Tempe-based Arizona State University and Phoenix-based Barrow Neurological Institute partnered to create The Barrow-ASU Initiative for Innovation in Neuro-Engineering.
What you should know:
1. The initiative will bring together experts from both institutes to improve the lives of patients with neurological disorders.
2. The initiative will work in think-tank like fashion with experts from the medical and engineering field collaborating together.
3. Barrow Neurological Institute President and CEO Michael Lawton said, "We’d like people to think of Phoenix as this mecca of neuroscience innovation in the same way that people think of Houston as the mecca for space exploration. We’re capitalizing on the most innovative university in the country and the largest, busiest neurological institute in the country."