NSF grant funds research on the gut-microbiome-brain axis system (GMBA)

Professor Reza Ghodssi (ECE/ISR/Fischell Institute) is the Principal Investigator, and Professor William Bentley (BioE/Fischell Institute/IBBR), Associate Professor Jens Herberholz (Psychology/NACS), and Professor Wolfgang Losert (Physics/IPST/IREAP) are co-PIs for a three-year, $1M grant from the National Science Foundation for "Developing engineering solutions to investigate microbiome-to-neuron communication”. The award aims to provide a more realistic picture of the complex gut-microbiome-brain axis system (GMBA). (28 – Aug/2019)