Paul Meadows on helping found IFESS and Imthera neurostimulation
Neural Implant podcast - the people behind Brain-Machine Interface revolutions
Release Date: 09/05/2023
Jotthe Kannappan on being a Venture Capitalist for minimally invasive medical technologies
Neural Implant podcast - the people behind Brain-Machine Interface revolutions
is an associate at which is all about converging robotic systems, digital tools, and clinical needs in search of new ways to understand, diagnose, treat and manage disease. ***This podcast is sponsored by Iris Biomedical, check out their Neurotech Startup Services Top 3 Takeaways: "It's not about rejection. It's about enabling the best possible fit between an entrepreneur and an investor who is able to who's able to really do what the company needs for them" "The typical things that stand out are really well clearly articulated message again about an unmet medical needs is something that...
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Benjamin Stecher on being a Parkinson's patient advocate
Neural Implant podcast - the people behind Brain-Machine Interface revolutions
runs a blog called the where he talks about his battle with Parkinson's disease. He has been implanted with a Deep Brain Stimulator an is also on the patient advisory board of Rune Labs where he gives them a perspective from the patient's point of view. ***This podcast is sponsored by Ripple Neuro, check out their Neuroscience Research Tools Top 3 Takeaways: "It got to the point where the Livadopa medication on-off fluctuations were so impairing to my daily life that I had maybe like an hour where I felt normal per day" "But to compare it to the medication now, it's night and day....
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Dr Melanie Ecker on conformal soft neural electrodes in the gut-brain axis
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is a professor at the focusing on smart polymers for biomedical applications. She has worked on conformal and biocompatible neural devices to study the electrophysiology of the enteric nervous system. ***This podcast is sponsored by Ripple Neuro, check out their Neuroscience Research Tools Top 3 Takeaways: The neurons in the gut-brain axis have not been investigated much by neural probes because of the softness of the intestines "The beauty about the intestines is in comparison to the brain, our probes, the electrodes don't need to be that tiny" The key to recruiting lots of good student...
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Dima Gazda and the prosthetic arm that learns with you by Esper Bionics
Neural Implant podcast - the people behind Brain-Machine Interface revolutions
Dima Gazda is the CEO and founder of which is a company that makes a prosthetic arm that gains abilities overtime with you. They plan to use this 'simple' neurotech solution to springboard them solve other larger neurotech problems. ***This podcast is sponsored by Iris Biomedical, check out their Neurotech Startup Services Top 3 Takeaways: We are building an ecosystem and will be building more products in addition to the robotic arm. Next will be a better user control system and then a robotic leg A physician can only add about 3000 patient-years of life but an engineer and...
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Lindsay Hartland on recruiting and being recruited at the highest levels in neurotech
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partners with Neuromodulation Device company Owners, Leaders, and Investors across the US & Europe to source the talent they need in order to succeed with Hanison Green Ltd. ***This podcast is sponsored by Iris Biomedical, check out their Neurotech Startup Services Top 3 Takeaways: Sometimes it's better to not hire somebody but rather have a part-time position or even have them work for free in exchange for shares or honor "The main challenge any company will find when looking to grow their business is the best people tend to be working in jobs that they quite like....
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Anuj Bhardwaj on the noninvasive ultrasound therapy for treating inflammation and pain from SecondWave Systems
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is the CEO of which is a wearable ultrasound noninvasive therapy especially for suppressing chronic inflammation and pain signals. ***This podcast is sponsored by Iris Biomedical, check out their Neurotech Startup Services Top 3 Takeaways: "We're going to use a disposable coupling component that a patient uses to adhere this and couple it to the body for 18 minutes while they remain in a reasonably sedentary condition. They would do that once a day." "The cost of the healthcare system is often between one to $200,000 per year for patients that take biologics like Enbrel. So that's a...
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Giovanni Lauricella how Neurotech Companies should find investments for their startups
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is the cofounder and managing partner at where they find people, money and insight for MedTech startup companies. Giovanni comes on a second time to talk about how to find investment for neurotech startups ***This podcast is sponsored by Iris Biomedical, check out their Neurotech Startup Services Top 3 Takeaways: "If you take bad money it could really ruin a company. Good money simplistically saying is- You find an investor who really knows how to add value to your company beyond simply writing you a check." "An investible story from the eyes of an investor is number one. And number two,...
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Dr. Talya Miron-Shatz on designing better neural devices using psychology and user interfaces
Neural Implant podcast - the people behind Brain-Machine Interface revolutions
is an author, researcher, and speaker who is the author of "" which is a book about medical decision making. She talks about the data generated from neuro devices and what patients can do with it. ***This podcast is sponsored by Ripple Neuro, check out their Neuroscience Research Tools Top 3 Takeaways: There is an opportunity to turn data generated by neuro medical devices into insights that are easy to digest "free, the data, free the data! And I was thinking - to whom? And what are they going to do with it? It's like someone delivering boxes upon boxes of papers to your front door. And...
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Dr Josh Siegle on large-scale electrophysiology and his Open Ephys Platform
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is a senior scientist working at the Allen Institute working on large-scale electrophysiology using tools like the Neuropixels probe. He is also heavily involved in the design and distribution of which is an open-source electrophysiology tool. ***This podcast is sponsored by Ripple Neuro, check out their Neuroscience Research Tools Top three takeaways: "The dark matter problem is where the number of cells that we record is almost always less than the number of cells that we actually know to be in the tissue around the electrodes. This could be because there are neurons near the...
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Andy Cornwell on the Cleveland Neuro Design Entrepreneurs Workshop
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is a return guest on the show and he is the Associate Director of the Case-Coulter Translational Research Partnership (CCTRP) in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Case Western Reserve University. He is currently putting together the second The deadline to submit is June 30th. ***This podcast is sponsored by Iris Biomedical, check out their Neurotech Startup Services Top 3 Takeaways: "The application deadline is June 30th and applications are open now. The workshop itself is September 22nd to 25th in-person here in Cleveland and the workshop is free to students. We provide you...
info_outlinePaul Meadows is one of the founding members of IFESS and a veteran in the neurotech industry. He is currently the Chief Technology Officer at Imthera in the development of neurostimulation device for obstructive sleep apnea. The company was recently acquired by LivaNova. Previous Meadows was involved with neurotech development at Advanced Bionics as well as the Alfred E. Mann Foundation.
Takeaways:
1. Current technology transfer developments are influenced by peer-reviewed published research.
2. Learn from the past so we don’t repeat in the future, applies to neurotech applications.
3. We still have technology challenges in such areas as cybersecurity and battery technology as well as systemic in clinical technology adoption.
[0:00] Ladan introduces the episode and joins the conversation with Paul Meadows and Jen French.
[1:02] Paul Meadows describes his involvement and various positions with IFESS since the inception of the organization.
[1:46] Discussion of his view of the evolution of IFESS over the years.
[2:35] Meadows describes the importance of peer-reviewed publications and the need to
review past research.
[3:43] There are obstacles for technology adoption such as clinical physical therapist curriculum.
[3:58] Meadow’s outlook for exciting developments in the next 5 years in miniaturization, packaging and user-friendly interfaces. This is accompanied by identified risks such as cybersecurity.
[5:52] Identifying that there is some basic science that is limiting technology advancements such as battery technology.