Vision
The BioReD Hub’s vision is as a translatable research interface between the brain (neurobiology), cognition (neuroscience) and human behavior (human factors engineering).
Collaboration
As part of the Montana State University’s core value of fostering innovation and exploration of novel ways to support our global and local communities, this interprofessional Hub of researchers from the Norm Asbjornson College of Engineering, Mark & Robyn Jones College of Nursing, Gianforte School of Computing, and many others use state-of-the-art instrumentation, research practices and innovative ideas to address biomedical systems engineering design, healthcare system improvement, and clinical practice advancement. This collaboration expands understanding and positively impacts lives and society, especially for Montanans.
Leveraging Interdisciplinary Partnerships
The BioReD Hub is inclusive in its approach to include engineers, scientists, healthcare practitioners and other stakeholders to promote wellness by leveraging biomedical engineering and biological sciences to their fullest. The BioReD Hub leverages MSU’s access to front-line clinician expertise to translate solutions to frontier healthcare barriers and challenges. The BioReD seeks to engage rural and isolated populations that need access to the latest technologies that promote health and wellbeing. The BioReD Hub’s interdisciplinary vision is to promote both fundamental biomedical research advances at discipline interfaces for the rapid development of solutions for health and healthcare challenges.
Core Team
The core research team focuses on problems best suited for interdisciplinary collaboration to expand understanding and positively impact lives and society especially for Montanans. Drs. Bernadette McCrory, Elizabeth Johnson and Laura Stanley serve as the Co-Directors of the Hub, but new collaborative relationships are evolving. The Hub also provides opportunities for students to gain hands-on experience in the growing biomedical and translational health sciences fields.
Instrumentation
The BioReD Hub's interdisciplinary instrumentation center uses state-of-the-art technology, research practices and innovative ideas to address biomedical systems engineering design, healthcare system improvement, and clinical practice advancement. Immersive, Multimodal, High-Fidelity Research instrumentation includes electroencephalogram (EEG), mobile fNIRS, eye-tracking glasses, multitouch drafting table, projection mapping, adult and pediatric patient simulators, and 3D prototyping technologies. The goals are to utilize this instrumentation to fundamentally understand multimodal responses, influences for sustained motivation, predict and design for direct action, and rapidly translate from bench to bedside.
Funding and Sponsors
Thank you to the M.J. Murdock Charitable Trust, Montana State University Vice President of Research, Norm Asbjornson College of Engineering, and Mark and Robyn Jones College of Nursing for generously supporting the BioReD Hub.
News
September 20, 2023. Montana State researchers study hand gestures for children with disabilities (MSU News Link).
July 16, 2023. Engineering the Next Rural Innovation Renaissance. Designing Care On-Air (PodCast Link).
April 28, 2023. MSU expanding biomedical research capabilities with grant from Murdock Trust (MSU News Link).
Questions
For questions please email bioredhub@montana.edu or call 406-994-4934.
BioReD Hub Directors
o Bernadette McCrory
o Elizabeth Johnson
o Laura Stanley
