George McConnell
Assistant Professor
Charles V. Schaefer, Jr. School of Engineering and Science
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Education
- PhD (2008) Georgia Institute of Technology (Bioengineering)
- BS (2003) Drexel University (Biomedical Engineering)
- MS (2003) Drexel University (Biomedical Engineering)
Research
Neural Engineering
Neural Interfaces
Deep Brain Stimulation
Neural Interfaces
Deep Brain Stimulation
Experience
Assistant Professor (09/15-present), Biomedical Engineering, Stevens Institute of Technology
Research Scientist (07/13-08/15), Department of Biomedical Engineering, Duke University
Postdoctoral Fellow (01/09-06/13), Department of Biomedical Engineering, Duke University
Research Scientist (07/13-08/15), Department of Biomedical Engineering, Duke University
Postdoctoral Fellow (01/09-06/13), Department of Biomedical Engineering, Duke University
Institutional Service
- BME Graduate Curriculum Committee Member
- BME PhD Program Committee Member
- Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC) Member
- Academic Appeals Committee Member
- Academic Operations and Affairs Committee Member
- BME TT Faculty Search Committee Member
- BME Faculty Search Committee Member
Professional Service
- Frontiers in Neuroscience Topic Editor
Honors and Awards
Fundamental & Translational Neuroscience Postdoctoral Fellow (NIH Training Grant Award), 2010
Full scholarship and travel award to present at the Parkinson’s Action Network (PAN) Forum in Washington, DC, 2015
NARSAD Young Investigator Award, 2015
Selected to Drexel Magazine’s “40 under 40” Class of 2019
Full scholarship and travel award to present at the Parkinson’s Action Network (PAN) Forum in Washington, DC, 2015
NARSAD Young Investigator Award, 2015
Selected to Drexel Magazine’s “40 under 40” Class of 2019
Professional Societies
- BMES – Biomedical Engineering Society Member
- SfN – Society for Neuroscience Member
Grants, Contracts and Funds
Branfman Family Foundation Award, 2016-
Patents and Inventions
McConnell GC, Li H. “A technique to improve deep brain stimulation targeting during intraoperative microelectrode recordings”. US Patent 11,529,519
Selected Publications
Book Chapter
- Li, H.; McConnell, G.; Vinjamuri, R. (2020). Deep brain stimulation for gait and postural disturbances in Parkinson's disease. Advances in Motor Neuroprostheses (pp. 101-122). New York, NY: Springer.
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-38740-2_7.
Conference Proceeding
- Li, H.; McConnell, G. (2019). Proceedings #8: Microstimulation evoked neuronal activity in the substantia nigra pars reticulata in anesthetized rats. Brain stimulation (2 ed., vol. 12, pp. e66-e68).
Journal Article
- Boltcreed, E.; Ersöz, A.; Han, M.; McConnell, G. C. (2024). Short-term effects of gamma stimulation on neuroinflammation at the tissue-electrode interface in motor cortex. Neuromodulation: Technology at the Neural Interface (3 ed., vol. 27, pp. 500-508).
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neurom.2023.11.003. - Sahin, M.; Meehan, S. K.; McConnell, G. C. (2024). Editorial: Pathway to recovery: Understanding the plastic changes in neural circuits leading to recovery. Frontiers in Neuroscience (vol. 18).
https://doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2024.1411938. - DeAngelo, V.; Gehan, A.; Paliwal, S.; Ho, K.; Hilliard, J. D.; Chiang, C.; Viventi, J.; McConnell, G. C. (2024). Cerebellar activity in hemi-Parkinsonian rats during volitional gait and freezing. Brain Communications (5 ed., vol. 6, pp. fcae246).
https://doi.org/10.1093/braincomms/fcae246. - DeAngelo, V.; Hilliard, J. D.; Chiang, C.; Viventi, J.; McConnell, G. C. (2024). Cerebellar activity in PINK1 knockout rats during volitional gait. Brain Communications (5 ed., vol. 6, pp. fcae249).
https://doi.org/10.1093/braincomms/fcae249. - McConnell, G. C.; Leung, L. S. (2023). Editorial: 90th anniversary of the Sherrington and Adrian Nobel Prize: Brain rhythms and oscillations in neural activity modulation, brain function and dysfunction. Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience (vol. 17, pp. 1332956).
https://doi.org/10.3389/fncel.2023.1332956. - DeAngelo, V.; Hilliard, J. D.; McConnell, G. C. (2022). Dopaminergic but not cholinergic neurodegeneration is correlated with gait disturbances in PINK1 knockout rats. Behavioural Brain Research (vol. 417, pp. 113575).
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbr.2021.113575. - Santaniello, S.; McConnell, G. C.; Gale, J. T.; Faghih, R. T.; Kemere, C.; Hilliard, J. D.; Han, M. (2021). Editorial: Towards the next generation of deep brain stimulation therapies: Technological advancements, computational methods, and new targets. Frontiers in Neuroscience (vol. 15, pp. 737737).
https://doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2021.737737. - Li, H.; McConnell, G. C. (2020). Intraoperative microelectrode recordings in substantia nigra pars reticulata in anesthetized rats. Frontiers in Neuroscience (vol. 14, pp. 367).
https://doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2020.00367.
Preprint
- DeAngelo, V.; Gehan, A.; Paliwal, S.; Ho, K.; Hilliard, . D.; Chiang, C.; Viventi, J.; McConnell, G. C. (2023). Cerebellar Activity in Hemi-Parkinsonian Rats during Volitional Gait and Freezing. bioRxiv.
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.02.28.530475v1. - DeAngelo, V. M.; Hilliard, J. D.; Chiang, C.; Viventi, J.; McConnell, G. C. (2023). Cerebellar Activity in PINK1 Knockout Rats during Volitional Gait. bioRxiv.
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.02.28.530534v1. - DeAngelo, V. M.; Hilliard, J. D.; McConnell, G. C. (2021). Dopaminergic but not Cholinergic Neurodegeneration is Correlated with Gait Disturbances in PINK1 Knockout Rats. bioRxiv.
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.04.15.440072v1.
Courses
2022F BME 482: Engineering Physiology
2022S BME 445: Biosystems, Simulation and Control
2022S BME 503: Engineering Physiology II
2022F BME 558: Intro to Brain Machine Interfaces
2022S BME 445: Biosystems, Simulation and Control
2022S BME 503: Engineering Physiology II
2022F BME 558: Intro to Brain Machine Interfaces