Kessler Foundation fellow receives grant from National Institutes of Health

(Kessler Foundation) Rakesh Pilkar, Ph.D., post-doctoral fellow in Human Performance and Engineering Research at Kessler Foundation, was awarded a R03, $153,000 grant by the National Institutes of Health to study the response levels to function electrical stimulation (FES) interventions in walking patterns during the rehabilitation of stroke patients with hemiplegic gait. He will look for the association of the responders' gait characteristics while determining proper FES intervention parameters. Dr. Pilkar's fellowship is funded by NIDRR's ARRT program.
Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science - Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news