Years 2018-2020 – Indian Prime Minister´s Special Award (named Vajra) for Visiting Professorship in Neuroscience in the Department of Neurology, Sri Chitra Tirunal University of Medical Sciences and Technology (SMT), Trivandrum, India. SMT was pronounced by the government of India as a scientific and medical institution of national importance. This award is given to reputed international scientists of Indian origin to establish and direct research centers at the forefront of different disciplines in science and engineering to selected host universities in India, of which SMT is one.
Years 2018-2021 – Visiting Scientist at the Wyss Center for Neuro & Bio Engineering, Geneva, Switzerland. This is an ongoing contract to provide scientific and technologies advice and mentoring to scientists and engineers in the areas of neuroscience, neuroimaging and neural engineering. The Wyss Center is an independent, not for profit organization that provides the expertise, facilities and resources to transform creative neuroscience research into clinical solutions that will improve the lives of people with nervous system disorders.
Year 2016 – BrainChile Prize: Neurorehab Technologies, a technology spinoff company founded by Drs. Sitaram and Ruiz, won the first place in the BrainChile competition organized and held every year by the Innovation Center of PUC.
Year 2017 – Best Research Award: ¨Neural mechanism of brain self-regulation¨, International Conference on Real-time Functional Imaging and Neurofeedback, 28 Nov-2 Dec, 2017, Nara (Japan).
Years 2009-2012 – Indian President’s Award of Visiting Professorship in Neuroscience and Neuroimaging in the Department of Neurology, Sri Chitra Tirunal University of Medical Sciences and Technology, Trivandrum, India. SMT was pronounced by the government of India as a scientific and medical institution of national importance. This award is given to reputed international scientists of Indian origin to establish and direct research centers at the forefront of different disciplines in science and engineering to selected host universities in India, of which SMT is one.
Year 2002 – Infocomm Development Authority (IDA) Award of 1 million Singapore dollars for the development of a suite of products and services based on intelligent wireless technology called SmartEdge built in Sitaram’s laboratory.
AWARDED RESEARCH GRANTS
| No | Duration | Project Title | Funding agency | Funding amount (Approx. USD) |
Investigator(s) |
| 1 | 2018-2020 | Neural Mechanisms of Brain Self-regulation with Brain-Machine Interfaces and Application to Addiction | Anillos,
Conycit, Chile |
975,000 | Director: Ranganatha Sitaram;
Associate Researchers: Sergio Ruiz, Wael El-deredy, Maria Rodriguez Fernandez, Pamela Guevara, Pablo Fuentealba |
| 2 | 2017-2020 | Decoding Individual Brain States of Sleep and Memories from Real-time Pattern Classification of Simultaneous fMRI and EEG Signals | Fondecyt Regular 2017, Conicyt, Chile | 382,000 | Director: Ranganatha Sitaram, Co-Director: Sergio Ruiz. |
| 3 | 2017-2020 | Self-regulation of the brain regions of emotion and reward in chronic depression: a multimodal real-time neurofeedback study | Fondecyt Regular 2017, Conicyt, Chile | 348,000 | Director: Sergio Ruiz, Co-Director: Ranganatha Sitaram |
| 4 | 2016-2018 | Determining Plasticity of Brain-Regulatory Mechanisms Related to Emotion Processing: A Neurofeedback Approach in Aging and Parkinson Disease
Director(s): |
National Institute of Health, R21 grant, USA | 400,000 | Director: Natalie Ebner (Univ. of Florida),
Co-investigators: Ranganatha Sitaram and Dawn Bowers (Univ. of Florida) |
| 5 | 2016-2018 | Biomarker of multiple sclerosis from pattern classification of DTI and fMRI images | Anillo,
Conycit, Chile. |
250,000 | Director: Sergio Uribe,
Collaborator: Ranganatha Sitaram |
| 6 | 2016-2017 | Investigation of the influence of contingent reward for learning brain self-regulation | PUC-UT Austin SEED grant | 25,000 | Director: Ranganatha Sitaram, Deputy Director: Sergio Ruiz |
| 7 | 2016-2018 | Combined fNIRS and electrophysiological measures in the dorsal horn of the spinal cord for investigating neuromuscular coupling | Anillo,
Conycit, Chile. |
100,000 | Director: Sergio Uribe,
Collaborator: Ranganatha Sitaram |
| 8 | 2015-2017 | Pattern classification of diffusion tensor images to understand the anatomical connectivity differences between expert singers and novices | Intramural funding from Montreal Neurological Institute, Canada | Director(s): Robert Zattore (MNI), Boris Kleber (University of Arhus, Denmark), Ranga Sitaram (PUC) | |
| 9 | 2014-2016 | Enhancing Positive Affect: Learned control of the Brain’s Appetitive Circuit Using Real-Time FMRI Neurofeedback | McKnight Brain Institute, University of Florida | 50,000 | Director: Ranganatha Sitaram
Co-director: Peter Lang |
| 10 | 2013-2014 | Simultaneous fMRI and EEG recording for the study of brain functioning in a BCI system | Vicerrectoría de Investigación, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile | 170,000 | Director: Sergio Ruiz,
International Collaborator: Ranganatha Sitaram (at that time, Univ. Of Florida) |
| 11 | 2013-2014 | Brain computer interfaces for the enhancement of brain networks and emotion processing. Applications in depression and schizophrenia | Ministry of Education, Government of Chile | 170,000 | Director: Sergio Ruiz,
International Collaborator: Ranganatha Sitaram (at that time, Univ. Of Florida) |
| 12 | 2012-2014 | Neural Basis of Brain Self-regulation using Real-time fMRI, fNIRS and Electrophysiology in Primates. | Centre for Integrative Neuroscience (CIN), Tuebingen | 150,000 | Director: Ranganatha Sitaram, Co-director: Niels Birbaumer (Univ. of Tuebingen) |
| 13 | 2015-2018 | Combined fMRI and fNIRS Brain-Computer Interface for stroke rehabilitation | Veterans Affairs Hospital research funding, USA | 350,000 | Director(s): Janis Daly and Ranganatha Sitaram |
| 14 | 2012-2015 | Self-Regulation of Broca’s Area using Real time fMRI in Post Stroke Aphasia patients | Department of Biotechnology (DBT, India) | 120,000 | Director: Kesavadas Chandrasekharan Co-Director: Ranganatha Sitaram (Sri Chitra, India) |
| 15 | 2011-2013 | Neurobiological Marker for Population Differences: a Neuroeconomic Investigation with Anxiety & Depression Patients contrasted with Normal Population | Department of Biotechnology (DBT), India | 120,000 | Director: Kesavadas Chandrasekharan Co-Director: Ranganatha Sitaram (Sri Chitra, India) |
| 16 | 2011-2013 | Self-regulation of Anterior Insula in Patients of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. | Centre for Integrative Neuroscience (CIN), Tuebingen, Germany. | 150,000 | Director: Ranganatha Sitaram, Co-director: Niels Birbaumer (Univ. of Tuebingen) |
| 17 | 2013-2016 | Diffusion Tensor Imaging compared to standard clinical measures of concussion in female and male collegiate athletes: a longitudinal survey across the college years | Toshiba Medical Systems | 175,000 | Director: Tony Mancuso,
Co-director: Ranganatha Sitaram |
| 18 | 2012-2015 | OPTOSIS: A Portable NIRS-BCI with Functional Electrical Stimulation for Stroke Rehabilitation (A Mutlicenter Collaboration between Germany, India, Spain and Turkey). | INDIGO: European Union and DBT India Grant Call | 600,000 | Director: Ranganatha Sitaram |
| 19 | 2011-2013 | Development of a Portable Functional Near Infrared Spectroscopy Brain-Computer Interface for Stroke Rehabilitation | Badenwuerttemberg State Ministry for Education and Research of Germany and Singapore | 250,000 | Directors: Ranganatha Sitaram (Univ. of Tuebingen),
Trevor Penny (National Univ. of Singapore) |
| 20 | 2010-2o13 | Effective Connectivity Enhancement and Behavior in Schizophrenia: An fMRI Brain-Computer Interface Study | German Research Foundation (DFG) | 350,000 | Directors: Ranganatha Sitaram, Niels Birbaumer (Univ. of Tuebingen) |
| 21 | 2010-2013 | Volitional Regulation of Brain System for Craving using Real-time fMRI Brain-Computer Interface. | German Research Foundation (DFG) | 350,000 | Directors: Ranganatha Sitaram, Niels Birbaumer & Anil Batra (Univ. of Tuebingen) |
| 22 | 2008-2011 | Development of Real-time Support Vector Classification in an fMRI-BCI: Applications to Stroke and Lie Detection. | German Research Foundation (DFG) | 350,000 | Directors: Ranganatha Sitaram & Niels Birbaumer (Univ. of Tuebingen) |
| 23 | 09/2010 | Effective Connectivity Enhancement and Behavior in Schizophrenia: An fMRI Brain-Computer Interface Study | German Research Foundation (DFG) | 350,000 | Directors: Ranganatha Sitaram & Niels Birbaumer (Univ. of Tuebingen) |
| 24 | 2002-2004 | Smart Wireless Meter and Smart Billboard Technologies using SmartEdge Machine-to-Machine Technology | Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore | 500,000 | Directors: Ranganatha Sitaram & Ramanath Padmanabhan (I2R, Singapore) |
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