August 1, 2024 Hai receives early stage NSF grant for nanofabricated brain sensors Written By: Tom Ziemer Departments: Biomedical Engineering Categories: Grants|Research Aviad Hai, a Vilas Early Career assistant professor of biomedical engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has received an Early-Concept Grant for Exploratory Research (EAGER) from the National Science Foundation to support his research developing new types of minimally invasive sensors for brain imaging. The $100,000 grant, which builds upon the Hai lab’s previous work computationally modeling magnetoelectric nanoparticles, will fund additional modeling and simulation, nanofabrication, and in-vitro experiments with novel sensors. The EAGER program funds early stage work on potentially transformative research. As part of this research, Hai is also pursuing additional funding in collaboration with Jiamian Hu, an assistant professor of materials science and engineering. Assistant Professor Aviad Hai is also part of the Wisconsin Institute for Translational Neuroengineering at UW-Madison.