Helen Schwerdt
Co-PI (Core Leadership)
University of Pittsburgh
Helen N. Schwerdt, PhD, is an assistant professor in the Department of Bioengineering at the University of Pittsburgh. Her research is focused on building and applying new implantable tools to elucidate the multiple dynamic modes of neural signaling that are critical to our everyday behavior, both in health and in disease. A major goal of Dr. Schwerdt’s lab is to delineate the neural signaling operations, molecular and electrical, that control plasticity during learning and how these become impaired in diseases such as Parkinson’s and major mood disorders.
Dr. Schwerdt received a BS in biomedical engineering (2008) and an MSE in electrical and computer engineering (2009) from Johns Hopkins University and then earned a PhD in electrical engineering from Arizona State University (2014). Dr. Schwerdt worked in the labs of Dr. Junseok Chae for her graduate studies and Dr. Ann Graybiel and Dr. Michael Cima at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for postdoctoral work.
Recent ASAP Preprints & Published Papers
Microinvasive Probes for Monitoring Electrical and Chemical Neural Activity in Nonhuman Primates
Aseptic, semi-sealed cranial chamber implants for chronic multi-channel neurochemical and electrophysiological neural recording in nonhuman primates
