Steven T. Walston, PhD

Steven Walston, PhD, is a retinal electrophysiologist and biomedical engineer specializing in the development and implementation of neural interface technologies. His research has focused on investigating electrical stimulation strategies to restore vision with retinal prostheses and on understanding neural effects of retinal degeneration. Additionally, his research has focused on the development of nanomaterial-based electrode technologies and their integration into flexible thin-film microelectrode arrays in efforts to further enhance the quality communication at the electrode-neural tissue interface.

• NIH: NIH Intramural Research Training Award, 2009
• NEI: NEI EY022931-S1, 2013
   – 2016
• Artificial Vision Symposium Travel Grant, 2015
• William Hansen Sandberg Memorial Foundation Scholarship, 2015

• Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN — BE — 2010 — Biomedical Engineering
• University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA — PhD — 2016 — Biomedical Engineering
• National GEM Consortium Fellowship — 2015 — Funding supported Postdoctoral research
• Whitaker International Scholarship — 2018 — Funding supported Postdoctoral research

• Shahidi, Mahnaz
• Craft, Cheryl
• Ameri, Hossein
• Chow, Robert
• Nagiel, Aaron
• Meng, Ellis