Anna Devor

Devor was an undergraduate student in Israel. She moved to the Hebrew University of Jerusalem for doctoral studies, where she studied biophysical mechanisms of membrane potential oscillations in a network of coupled neurons.[1] After earning her doctorate, she moved to the Massachusetts General Hospital to work as a postdoc in brain imaging technology.[2]

Devor launched her own research laboratory at University of California, San Diego in 2005, where she has worked on technologies that enable the real time detection of brain activity.[3] She combines these measurements with system-level analysis and functional magnetic resonance imaging.[2] She created a brain-computer interface that had a flexible backing with penetrating microneedles, which can interface with the human brain and record signals from nearby neurons.[4]

Devor has developed summer schools based on neuroimaging, microscopy and blood flow regulation.[5] Devor is the editor-in-chief of Neurophotonics, an SPIE journal.[6]

• The BRAIN Initiative awardee[7]
• International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine Outstanding Teacher Award[8]
• Elected Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering[9]

• Anna Devor; Andrew K Dunn; Mark L Andermann; Istvan Ulbert; David A Boas; Anders M Dale (1 July 2003). "Coupling of total hemoglobin concentration, oxygenation, and neural activity in rat somatosensory cortex". Neuron. 39 (2): 353–359. doi:10.1016/S0896-6273(03)00403-3. ISSN 0896-6273. PMID 12873390. Wikidata Q48249109.
• Sava Sakadzić; Emmanuel Roussakis; Mohammad A Yaseen; et al. (8 August 2010). "Two-photon high-resolution measurement of partial pressure of oxygen in cerebral vasculature and tissue". Nature Methods. 7 (9): 755–759. doi:10.1038/NMETH.1490. ISSN 1548-7091. PMC 2932799. PMID 20693997. Wikidata Q30986871.
• Anna Devor; Peifang Tian; Nozomi Nishimura; et al. (1 April 2007). "Suppressed neuronal activity and concurrent arteriolar vasoconstriction may explain negative blood oxygenation level-dependent signal". The Journal of Neuroscience. 27 (16): 4452–4459. doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0134-07.2007. ISSN 0270-6474. PMC 2680207. PMID 17442830. Wikidata Q37187155.