Thor's email with details about the NIH R01 Proposal Call

Bioengineering Research Partnerships (BRP) (R01) PAR-07-352 NIBIB, NCI, NEI, NHLBI, NHGRI, NIA, NIAMS, NICHD, NIDA, NIDCD, NIDCR, NIEHS, NINDS Purpose: to support Bioengineering Research Partnerships (BRPs) for basic, applied, and translational multi-disciplinary research that addresses important biological or medical research problems. In the context of this program, a partnership is a multi-disciplinary research team that applies an integrative, systems approach to develop knowledge and/or methods to prevent, detect, diagnose, or treat disease or to understand health and behavior. The partnership must operate according to a clear leadership plan and include appropriate bioengineering or allied quantitative sciences in combination with biomedical and/or clinical components. Remaining standard R01 deadlines: Oct. 5, 2009 and Feb. 5, 2010 Remaining standard AIDS/AIDS related deadline: Jan. 7, 2010 and May 7, 2010 Expiration Date: May 8, 2010 http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-07-352.html

The deadline in Feb will approach faster than we would like, so we should probably meet sometime to discuss.

regards, thor

Previous proposals and papers that might be useful as a basis for this proposal

• ProposalNih2009.pdf

• ProposalKaust2009.pdf

• ProposalKaust2008.pdf

• Khatib2009_motion_tracking.pdf

General Ideas

Use Khatib's marker-robot algorithm to select a specific gait to produce a desired KAM based on minimizing metabolic cost (total energy consumption) and overall gait change (minimize overall changes from baseline gait). These two minimizing factors could be weighted - as a first pass maybe weight them equally.

5-year Proposal Plan

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