Giacomo Valle on working with patients, animals, and computational models for neurotech
Neural Implant podcast - the people behind Brain-Machine Interface revolutions
Release Date: 08/15/2022
Damiano G. Barone on being a neurosurgeon and improving patient quality of life through surgery
Neural Implant podcast - the people behind Brain-Machine Interface revolutions
is a neurosurgery clinical lecturer at the University of Cambridge and fellow at The Walton Centre in Liverpool, UK. He is interested in tackling basic and translational challenges for the development of the next generation of neural bioelectronics. ***This podcast is sponsored by Ripple Neuro, check out their Neuroscience Research Tools Top 3 Takeaways: "My favorite procedure is the procedure that works and you see the patient after that is is a changed patient." "You come out from medical school like age 23 or 24. Then you get to a general medical program which in the...
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Jon Sakai on interacting with your target patients and the neural sleeve made by Cionic
Neural Implant podcast - the people behind Brain-Machine Interface revolutions
is the Head of Commercialization at , a wearable neurostimulator sleeve for those with neuromuscular disease ***This podcast is sponsored by Iris Biomedical, check out their Neurotech Startup Services Top 3 Takeaways: "There isn't any individualized training that needs to happen. What needs to happen is the identification of which muscle groups need support and have those turned on and programmed in intensity appropriately." "We were able to improve door sub selection and inversion in more than 90% of our participants." "There's nothing like getting an appreciation for a problem like the...
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Hannah Claridge on helping small neurotech companies with R&D work at TTP
Neural Implant podcast - the people behind Brain-Machine Interface revolutions
is the Head of Neurotechnology at which is a consultancy that helps neurotech companies create the next generation of medical devices. ***This podcast is sponsored by Iris Biomedical, check out their Neurotech Startup Services Top 3 Takeaways: "I think consulting is really fantastic for the variety that it offers you. Not just in terms of seeing problems, but also working with different types of companies, different types of technologies, and having different day-to-day activities as well" "There have been cases where we've worked with very small companies where the company is composed...
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Lindsey Jardine talks all about clinical trials for neurotech
Neural Implant podcast - the people behind Brain-Machine Interface revolutions
is a clinical project manager at Boston Scientific which had acquired , a cardiac ablation medical device company she was working in. She runs clinical trials for medtech companies and had done so for neurotech companies as well. ***This podcast is sponsored by Iris Biomedical, check out their Neurotech Startup Services Top 3 Takeaways: "One of the most difficult things that I've found while you're actually running the study, is making sure those devices are getting to the sites, which is depending on where your manufacturer is" Hiring a Contract Research Organization (CRO) or hiring...
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Dan Brounstein on how closed loop Spinal Cord Stimulation has better efficacy at Saluda
Neural Implant podcast - the people behind Brain-Machine Interface revolutions
Dan Brounstein is Chief Strategy Officer at Saluda Medical where he is using his 15 years of Spinal Chord Stimulator experience to help deliver closed-loop pain relief directly to the spinal cord. ***This podcast is sponsored by Iris Biomedical, check out their Neurotech Startup Services Top 3 Takeaways: "We're stimulating with milliamps and we're trying to measure in microvolts, and we always use the analogy trying to listen to a pin drop next to a shotgun shot" "There's a lot of literature on loss of efficacy? It's just a therapy issue. When you deliver open-loop therapies blind...
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Dr Angelique Johnson on starting a Medical Device Outsource Manufacturer, MEMStim
Neural Implant podcast - the people behind Brain-Machine Interface revolutions
is the founder and CEO of which is a leading global medical device outsource manufacturer (MDO) serving the neurostimulation market, based in Louisville, KY. ***This podcast is sponsored by Iris Biomedical, check out their Neurotech Startup Services Top 3 Takeaways: "Our true competitors are actually not microfab but actually hand assembly, manual assembly" "I'm an accidental entrepreneur- the more I pitched, the more I thought about the business idea, the more I talked to actual customers the more I realized like, Hey, there's actually a need and we actually have a pretty good revenue...
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John Seymour on directional depth arrays and the future of neurosurgery
Neural Implant podcast - the people behind Brain-Machine Interface revolutions
is an in Neurosurgery and at where his lab works on electrophysiology studies, biophysics modeling, and applying machine learning models to decoding of neural activity. A major project in our lab is focused on developing a long-term brain-machine interface for the treatment of aphasia or locked-in syndrome. ***This podcast is sponsored by Ripple Neuro, check out their Neuroscience Research Tools Top 3 Takeaways: "Your job as the engineer is to create a high resolution map of a crowd's vocalization during some live event, the rules are, you only get the place, say 10 or 20 devices...
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Andre Mercanzini on revolutionizing Deep Brain Stimulation using small directional probes by Aleva Neuro
Neural Implant podcast - the people behind Brain-Machine Interface revolutions
is the Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer at which has worked in directional Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) device leads for Parkinson's and other diseases. ***This podcast is sponsored by Iris Biomedical, check out their Neurotech Startup Services Top 3 Takeaways: "We realized during that time that the intervention that could benefit the most from the miniaturization technologies was by far and away, deep brain stimulation." "MEMS allowed us to align every single electrode into its position, have it almost prewired and decrease the amount of touch time that an operator would...
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Vasiliki Giagka on Neural Interface Packaging and why it's the most important
Neural Implant podcast - the people behind Brain-Machine Interface revolutions
is an and where she conducts research on the design and fabrication of active neural interfaces. ***This podcast is sponsored by Ripple Neuro, check out their Neuroscience Research Tools Top 3 Takeaways: "Water vapor is not dangerous for neural devices, it will not cause your metals to corrode, as long as it remains in the form of vapor. The moment it condenses into liquid water and you have ions in there, is when corrosion can start, and that is the beginning of the end" Conformal polymer coatings have been implanted in bodies for decades but we lack means to prove upfront the amount of...
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Jacob George on implantable and wearable neurotech research at the University of Utah
Neural Implant podcast - the people behind Brain-Machine Interface revolutions
is an assistant professor at the University of Utah where his seeks to augment biological neural networks with artificial neural networks and bionic devices to treat neurological disorders and to further our understanding of neural processing. ***This podcast is sponsored by Ripple Neuro, check out their Neuroscience Research Tools Top 3 Takeaways: "I'm 28 years old. So very young still getting stuff set up and really kickstarting it. The average age that NIH states for someone to get an R01 is somewhere around 47 years old and they really wanna change that. They wanna get people into...
info_outlineGiacomo Valle is a post-doc researcher at ETH Zurich working in the Neuroengineering Lab to find tools for neurologically disabled amputees and diabetic persons. They look at how to decode from devices and what that would look like for the development of new devices.
***This podcast is sponsored by Ripple Neuro, check out their Neuroscience Research Tools here***
Top 3 Takeaways:
- "We're working on the sensory feedback restoration in people where there is a sensory loss due to neuropathy. The limbs are there there is sensory loss due to the degeneration and neuropathic degeneration. And then with electrical simulation is possible to provide sensation back,"
- The secret to having an H-index of 17 as a Post-Doc is to have a passion for what you do an to work long hours with great people
- Simulations can take a long time to set up and one bad variable can mess up a week's worth of work but gives you flexibility to work anywhere; Animal work means you can't take vacations but you can do more experiments; Patient work is rewarding because you develop bonds with them but sometimes are limited by experiments
0:45 "Do you want to introduce yourself?"
3:30 "How does your work work?"
6:15 "What kind of devices do you use and what kind of bandwidth is involved?"
9:00 Sponsorship by Ripple Neuro
9:30 "You do seem to have a lot about computation and modeling. What role does this play in your research?"
13:00 "How good are the simulation predictions?"
19:30 "5 or 10 years down the line, what would your research lead to?"
22:45 "You have an H index of 17, which is crazy for a post-doc. What's your secret?"
25:45 "You've worked with patients, computational work, and animal work. You have these three perspectives of research, which is the easiest, which is the hardest, what are the advantages and disadvantages of all of those?"
30:30 "What do you think will be some future breakthroughs in this work and what does the future look like?"
33:15 "How much longer before you get implanted?"
34:45 "If you had unlimited funding, what would you spend it on?"
37:30 "Is there anything that we didn't talk about that you wanted to mention?"