Erin Purcell
Associate Chair - Biomedical Engineering (BME)
Department of Biomedical Engineering, College of Engineering
Professor - Department of Biomedical Engineering in the College of Engineering
Professor - Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering in the College of Engineering
775 Woodlot Dr Rm 1042
Biography
Erin Purcell studied neural engineering as a graduate student in Biomedical Engineering at the University of Michigan. Through her graduate and post-doctoral work, her training spans the use of extracellular recordings, intracellular recordings, and optogenetics to control and assess excitability in neurons. As the P.I. of the Regenerative Electrode Interface Lab, Dr. Purcell is pursuing new approaches to characterize, modulate, and regenerate neuronal responses at the interface of electrodes i
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Ph.D. Biomedical Engineering, University of Michigan, 2008
M.S. Biomedical Engineering, University of Michigan, 2004
B.S. Biomedical Engineering, Michigan Tech University, 2001
Research and Grants
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