Drew Beauchamp

James "Drew" Beauchamp is an Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University, with a joint appointment in the Neuroscience Institute. He received his Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering (Neural Engineering) from Northwestern University, where he studied how brainstem neuromodulatory inputs to spinal motoneurons contribute to deficits in human motor function, working with Julius Dewald and CJ Heckman. He then completed postdoctoral training in Mechanical Engineering with Doug Weber at Carnegie Mellon University, where he investigated neuromodulatory stimulation for pain treatment. He also holds a B.S.E. and M.S. in Biomedical Engineering from Arizona State University. Dr. Beauchamp’s lab develops and applies neurotechnology to study the central nervous system from its output layer, using spinal motoneurons to estimate upstream signaling within spinal, cortical, and subcortical structures. The group asks how people control movement, what changes in neural pathology and injury, and whether function can be restored using neurotechnology.