Steve I. Perlmutter

Steve Perlmutter received the Sc.B. degree in biomedical engineering from Brown University, Providence, RI, USA, in 1979, the M.S. degree in biomedical engineering from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Los Angeles, CA, USA, in 1982, and the Ph.D. degree in physiology and neuroscience from Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA, in 1991. He is currently a Research Professor with the Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA, where he is also a Research Affiliate with the Washington National Primate Research Center and a member of the Center for Neurotechnology and the University of Washington Institute for Neuroengineering. His research interests include spinal control of voluntary movements, neural plasticity, and neuroprosthetics. His lab is developing therapies for spinal cord injury and stroke that use activity-dependent, targeted, electrical, and optical stimulation of the nervous systems.