Name Sheila Nirenberg | ||
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Notable awards MacArthur Award, Beckman Young Investigator Award, TED Talk, NYC BioAccelerate Prize Alma mater University at Albany, SUNY, Harvard University | ||
Sheila nirenberg a prosthetic eye to treat blindness
Sheila Nirenberg is an American neuroscientist. She works in the field of neural coding, developing new kinds of prosthetic devices (devices that “talk to the brain in its own language"), and new kinds of smart robots. She is a recipient of a MacArthur “genius” award and has been the subject of, or featured in, several documentaries for her technology for treating blindness.
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- Sheila nirenberg a prosthetic eye to treat blindness
- Neuroscientist sheila nirenberg 2013 macarthur fellow macarthur foundation
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She is currently a professor at the Weill Medical College of Cornell University, and the founder of two startup companies, Bionic Sight LLC (prosthetic devices) and Nirenberg Neuroscience LLC (smart robots, AI).
Neuroscientist sheila nirenberg 2013 macarthur fellow macarthur foundation
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