Remy Durand |
Remy Durand, an undergraduate working with Dr. Horst von Recum and Dr. Dustin Tyler, was recently awarded a highly competitive National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship (NSF GRF). The award provides funds to support tuition and a stipend for three years of graduate study. Remy will use his Fellowship to study for a PhD in Bioengineering at Stanford University, where he will work with Dr. Karl Deisseroth on noninvasive, optical neural stimulation. Stanford was chosen from several schools including MIT, Georgia Tech, UC San Diego and a Whitaker International Scholars Fellowship to study at Cambridge University in England.
Remy is currently the Vice President of the Biomedical Engineering Society at Case and is a member of Mortar Board National Honor Society and Tau Beta Pi Honors Engineering Fraternity. He began working with Dr. Horst von Recum in his tissue engineering lab in the fall of 2005 where he has worked to improve interfacing neurons with electrodes developed in the Neural Engineering Center. Remy received an NSF Research for Undergraduates (REU) fellowship to study with Dr. Catherine Klapperich at Boston University where he worked to improve dermal analogs by mechanically stimulating cell-seeded polymer scaffolds. Last summer, Remy completed an internship at Philips Electronics in Eindhoven, the Netherlands where he worked with Dr. Michel Decré to develop a multicompartment neurofluidic device to study the mechanisms of Deep Brain Stimulation.
Prior to starting at Stanford in the fall, Remy will be working for Northstar Neuroscience in Seattle this summer. At Northstar, which develops devices for cortical stimulation for disorders such as depression, Remy will be a product engineer and will have the opportunity to design devices and testing protocols as well as evaluate explanted devices. Following graduate school, Remy hopes to pursue a career in the medical device industry.
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