Thursday, September 19, 2013 5:30 PM

University of Maryland BioPark Life Sciences Conference Center
801 West Baltimore Street Baltimore, MD 21201

[Street parking as well as parking in a garage across the street is available. The venue is a short walk, across MLK Blvd, from the Medical, Dental, Nursing and Pharmacy schools]

LECTURE: Robotic Prosthesis – Implications and Applications in post-traumatic and post-stroke patients

SPEAKER: Michael McLoughlin Deputy Business Area Executive Research & Exploratory Development Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory

UM Ventures and the Maryland Innovation Initiative are pleased to announce the fourth talk in the ongoing Seminar series "Innovation at the Intersection of Medicine and Engineering".

Michael McLoughlin, a faculty member in the Applied Physics Laboratory of Johns Hopkins University and a renowned expert on Robotics, will address "Robotic Prosthesis: Implications and Applications in post-traumatic and post-stroke patients." His work was recently featured on "60 Minutes."

The goal of the series is to stimulate conversations and interactions between engineers and health care faculty and students and this talk will be a perfect example of how we can do that. The Maryland Innovation Initiative (MII) is eager to solicit new ideas, new inventions, new procedures, new software and new collaborations on topics at the intersection of engineering and medicine and provides funding to demonstrate "proof of principle," with the hope that this can lead to start-ups or licensing opportunities that can ultimately help to improve care of our patients.