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By Lily Stuart
On March 26, Case Western Reserve University researchers Dustin Tyler and A. Bolu Ajiboye were featured on the CBS News program 60 Minutes. Both are biomedical engineering pioneers who work in neuroprosthetics, researching how to bring a renewed sense of touch to amputees and people with paralysis. Tyler and Ajiboye also both lead research at the University as well as at the Louis Stokes Cleveland Department of Veteran Affairs (VA). The segment includes other researchers from outside Northeast Ohio and can be watched here.
Tyler specifically works with upper-limb amputees. He and his team have brought a sense of physical touch to a prosthesis that has allowed amputees to pick up objects and even slice a tomato safely. They have fundamentally changed the mechanism from being a sporadically used tool to an actually-working “hand.” Tyler’s work has been featured in National Geographic. Ajiboye focuses on another aspect of prosthesis development: the invention and control of brain-computer interface, and neuroprosthetic technologies that restore function to the nervous system in the event of a stroke or spinal cord injury. He is also considered an international expert on brain implants, with some of his work featured in the 2019 documentary I AM HUMAN.
References: CWRU’s The Daily