Github and Wiki Now Live!
The CARSS Official Github and Wiki are now live and available to the public! These sites will be updated regularly as our technologies continue developing and more information is shared by the teams. If you would like to ask questions or raise concerns, please do so by emailing us or joining in the discussions forum on our Github!
The Second Annual CARSS Webinar
May 7th, 11am-1pm PST
CARSS hosted its second annual CARSS Webinar on May 7th from 11am-1pm PST. Please click the link above to catch up on presentations we gave and the new progress we’ve made on the OpenNerve Platform! If you have questions, ideas, or would like to participate in any capacity, feel free to start a discussion here!
Below are the slides from each presentation:
4 – Microfabricated Nerve Cuff
Important Announcement: The OpenNerve Platform
The CARSS team is thrilled to unveil the official name for our open-source neuromodulation system platform: OpenNerve! We take pride in the advancements we’ve achieved with OpenNerve and the anticipated growth of CARSS in the future. Stay tuned to witness the ongoing developments of OpenNerve by following our journey!
Minnesota Neuromodulation Symposium – April, 2024
SPARC Phase II PI Meeting – April, 2024
CARSS joined The National Institutes of Health and several other teams at the SPARC.science Phase II PI Meeting at the University of Minnesota! Here’s our Center Director, Sahar Elyahoodayan, Ph.D presenting an overview of our OpenNerve platform, as well as developmental and animal studies updates.
Quentin Rezard, a member of the Meng lab, received a travel award and highlighted the peripheral nerve cuff he’s been developing.
American Physiological Society – April, 2024
CARSS joined SPARC at their booth at the 2024 American Physiological Society. We met many interested folks and allowed people to hold our devices in their hands! This conference was a resounding success in meeting the many faces of physiological sciences.
North American Neuromodulation Society – January, 2024
We experienced a fantastic turnout at #NANS24 where the Center for Autonomic Nerve Recording and Stimulation System (CARSS) team collaborated with SPARC.science at our shared booth. A special shout-out to the team for assembling an impressive banner, and we appreciate engaging discussions with NANS attendees. We eagerly anticipate ongoing conversations and potential collaborations in the future.
Take a closer look at the case on the table, featuring various IPGs, including the first prototype of the OpeNerve IPG platform. While the current one is a dummy, we expect to unveil the fully functional version within the next six months. Exciting times ahead!
OpenNerve Animal Studies – January, 2024
The OpenNerve platform is excited to embark on an important phase in its development – the initiation of animal safety studies. These studies mark a crucial step forward in the assessment of our novel devices chronically in rats and established components in pigs.
These animal safety studies are instrumental in validating the efficacy and safety profile of our devices, bringing us one step closer to achieving clinical readiness. As we delve into this pivotal phase, we are committed to ensuring that our innovative technologies meet the highest standards, setting the stage for potential advancements in the field of neuromodulation. Stay tuned for further updates as we progress towards realizing the clinical potential of the OpenNerve platform.
Society for Neuroscience – November, 2023
The CARSS team shared a booth with the SPARC and COSMIIC groups at the Society for Neuroscience conference in Washington, DC in November. The outreach was a huge success as the team made several lasting connections with potential collaborators and were able to tell the neuroscience world about our project!
The HORNET Grantee Meeting – October, 2023
The CARSS and COSMIIC teams got together on October 30th in Cleveland, OH to update each other and the National Institute of Health program directors on our projects. The event was a success and confirmed the significant progress both groups have made since we last met in June.
Victor Pikov at the Royal Society Neural Interfaces Summit, 2023
SPARC Phase II All Hands Meeting – June 13-14th, 2023
The CARSS team attended the SPARC Phase II All Hands Meeting on NIH Campus, with several posters presented during the afternoon poster session, a lightning talk presented by Professor Ellis Meng, and a dissemination presentation discussion during the HORNET Support Session. See presentations below!
SPARC Phase II Poster Presentations
SPARC Phase II Lightning Talk
SPARC Phase II HORNET Support Discussion
And finally, congratulations to our SPARC Phase II Travel Award Winner!
The First CARSS Webinar – May 24th, 2023
Our first CARSS Webinar ran successfully last week with nearly 70 attendees from research, medicine, and industry viewing the progress on our project and participating in a lively discussion afterwards. We appreciate everyone who attended, and for those who could not, our prerecorded presentation is here below:
The HORNET Grantee Meeting – February, 2023
We had a successful HORNET Grantee meeting this week featuring informative speeches from Case Western’s COSMIIC Project, and the CARSS team from USC, Medipace Inc., and Med-Ally. We had folks visit from as far Germany! For a day and a half we caught each other up on our progress and plans, brainstorming ways to keep an open-source neuromodulation project sustainable and impactful beyond our core communities. The National Institute of Health and the steering committees provided great guidelines on how to make these projects successful in the timeline we’ve been given. Both teams cannot wait to dive in on determining next steps and collaborating in forging a path forward for truly open-source medical devices!
We are excited to announce the start of CARSS as of September 2022!
A new $11.7 Million USC Center to create Open-Source Implantables for the Nervous System
As announced by Viterbi: “The Center for Autonomic Nerve Recording and Stimulation Systems (CARSS) will be funded through the National Institutes of Health’s Common Fund. CARSS will be part of the Human Open Research Neural Engineering Technologies (HORNET) initiative within the Stimulating Peripheral Activity to Relieve Conditions (SPARC) program. The center will be co-led by Shelly and Ofer Nemirovsky Chair in Convergent Bioscience, Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Vice Dean for Technology Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Ellis Meng, in collaboration with co-principal investigators Victor Pikov from Medipace and Raja Hitti from Med-Ally.“
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