Jason Chiang
2nd year medical student
2nd year of MSTP

EDUCATION

• B.S. 2007, Johns Hopkins University
  Biomedical Engineerng

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

• University of Veterinary Medicine (Hanover, Germany), 2007-2008
  Advisors - Manuela Gernert, Wolfgang Loscher
  Project - studying the central piriform complex of the brain as a potential therapeutic target for Deep Brain Stimulation
• Johns Hopkins University, 9/2006-3/2007
  Advisor - David Gracias
  Project - building nanosensors that are capable of detecting catecholamines
• Johns Hopkins University, 8/2004-3/2007
  Advisor - David Sherman
  Project - explored the effects of overkindling in chronic animal models of epilepsy using novel statistical digital signal processing techniques
• Toronto Western Hospital, Summer 2005
  Advisor - Andres Lozano
  Project - helped on a project to optimize the effects of Deep Brain Stimulation in the anterior nucleus of the thalamus in acute models of epilepsy

RESEARCH INTERESTS

• engineering, neuroscience