Hawe and Guy awarded NIH Trailblazer Grant

Rachel Hawe, DPT, PhD, assistant professor in the School of Kinesiology and Director of the NeuroRehabilitation Across the Lifespan (NeuRAL) Laboratory, along with colleague Stephen Guy, PhD, associate professor in Computer Science, received a 3-year NIH Trailblazer Grant entitled “Using Deep Multimodal Clustering to Characterize Motor Phenotypes Across the Lifespan.” Trailblazer grants are intended to integrate engineering and biomedical sciences and this particular grant builds on the collaborative work between Hawe and Guy which had previously developed a computer vision-based augmented reality assessment of reaching. In this next stage of the project, they will use multiple types of sensors and deep learning-based clustering strategies to identify motor phenotypes (subgroups) in neurotypical individuals across the lifespan. The long-term goal is to be able to identify motor phenotypes in clinical populations from recordings of movements that can be done in the clinic with limited equipment and time, allowing for more targeted rehabilitation.