Cullen College Graduate Student Targets Areas For Brain Surgery, Wins Junior Scientist Award

Cullen College Graduate Student Targets Areas For Brain Surgery, Wins Junior Scientist Award

Ilknur Telkes, a fourth-year biomedical Ph.D. student in the Cullen College of Engineering, spends a good bit of her time in the operating room at Baylor College of Medicine. Alongside Ashwin Viswanathan from BCM Neurosurgery and Joohi Jimenez-Shahed from BCM Neurology, she pinpoints areas in the brains of patients suffering from Parkinson’s disease with a new bipolar microelectrode, designed by Nuri Ince, assistant professor of biomedical engineering.