Wilsaan Joiner, PhD

Dr. Wilsaan Joiner’s research group conducts translational research in healthy individuals and clinical conditions such as Schizophrenia, Alzheimer's Disease, spinal cord injury and patients with upper limb differences. The group uses various experimental techniques (e.g., fMRI, eye tracking, motion capture, human psychophysics) and approaches (e.g., robotics, behavioral neuroscience and computational modeling) to investigate the integration of sensory and motor signals, and the role these signals play in guiding goal-directed movements, visual perception, motor adaptation and memory consolidation. Achieving this understanding may lead to better methods for diagnosing and treating impairments of the nervous system. 

Dr. Joiner obtained his PhD in Biomedical Engineering from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, and was a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University and the National Eye Institute. He was awarded the NIH Pathway to Independence Award (K99/R00) from the National Eye Institute and the NSF CAREER Award under the Biomedical Engineering Program. His current research is funded by several grants from the Alzheimer's Association, National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health.

Graduate group affiliations:

• Biomedical Engineering Graduate Group, BMEGG (GBIM)
• Neurosciences Graduate Group (GNES)