Ashley Dalrymple
BSc in electrical and biomedical engineering (U Alberta)
PhD in neuroscience (U Alberta)
Assistant Professor, Department of Physical Therapy, Faculty of Medicine, UBC
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Dr. Ashley Dalrymple is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Physical Therapy and Faculty at ICORD. She holds a Canada Research Chair (Tier 2) in Spinal Cord Neuromodulation. Ashley earned her BSc in Electrical and Biomedical Engineering and her PhD in Neuroscience at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, AB, Canada. She completed her first postdoc at the Bionics Institute in Melbourne, Australia. She then moved to Pittsburgh, PA, USA, first at the University of Pittsburgh and then at Carnegie Mellon University. Ashley was an Assistant Professor at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, UT, USA before joining UBC in Vancouver.
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Ashley is the Director of the Neural Engineering and Rehabilitation Via Electrical Stimulation (NERVES) Lab. The NERVES Lab aims to improve the quality of life of individuals with neurological impairments using state-of-the-art neurotechnologies. She seeks to advance the scientific understanding of motor and somatosensory systems to better engineer new rehabilitation therapies and technologies. The focus of her research involves the use of implanted and non-invasive spinal neural interfaces and assistive technologies to restore function, particularly the rehabilitation of walking, restoring sensation, and reducing pain. She also develops reinforcement learning methods to control walking after neural injury. Her research is highly interdisciplinary and spans basic science, proof-of-concept, pre-clinical, and clinical studies, working towards translation into real clinical applications.
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- spinal cord injury
- rehabilitation of walking
- sensory neuroprostheses
- neural interfaces
- sensorimotor systems
- spinal reflexes