For her work on strategies that enable precise, minimally invasive alteration of nerves, Viviana Gradinaru is the 2020 grand prize winner of the Science & PINS Prize for Neuromodulation. Her work opens up the potential for noninvasively reaching targets deep in the brain, to treat brain disorders. Its application in a mouse model of Parkinson’s disease shows it could be a way to treat brain disorders by targeting the nervous system outside the brain and spinal column, sometimes called the peripheral nervous system.
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