# Interdisciplinary Engineering Career Development Center in Movement and Rehabilitation Sciences

> **NIH NIH K12** · NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY · 2021 · $569,617

## Abstract

Project Summary: The goal of this competitive renewal proposal is to continue the highly successful
Interdisciplinary Engineering Career Development Center in Movement and Rehabilitation Sciences created by
a consortium of leading institutions in the field, including Northwestern University, the Rehabilitation Institute of
Chicago, University of California Irvine, Medical University of South Carolina/Clemson University, University of
North Carolina/North Carolina State University, Case Western Reserve University, Marquette University,
Stanford University, and University of Delaware. The mission of our program is to develop top scholars with
engineering and other quantitative backgrounds to become successful rehabilitation scientists in translational
research. This is the only program of its kind to focus on engineering-trained investigators. We believe that
these individuals, who already possess strong quantitative, problem-solving, programming, signal analysis and
mechatronics skills, are uniquely positioned to make a significant impact on the field of quantitative movement
and rehabilitation sciences (MRS) and its translation to rehabilitative care. The proposed career development
program will provide scholars with: 1) In-depth understanding of rehabilitation patient-centered clinical
problems; 2) Career development opportunities and mentoring to broaden their MRS research and training; 3)
Mentoring in translational research; 4) Technology transfer and translation training to increase the impact of
their work. We will accomplish these goals by using a dual-mentorship model with both a senior engineering
faculty member and a senior clinical rehabilitation faculty member assigned to each scholar. Moreover, new
this cycle, scholars will participate in a clinical bootcamp followed by a mentored clinical experience that will
allow them to integrate their newly gained knowledge of pathophysiology to clinical manifestations of
movement disorders. Also, scholars will benefit from increase exposure and networking through organized
conference sessions. Finally, they will be participating in grant review groups made up of fellow scholars and a
member of the executive committee. These experiences are designed to help our scholar’s identify significant
clinical needs related to their domains of expertise as well as to become successful rehabilitation scientists.
The participating institutions have a long and recognized history of rehabilitation research including studies on
the neurobiology of movement behavior and dysfunction, rehabilitation robotics, neural machine interfaces for
the restoration of sensorimotor function, and musculoskeletal modeling. Extensive research is being performed
in these areas, across the continuum from fundamental animal and human studies to the development of novel
rehabilitation paradigms. This impressive array of established research programs provides a fertile ground for
developing our engineering scholars and fostering new ...

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10224856
- **Project number:** 5K12HD073945-10
- **Recipient organization:** NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY
- **Principal Investigator:** JULIUS P DEWALD
- **Activity code:** K12 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2021
- **Award amount:** $569,617
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 2012-09-01 → 2023-08-31

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10224856

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10224856, Interdisciplinary Engineering Career Development Center in Movement and Rehabilitation Sciences (5K12HD073945-10). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-24 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10224856. Licensed CC0.

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