs (Steve Pellmutter, Chet Moritz, Azadeh Yazdan-Shahmorad, Amy Orsborn, Kurt Weaver, Jeffrey Herron and Matt Reynolds) presented their research at the UW Undergraduate Research Symposium on March 15, 2026.

IEEE EMBC 2026 (July 26-30 2026; Toronto, Canada)
Neuro2026 (July 30-August 2, 2026; Kobe, Japan)
Annual Cognitive Computational Neuroscience Conference (August 3-6, 2026; New York, NY)
Bioelectronic Medicine Summit (September 28-29, 2026; New York, NY)
International Conference on NeuroRehabilitation (September 29-October 2, 2026; Seoul, South Korea)
International Spinal Cord Society (October 7-10, 2026; Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia)
World Congress for Neurorehabilitation (October 14-17, 2026; Daegu, South Korea)
Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting (November 14-18, 2026; Washington, DC)
North American Neuromodulation Annual Meeting (January 21-24, 2027; Las Vegas, NV)
IBRO World Congress of Neuroscience (September 13-16, 2027; Cape Town, South Africa)

CNT members Jeffrey Ojemann and Jeff Herron continue their work on the CorTec’s Brain Interchange™, a wireless brain-controlled interface system for stroke rehabilitation. Ojemann’s and Herron’s work is also discussed by a patient in the Tri-City Herald.

CNT Diversity Director Scott Bellman reflects on his 25 years working at DO-IT. DO-IT has also maintained a long collaboration with the CNT and its Executive Director/Education Director Eric Chudler.

Pham, M.T., de Leeuw, A., Burkhart, I., Klein, E and Goering, S. Why we need community-based participatory research (CBPR) in neuroethics, Neuroethics, 19, 15, 2026.
Canfield, R.A., Ouchi, T., Fang, H., Macagno, B., Smith, L.I., Scholl, L.R. and Orsborn, A.L. The spatiotemporal structure of neural activity in motor cortex during reaching, J. Neurosci., 20 May 2026, 46 (20) e1965252026.