March 2026
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The Bionic Breast Project implants their second participant!
January 2026
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Roberto and Chris travel to Las Vegas with one of our iSens project participants to spread the word about our new project at the Amputee Coalition Conference
November 2025
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The entire Graczyk Lab goes to SfN to present!
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Jonah is awarded the Trainee Professional Development Award. Congrats Jonah!​
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The Bionic Breast Symposia is held in UChicago. Rohit and Leah do a great job of leading the sensory restoration team
October 2025
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Our second proprioception participant and first ever woman enrolled to the upper extremity amputee research projects is implanted! We're looking forward to working with her in the years to come!
September 2025
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Dr. Emily Graczyk and our team are awarded $9.9 million by the DOD Congressionally Directed Medical Research Program to study the impact of high degree of freedom, sensory enabled neuroprostheses compared to conventional prostheses. Check out the story here!
August 2025
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The Human Fusions Institute hosts its second Office of Naval Research retreat. The Graczyk Lab presents some of its findings
July 2025
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Leah is in Chicago for our Bionic Breast Project Testing
June 2025
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Bronwyn attends NIC
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Rohit attends Neurons_MATTR workshop in Sweden
May 2025
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The Bionic Breast Project implants their first participant! Congrats to Leah Roldan, Dr. Graczyk and our collaborators at UChicago
January 2025
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John presents at NANS and Roberto tables for the FES Center at NANS
October 2024
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Bronwyn, Rohit, John Wright and Preethi Bhat all attend SFN, spreading the word about our awesome science!
July 2024
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Our proprioception study participant's first visit went well and we look forward to working with them in the years to come!
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The Human Fusions Institute hosts the first Office of Naval Research program retreat
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Roberto and Jessica attend the PVA Wheelchair Games in New Orleans
May 2024
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The team successfully implanted our first participant under the VA Merit Proprioception Study!
March 2024
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Congratulations Arushi Dugar for presenting her poster on "Spike Sorting in the Primary Somatosensory Cortex" at Hathaway Brown HS - she competed in Advanced Judging and has qualified to present her work at the Regeneron International Science and Engineering (ISEF) in Los Angeles later in May!
December 2023
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Congratulations Jonah Mudge on a successful defense of your R21!
November 2023
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The Human Fusions Institute host a retreat for their new Office of Naval Research (ONR) grant
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PhD students Preethi Bhat and Bryn Spilker travel with Dr. Emily Graczyk and PhD student Bri Hutchison from the Limbs Lab to SFN. Congratulations on the poster presentations!
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First stim of S113; he feels his hand again! We Look forward to continuing work with you
October 2023
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S113 is implanted and joins our upper extremity amputee studies! Special thanks to S113, his support system and the surgical team for making this a possibility! We look forward to working with you.
August 2023
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Melissa Schmitt and Chris Cowen travel to the Amputee Coalition to help spread the word about the incredible research happening here in Cleveland, OH!
July 2023
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Roberto Peralta and Hannah Morgan (from the ReLLiNC Lab) travel to Portland, Oregon for the National Veterans Wheelchair Games. They helped spread the word about all the incredible research happening here in Cleveland, OH!
March 2023
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We welcome Jessica Jarvela to the Team as our new Study Coordinator
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We thank Alesia Lambert, our former study coordinator for all her time and care over the past year and wish her luck in her next position
February 2023
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The Graczyk Lab welcomed many new students during the open house this year!
January 2023
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Congratulations to John and Melissa on publishing on their work on "The Experience of Sensorimotor Integration of a Lower Limb Sensory Neuroprosthesis: A Qualitative Case Study" in Frontiers of Neuroscience. Read their paper here
August 2022
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Welcome to Roberto Peralta and Bryn Spilker who join the lab as PhD students
August 2021
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Welcome to Jonah Mudge, who joins the lab as a PhD student
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The Reconnecting the Hand and Arm to the Brain (ReHAB) Clinical Trial is featured in PBS NewsHour
February 2021
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Human Fusions Institute (HFI) participates in the ThinkBig Campaign
