{"id":6458,"date":"2023-09-19T10:52:54","date_gmt":"2023-09-19T14:52:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/physical-therapy\/?p=6458"},"modified":"2023-09-21T14:07:43","modified_gmt":"2023-09-21T18:07:43","slug":"congratulations-to-dr-reza-abiri-pi-dr-yalda-shahriari-co-pi-and-dr-mariusz-furmanek-co-pi-were-awarded-a-460k-national-science-foundation-nsf-grant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/physical-therapy\/congratulations-to-dr-reza-abiri-pi-dr-yalda-shahriari-co-pi-and-dr-mariusz-furmanek-co-pi-were-awarded-a-460k-national-science-foundation-nsf-grant\/","title":{"rendered":"Congratulations to Dr. Reza Abiri (PI), Dr. Yalda Shahriari (Co-PI) and Dr. Mariusz Furmanek (Co-PI), were awarded a $460K National Science Foundation (NSF) Grant!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Congratulations to <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Dr. Reza Abiri (PI), Dr. Yalda Shahriari (Co-PI) and Dr. Mariusz Furmanek (Co-PI), were awarded a $460K National Science Foundation (NSF) Grant to study \u201cAn Adaptive Closed-Loop Robotic Exoskeleton for Upper Extremity Motor Rehabilitation.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>This project&#8217;s goals will be accomplished through three research thrusts: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Developing a multimodal, wearable exoskeleton actuated using a haptic forcefield for upper extremity training<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Leveraging the shared control theory to develop a closed-loop adaptive assistive strategy<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Validating the proposed rehabilitative platform on stroke patients with upper extremity impairment.&nbsp;<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The project is jointly funded by the Disabilities and Rehabilitation Engineering Program (DARE) and the Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">For more information on the project, please see the link below:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/urldefense.proofpoint.com\/v2\/url?u=https-3A__www.nsf.gov_awardsearch_showAward-3FAWD-5FID-3D2245558-26HistoricalAwards-3Dfalse&amp;d=DwMFaQ&amp;c=dWz0sRZOjEnYSN4E4J0dug&amp;r=4VEhMGxUcg6z7BtIxkNJp5shIodTVxpg4w5iZtaZGNM&amp;m=-OpoIvx6ibMXfdzGhq3Qx5_c6fV0cGo28z5MtREPox0DWArgmR46r_LXOlkMeFGb&amp;s=DoaVpRroonY7enmMwf9PXTIUtCpwe9UPOHrINwD--hc&amp;e=\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">National Science Foundation (NSF) Award Abstract<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to Dr. Reza Abiri (PI), Dr. Yalda Shahriari (Co-PI) and Dr. Mariusz Furmanek (Co-PI), were awarded a $460K National Science Foundation (NSF) Grant to study \u201cAn Adaptive Closed-Loop Robotic Exoskeleton for Upper Extremity Motor Rehabilitation.&#8221; This project&#8217;s goals will be accomplished through three research thrusts: Developing a multimodal, wearable exoskeleton actuated using a haptic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2529,"featured_media":6452,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/physical-therapy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/physical-therapy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/physical-therapy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/physical-therapy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2529"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/physical-therapy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6458"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/physical-therapy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6458\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6463,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/physical-therapy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6458\/revisions\/6463"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/physical-therapy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/physical-therapy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/physical-therapy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/physical-therapy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}