Gabriel A. Silva
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| Education | University of Toronto (BSc, MSc), University of Illinois (PhD), Northwestern University (postdoctoral degree) |
Gabriel Alejandro Silva is an American neuroscientist and bioengineer. He is a Professor of Bioengineering and Faculty Endowed Scholar in Engineering at the Jacobs School of Engineering at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) as well as the Founding Director of the Center for Engineered Natural Intelligence (CENI) at UCSD.
Education
Silva had his BSc in human physiology and biophysics and MSc in neuroscience from the University of Toronto in Canada. Afterwards, he proceeded to the University of Illinois, Chicago, where he earned his PhD in bioengineering and neurophysiology. He moved to the Department of Neurology in Northwestern University. After having his postdoctoral fellowship on Nanotechnology and Medicine (IBNAM), he joined the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) in 2003.[1]
Career
Silva's early works done during his education for Master's degree includes investigating the physiology of astrocyte neural glial cells in the spinal cord and its injury. During his PhD, he modeled the neurophysiology and calcium dynamics of rod photoreceptors neurons in the retina. His thesis also examined the electrophysiology of the retina using "paired-flash electroretinography."
Applied nanotechnology
In collaboration with Nanovision Biosciences, Silva's group has been one of several labs involved in the development of a surgically implantable optoelectronic retinal neural prosthesis to restore vision.[2][3][4][excessive citations]
Honors
In 2017 Silva was appointed a Jacobs Faculty Endowed Scholar in Engineering, and in 2016 elected into the College of Fellows of the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering....[5] In 2008 he was awarded the YC Fung Young Investigator Award and Medal by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)[6][7]
He was featured in a piece in the San Diego Tribune "A Scientist's Life: 10 Things UCSD's Gabriel Silva Has Done".[8] His work has been featured and written about in numerous news and popular science sources.[9][10][11][12][13][14][excessive citations]
References
- ^ "Gabriel A. Silva". ucsd.edu. Mathematical Neuroscience Lab. Retrieved 24 April 2024.
- ^ Kotov, Nicholas A.; Winter, Jessica O.; Clements, Isaac P.; Jan, Edward; Timko, Brian P.; Campidelli, Stéphane; Pathak, Smita; Mazzatenta, Andrea; Lieber, Charles M. (2009). "Nanomaterials for Neural Interfaces". Advanced Materials. 21 (40): 3970–4004. Bibcode:2009AdM....21.3970K. doi:10.1002/adma.200801984. hdl:2027.42/64336. ISSN 1521-4095. S2CID 138338465.
- ^ Mojana, Francesca; Cheng, Lingyun; Bartsch, Dirk-Uwe G.; Silva, Gabriel A.; Kozak, Igor; Nigam, Nitin; Freeman, William R. (2008-08-01). "The Role of Abnormal Vitreomacular Adhesion in Age-related Macular Degeneration: Spectral Optical Coherence Tomography and Surgical Results". American Journal of Ophthalmology. 146 (2): 218–227.e1. doi:10.1016/j.ajo.2008.04.027. ISSN 0002-9394. PMC 2735863. PMID 18538742.
- ^ Silva, Gabriel A.; Jin, Sungho; Davidson, Marie C.; Cao, Elizabeth; Pathak, Smita (2006-02-15). "Quantum Dot Applications to Neuroscience: New Tools for Probing Neurons and Glia". Journal of Neuroscience. 26 (7): 1893–1895. doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3847-05.2006. ISSN 1529-2401. PMC 6674918. PMID 16481420.
- ^ "Gabriel Silva Gabriel A. Silva, Ph.D. To be Inducted into Medical and Biological Engineering Elite - AIMBE".
- ^ "Prof. Silva awarded YC Fung young investigator award and medal". Mathematical Neuroscience Lab.
- ^ "Y.C. Fung Early Career Award". cdn.asme.org.
- ^ "A scientist's life: 10 things UCSD's Gabriel Silva has done". Mathematical Neuroscience Lab.
- ^ "Catching calcium waves could provide Alzheimer's insights". ScienceDaily.
- ^ "Self-assembling scaffold for spinal-cord repair: 'Liquid' bridge could help severed nerve cells grow". June 6, 2004. Archived from the original on 2004-06-06.
- ^ "Catching calcium waves could provide Alzheimer's insights" – via www.eurekalert.org.
- ^ Abbott, Alison (August 1, 2003). "Biology's new dimension". Nature. 424 (6951): 870–872. doi:10.1038/424870a. PMID 12931155. S2CID 2615150.
- ^ Service, Robert F. (October 3, 2003). "Molecular Scaffolding Helps Raise a Crop of Neurons". Science. 302 (5642): 46–47. doi:10.1126/science.302.5642.46. PMID 14526056. S2CID 10729839 – via science.sciencemag.org.
- ^ NU stem-cell gel advances spinal injury research