Todd Kuiken

· Professor of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation

Northwestern University · Chemical Engineering

Active 1994–2024

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Citations26.2k

Papers45734 last 5y

Funding$10.0M1 active

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Todd Kuiken is a Professor of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation at Northwestern University, affiliated with the Master of Science in Robotics Program. His research interests include prosthetic control systems, utilizing nerve-muscle grafts to obtain additional myoelectric control signals, bioelectromagnetics modeling, prosthetic design, human gait, and the care of amputees. He is a practicing Physiatrist and serves as the Director of Amputee Services at the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago. Dr. Kuiken's clinical focus encompasses the care of individuals with limb loss, amputee pain, phantom limb pain, gait disorders, spinal cord injury, fitting of orthotic devices, and patient emotional well-being. His work integrates engineering, rehabilitation, and clinical expertise to improve outcomes for amputees and advance prosthetic technologies.

Research topics

Computer Science
Biology
Ecology
Political Science
Artificial Intelligence
Simulation
Natural resource economics
Human–computer interaction
Geography
Finance

Selected publications

Toward higher-performance bionic limbs for wider clinical use
Nature Biomedical Engineering · 2021 · 261 citations
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User Performance With a Transradial Multi-Articulating Hand Prosthesis During Pattern Recognition and Direct Control Home Use
IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering · 2022-11-10 · 38 citations
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With the increasing availability of more advanced prostheses individuals with a transradial amputation can now be fit with single to multi-degree of freedom hands. Reliable and accurate control of these multi-grip hands still remains challenging. This is the first multi-user study to investigate at-home control and use of a multi-grip hand prosthesis under pattern recognition and direct control. Individuals with a transradial amputation were fitted with and trained to use an OSSUR i-Limb Ultra R…
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Myoelectric prosthesis hand grasp control following targeted muscle reinnervation in individuals with transradial amputation
PLoS ONE · 2023-01-26 · 25 citations
articleOpen accessSenior authorCorresponding
BACKGROUND: Despite the growing availability of multifunctional prosthetic hands, users' control and overall functional abilities with these hands remain limited. The combination of pattern recognition control and targeted muscle reinnervation (TMR) surgery, an innovative technique where amputated nerves are transferred to reinnervate new muscle targets in the residual limb, has been used to improve prosthesis control of individuals with more proximal upper limb amputations (i.e., shoulder disar…
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Genome Editing in Latin America: Regional Regulatory Overview
2021-07-01 · 21 citations
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El poder y la promesa de la edición génica, especificamente con tecnologías basadas en CRISPR (Repeticiones Palidrómicas Cortas Agrupadas y Regularmente Espaciadas, o Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindormic Repeats, por sus siglas en inglés), se hizo realidad con el descubrimiento de los procesos de CRISPR en bacterias y arqueas en la década de 1980. Desde entonces, los sistemas CRISPR-CAS se han desarrollado aún más, permitiendo la edición de genomas en prácticamente todos los organis…
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Realizing Present and Future Promise of DIY Biology and Medicine through a Trust Architecture
The Hastings Center Report · 2020-11-01 · 14 citations
articleOpen access
The speed and scale of the COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the limits of current health systems and the potential promise of non-establishment research such as "DIY" research. We consider one example of how DIY research is responding to the pandemic, discuss the challenges faced by DIY research more generally, and suggest that a "trust architecture" should be developed now to contribute to successful future DIY efforts.
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Recent grants

NIH Grant R01HD043137
NIH · $982k · 2009
NIH Grant R01HD04479801
NIH · $163k · 2006
NIH Grant R01HD04313701
NIH · $218k · 2008

Frequent coauthors

Dudley S. Childress
Canadian Standards Association
613 shared
Daniel P. Ferris
University of Florida
612 shared
Hojjat Adeli
The Ohio State University
612 shared
Joseph Lillie
X-Fab (Germany)
612 shared
Witold Kinsner
University of Manitoba
612 shared
C José
Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
612 shared
James Jefferies
Glasgow Royal Infirmary
612 shared
Kara Mcarthur
Pasadena City College
612 shared

Education

Ph.D., Environmental Science
Tennessee Technological University
2007
master of arts, Environmental Resource Policy
George Washington University
2003
Bachelor of Science, Environmental Management and Technology
Rochester Institute of Technology
2000

Awards & honors

American Academy of Orthotists and Prosthetists, Member
American Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Me…
Association of Academic Physiatrists, Member
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Member
International Society of Prosthetics and Orthotics, Member

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