George McConnell (gmcconne)

George McConnell

Assistant Professor

Charles V. Schaefer, Jr. School of Engineering and Science

Department of Biomedical Engineering

McLean Hall 303
(201) 216-8196

Education

  • PhD (2008) Georgia Institute of Technology (Bioengineering)
  • BS (2003) Drexel University (Biomedical Engineering)
  • MS (2003) Drexel University (Biomedical Engineering)

Research

Neural Engineering

Neural Interfaces

Deep Brain Stimulation

Experience

Assistant Professor (09/15-present), Biomedical Engineering, Stevens Institute of Technology

Research Scientist (07/13-08/15), Department of Biomedical Engineering, Duke University

Postdoctoral Fellow (01/09-06/13), Department of Biomedical Engineering, Duke University

Institutional Service

  • BME Graduate Curriculum Committee Member
  • BME PhD Program Committee Member
  • Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC) Member
  • Academic Appeals Committee Member
  • Academic Operations and Affairs Committee Member
  • BME TT Faculty Search Committee Member
  • BME Faculty Search Committee Member

Professional Service

  • Frontiers in Neuroscience Topic Editor

Honors and Awards

Fundamental & Translational Neuroscience Postdoctoral Fellow (NIH Training Grant Award), 2010


Full scholarship and travel award to present at the Parkinson’s Action Network (PAN) Forum in Washington, DC, 2015


NARSAD Young Investigator Award, 2015


Selected to Drexel Magazine’s “40 under 40” Class of 2019

Professional Societies

  • BMES – Biomedical Engineering Society Member
  • SfN – Society for Neuroscience Member

Grants, Contracts and Funds

Branfman Family Foundation Award, 2016-

Patents and Inventions

McConnell GC, Li H. “A technique to improve deep brain stimulation targeting during intraoperative microelectrode recordings”. US Patent 11,529,519

Selected Publications

Book Chapter

  1. Li, H.; McConnell, G.; Vinjamuri, R. (2020). Deep brain stimulation for gait and postural disturbances in Parkinson's disease. Advances in Motor Neuroprostheses (pp. 101-122). New York, NY: Springer.
    https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-38740-2_7.

Conference Proceeding

  1. Li, H.; McConnell, G. (2019). Proceedings #8: Microstimulation evoked neuronal activity in the substantia nigra pars reticulata in anesthetized rats. Brain stimulation (2 ed., vol. 12, pp. e66-e68).

Journal Article

  1. DeAngelo, V.; Gehan, A.; Paliwal, S.; Ho, K.; Hilliard, J. D.; Chiang, C.; Viventi, J.; McConnell, G. C. (2024). Cerebellar activity in hemi-Parkinsonian rats during volitional gait and freezing. Brain Communications (vol. Provisionally Accepted).
  2. DeAngelo, V.; Hilliard, J. D.; Chiang, C.; Viventi, J.; McConnell, G. C. (2024). Cerebellar activity in PINK1 knockout rats during volitional gait. Brain Communications (vol. In Press).
  3. McConnell, G. C.; Leung, L. S. (2023). Editorial: 90th anniversary of the Sherrington and Adrian Nobel Prize: Brain rhythms and oscillations in neural activity modulation, brain function and dysfunction. Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience (vol. 17, pp. 1332956).
    https://doi.org/10.3389/fncel.2023.1332956.
  4. Boltcreed, E.; Ersöz, A.; Han, M.; McConnell, G. C. (2023). Short-term effects of gamma stimulation on neuroinflammation at the tissue-electrode interface in motor cortex. Neuromodulation: Technology at the Neural Interface (vol. In Press).
    https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neurom.2023.11.003.
  5. DeAngelo, V.; Hilliard, J. D.; McConnell, G. C. (2022). Dopaminergic but not cholinergic neurodegeneration is correlated with gait disturbances in PINK1 knockout rats. Behavioural Brain Research (vol. 417, pp. 113575).
    https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbr.2021.113575.
  6. Santaniello, S.; McConnell, G. C.; Gale, J. T.; Faghih, R. T.; Kemere, C.; Hilliard, J. D.; Han, M. (2021). Editorial: Towards the next generation of deep brain stimulation therapies: Technological advancements, computational methods, and new targets. Frontiers in Neuroscience (vol. 15, pp. 737737).
    https://doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2021.737737.
  7. Li, H.; McConnell, G. C. (2020). Intraoperative microelectrode recordings in substantia nigra pars reticulata in anesthetized rats. Frontiers in Neuroscience (vol. 14, pp. 367).
    https://doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2020.00367.

Preprint

  1. DeAngelo, V.; Gehan, A.; Paliwal, S.; Ho, K.; Hilliard, . D.; Chiang, C.; Viventi, J.; McConnell, G. C. (2023). Cerebellar Activity in Hemi-Parkinsonian Rats during Volitional Gait and Freezing. bioRxiv.
    https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.02.28.530475v1.
  2. DeAngelo, V. M.; Hilliard, J. D.; Chiang, C.; Viventi, J.; McConnell, G. C. (2023). Cerebellar Activity in PINK1 Knockout Rats during Volitional Gait. bioRxiv.
    https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.02.28.530534v1.
  3. DeAngelo, V. M.; Hilliard, J. D.; McConnell, G. C. (2021). Dopaminergic but not Cholinergic Neurodegeneration is Correlated with Gait Disturbances in PINK1 Knockout Rats. bioRxiv.
    https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.04.15.440072v1.

Courses

2022F BME 482: Engineering Physiology
2022S BME 445: Biosystems, Simulation and Control
2022S BME 503: Engineering Physiology II
2022F BME 558: Intro to Brain Machine Interfaces