Sheila Nirenberg

Sheila Nirenberg
Fields Neuroscience
Institutions Cornell University
Alma mater SUNY Albany
Harvard University
Notable awards MacArthur Award, Beckman Young Investigator Award, TED Talk, NYC BioAccelerate Prize
Website
physiology.med.cornell.edu/faculty/nirenberg/lab/

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"),[1][2][3][4] and new kinds of smart robots.[5][6] She is a recipient of a MacArthur “genius” award [7][8][9] and has been the subject of, or featured in, several documentaries for her technology for treating blindness.[10][11][12]

She is currently a professor at the Weill Medical College of Cornell University,[13] and the founder of two startup companies, Bionic Sight LLC (prosthetic devices) and Nirenberg Neuroscience LLC (smart robots, AI).[14]

References

  1. ↑ http://www.tedmed.com/talks/show?id=7217
  2. ↑ TED talks: http://www.ted.com/talks/sheila_nirenberg_a_prosthetic_eye_to_treat_blindness
  3. ↑ http://physiology.med.cornell.edu/faculty/nirenberg/lab/
  4. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=elO4BSHgoy4
  5. ↑ https://twitter.com/tedmed/status/738007300296847361
  6. ↑ https://www.nirenbergneuroscience.com/
  7. ↑ https://www.macfound.org/fellows/899/
  8. ↑ http://www.crainsnewyork.com/article/20130926/HEALTH_CARE/130929924/sheila-nirenberg-a-genius-with-vision
  9. ↑ https://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/25/arts/macarthur-genius-award-winners-named.html
  10. ↑ http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20141111-the-code-that-may-treat-blindness
  11. ↑ https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-04-05/this-bionic-eye-could-cure-blindness
  12. ↑ http://storyofsight.com/
  13. ↑ http://physiology.med.cornell.edu/faculty/nirenberg/lab/
  14. ↑ http://www.nirenbergneuroscience.com/


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