We were awarded a Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences Innovator Grant for our project proposal “Linking the brain to immunity via Deep Brain Stimulation and Mass Cytometry”!
The experiments described in this proposal will use deep brain stimulation in human patients to investigate how modulating the activity of different brain areas influences the immune system.
I am extremely excited to start on this project, which will shed new light onto brain control of immunity.
Experimental workflow for examining brain-immune interactions using DBS and mass cytometry (Credit: JCB).