Michael Kelley Erb PhD

Michael Kelley Erb is a Principal Investigator at the Biogen. Kelley Erb received his bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, and a Doctor of Philosophy in Anatomy and Neurobiology at the Boston University School of Medicine. In the Bergethon Lab, Kelley has several ongoing projects including an evaluation of the sensitivity and specificity of sensory evoked potentials for the detection and real-time monitoring of stroke as well as the application of diffuse optical spectroscopy in both neuromuscular and cerebrovascular physiology. His thesis work is focused on the elucidation of an optical response to peripheral nerve stimulation, which likely derives from structural changes associated with muscle contraction. Diffuse optical imagining is non-invasive, and this signal could contain myological information of both clinical and research value.