{"id":93498,"date":"2020-08-12T09:53:39","date_gmt":"2020-08-12T13:53:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/?p=93498"},"modified":"2024-01-04T14:48:06","modified_gmt":"2024-01-04T19:48:06","slug":"ddn-1-1m-dod-grant-opens-door-for-wright-state-neuroimaging-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2020\/08\/12\/ddn-1-1m-dod-grant-opens-door-for-wright-state-neuroimaging-center\/","title":{"rendered":"Dayton Daily News: $1.1M DoD grant opens door for Wright State neuroimaging center"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Assaf Harel, left, associate professor of psychology and a cognitive neuroscientist, and Matthew Sherwood, a research engineer in the Department of Biomedical, Industrial and Human Factors Engineering, successfully applied for funding to acquire an MRI scanner.<\/p><\/div>\n

The Department of Defense has awarded Wright State University a $1.1 million grant to purchase a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scanner.<\/p>\n

The new grant paves the way for an on-campus Joint DoD-WSU Center for Neuroimaging and Neuro-Evaluation of Cognitive Technologies, where the MRI will be housed, Wright State said.<\/p>\n

The DoD provided the grant for purchase and installation of a 3 Tesla MRI scanner, to be anchored at the planned center, WSU said.<\/p>\n

Today, researchers at Wright State and the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) must pay to use off-campus MRI scanners, including a 3 Tesla MRI at Dayton Children\u2019s Hospital, Wright State said.<\/p>\n

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The funding was provided through a competitive Defense Department program supporting academic research infrastructure, the university said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cThe long-term goal of this program is to further Wright State\u2019s collaboration with the Department of Defense and become a leader for neuroscience research,\u201d the university said in an announcement Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n

\u201cAcquisition of this MRI will provide a unique benefit to researchers across Wright State\u2019s campus, the surrounding community and our DoD partners,\u201d Brian Rigling, dean of Wright State\u2019s\u00a0College of Engineering and Computer Science<\/a>, said in the WSU release. \u201cOpportunities like this have only been made possible through Wright State\u2019s close collaborations, both in research and education, with Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.\u201d<\/p>\n

The grant application was written by Matthew Sherwood, a research engineer in the WSU\u00a0Department of Biomedical, Industrial and Human Factors Engineering<\/a>, and Assaf Harel, an associate professor of\u00a0psychology<\/a>\u00a0and a cognitive neuroscientist.<\/p>\n

\u201cBy having the equipment here we will be able to write more grant requests and be more competitive in these requests,\u201d said Sherwood, who will serve as executive director of the new center.<\/p>\n

The MRI scanner will be installed in the Neuroscience Engineering Collaboration Building, a process that will take about six months.<\/p>\n

The machine weighs about six tons and vibrates when it produces its high-intensity magnetic fields, so it will likely be placed on the ground floor.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am super excited about this,\u201d Harel said. \u201cAn MRI scanner that is dedicated to research will boost neuroscience research across campus and bolster collaborations between Wright State, AFRL and other DoD and academia partners who will now have easy and affordable access to a state-of-the-art scanning facility.\u201d<\/p>\n

The MRI scanner will be available around the clock to Wright State researchers, including faculty and students, as well as Air Force and Navy researchers from Wright-Patterson.<\/p>\n

The university intends to charge users a service fee, to cover operational costs.<\/p>\n

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