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"This brought me hope,” a PRIMA patient said. “It literally changed my life.”
Read more in @time.com time.com/7330887/brai...
Read more in @time.com time.com/7330887/brai...
November 7, 2025 at 1:29 PM
"This brought me hope,” a PRIMA patient said. “It literally changed my life.”
Read more in @time.com time.com/7330887/brai...
Read more in @time.com time.com/7330887/brai...
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Must-read #NYBCI25 coverage by @neurotechnology.substack.com in @forbes.com.
My key takeaway on cognitive BCI: Our biggest limiting factor isn't tech—it's fundamental scientific understanding.
We can’t advance the tech until we define the disorder. Basic research must lead the way!
My key takeaway on cognitive BCI: Our biggest limiting factor isn't tech—it's fundamental scientific understanding.
We can’t advance the tech until we define the disorder. Basic research must lead the way!
@mountsinainyc.bsky.social's #BrainComputerInterface Symposium has cemented itself as a must-attend for those interested in the nexus of brain health & implanted technologies. This is a MUST READ, in-depth summary of #NYBCI25 penned for @forbes.com by Naveen Rao 👉 www.forbes.com/sites/naveen...
October 23, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Must-read #NYBCI25 coverage by @neurotechnology.substack.com in @forbes.com.
My key takeaway on cognitive BCI: Our biggest limiting factor isn't tech—it's fundamental scientific understanding.
We can’t advance the tech until we define the disorder. Basic research must lead the way!
My key takeaway on cognitive BCI: Our biggest limiting factor isn't tech—it's fundamental scientific understanding.
We can’t advance the tech until we define the disorder. Basic research must lead the way!
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petition to return to when online looked like this
September 16, 2025 at 2:28 AM
petition to return to when online looked like this
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An interesting study on biotech failure: open.substack.com/pub/age1/p/a...
September 3, 2025 at 11:04 PM
An interesting study on biotech failure: open.substack.com/pub/age1/p/a...
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Georgia Tech Is Teaching Other Universities a Fundraising Lesson — via @wsj.com + @nidhisubs.bsky.social
www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...
www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...
August 30, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Georgia Tech Is Teaching Other Universities a Fundraising Lesson — via @wsj.com + @nidhisubs.bsky.social
www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...
www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...
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Oeps, correct link is: rdcu.be/eCB2v
Neurofeedback and Brain–Machine Interfaces: Where are We Now?
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August 27, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Oeps, correct link is: rdcu.be/eCB2v
Neurotech futures
August 29, 2025 at 12:24 AM
Neurotech futures
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We are hiring electrical engineers, cell biologists and microfabrication engineers to join our founding team!
We're looking for smart and caring people. If that's you please apply, or tag someone who is incredible. 🚀 🧠
axoneurotech.com/careers
We're looking for smart and caring people. If that's you please apply, or tag someone who is incredible. 🚀 🧠
axoneurotech.com/careers
Axo | Careers
Build at the frontier of biology and engineering
axoneurotech.com
August 7, 2025 at 10:24 PM
We are hiring electrical engineers, cell biologists and microfabrication engineers to join our founding team!
We're looking for smart and caring people. If that's you please apply, or tag someone who is incredible. 🚀 🧠
axoneurotech.com/careers
We're looking for smart and caring people. If that's you please apply, or tag someone who is incredible. 🚀 🧠
axoneurotech.com/careers
The horrendous ads on the site that published this uninspired article are worse for people's privacy and well-being than any neurotech. But yes...neuroethics and neurorights *waves hands*
#Neurotech has the potential to heal millions...or expose our thoughts, moods, and memories. As #brain computer interfaces go mainstream, mental #privacy is on the line. #MirageNews asks, how do we strike a balance between #innovation and protection? bit.ly/45oVNwp #ethics #neuroethics #neurorights
August 9, 2025 at 1:42 AM
The horrendous ads on the site that published this uninspired article are worse for people's privacy and well-being than any neurotech. But yes...neuroethics and neurorights *waves hands*
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My cartoon in this weeks @newyorker.com
June 30, 2025 at 2:40 PM
My cartoon in this weeks @newyorker.com
#Neurotech Notables #31: May 1-15, 2025
Partnership Bonanza! Also: Funding, Reg news, ethics discourse, cool videos, & more.
Please Read, Favorite, Share, and Subscribe today!
neurotechnology.substack.com/p/notables-31
Partnership Bonanza! Also: Funding, Reg news, ethics discourse, cool videos, & more.
Please Read, Favorite, Share, and Subscribe today!
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Neurotech Notables #31: May 1-15, 2025
New Partnership Bonanza
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May 17, 2025 at 5:42 PM
#Neurotech Notables #31: May 1-15, 2025
Partnership Bonanza! Also: Funding, Reg news, ethics discourse, cool videos, & more.
Please Read, Favorite, Share, and Subscribe today!
neurotechnology.substack.com/p/notables-31
Partnership Bonanza! Also: Funding, Reg news, ethics discourse, cool videos, & more.
Please Read, Favorite, Share, and Subscribe today!
neurotechnology.substack.com/p/notables-31
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Atlanta friends, I want to extend a special invitation to have you join us for a really unique event we're hosting on May 7 called "Wired Lives: Personal Stories of Brain Implants": neuro.gatech.edu/wired-lives-...
Wired Lives: Personal Stories of Brain Implants | Neuro Next Initiative
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April 23, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Atlanta friends, I want to extend a special invitation to have you join us for a really unique event we're hosting on May 7 called "Wired Lives: Personal Stories of Brain Implants": neuro.gatech.edu/wired-lives-...
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Trump proposes massive NIH budget cut and reorganization
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.science.org/content/arti...
Trump proposes massive NIH budget cut and reorganization
Will Republican-led Congress support a 44% decrease for world’s largest medical research funder?
www.science.org
April 20, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Trump proposes massive NIH budget cut and reorganization
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.science.org/content/arti...
Which #neurotech #neuromodulation #bci practitioners can help me draw up a parallel R&D framework for the field?
There are 3 types of R&D:
Basic research: new knowledge, don’t yet have an intended purpose (e.g. observe a planet’s orbit)
Applied research: have an intended purpose (e.g. improve battery efficiency)
Development: make a vegan McRib
Applied research & development funding have seen bigger cuts.
Basic research: new knowledge, don’t yet have an intended purpose (e.g. observe a planet’s orbit)
Applied research: have an intended purpose (e.g. improve battery efficiency)
Development: make a vegan McRib
Applied research & development funding have seen bigger cuts.
April 20, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Which #neurotech #neuromodulation #bci practitioners can help me draw up a parallel R&D framework for the field?
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Did you know that neuroscience played a key role in AI’s development?
Artificial Intelligence: From Mind to Machine explores how brain research led to artificial neural networks, machine learning, and modern AI.
Watch the documentary with #TheBrainPrize2024 winners: brainprize.org/winners/comp...
Artificial Intelligence: From Mind to Machine explores how brain research led to artificial neural networks, machine learning, and modern AI.
Watch the documentary with #TheBrainPrize2024 winners: brainprize.org/winners/comp...
March 19, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Did you know that neuroscience played a key role in AI’s development?
Artificial Intelligence: From Mind to Machine explores how brain research led to artificial neural networks, machine learning, and modern AI.
Watch the documentary with #TheBrainPrize2024 winners: brainprize.org/winners/comp...
Artificial Intelligence: From Mind to Machine explores how brain research led to artificial neural networks, machine learning, and modern AI.
Watch the documentary with #TheBrainPrize2024 winners: brainprize.org/winners/comp...
🗞️🧠⚙️ #NEUROTECH NOTABLES #29
$200 million in new capital
New positive phase 2/3 readouts, regulatory wins,
Newcos, emergence from stealth, new product launches, exec appointments, fresh market research and more:
open.substack.com/pub/neurotec...
$200 million in new capital
New positive phase 2/3 readouts, regulatory wins,
Newcos, emergence from stealth, new product launches, exec appointments, fresh market research and more:
open.substack.com/pub/neurotec...
Neurotech Notables #29: April 1-15
April showers, Animal models, & Easter eggs
open.substack.com
April 18, 2025 at 12:34 AM
🗞️🧠⚙️ #NEUROTECH NOTABLES #29
$200 million in new capital
New positive phase 2/3 readouts, regulatory wins,
Newcos, emergence from stealth, new product launches, exec appointments, fresh market research and more:
open.substack.com/pub/neurotec...
$200 million in new capital
New positive phase 2/3 readouts, regulatory wins,
Newcos, emergence from stealth, new product launches, exec appointments, fresh market research and more:
open.substack.com/pub/neurotec...
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Trump officials’ decision to prioritize autism comes amid a broader slowdown in NIH funding for other initiatives.
As of last week, NIH funding was lagging billions of dollars behind its traditional pace for research awards, including studies on cancer, heart disease, and mental health.
As of last week, NIH funding was lagging billions of dollars behind its traditional pace for research awards, including studies on cancer, heart disease, and mental health.
See this chart for one stark example: NIH funding has dramatically slowed down.
Grant awards are down *$3 billion* so far, compared to same time period last year
I asked the White House to explain.
“This is not a researcher entitlement program,” said an official, defending their new approach.
Grant awards are down *$3 billion* so far, compared to same time period last year
I asked the White House to explain.
“This is not a researcher entitlement program,” said an official, defending their new approach.
April 4, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Trump officials’ decision to prioritize autism comes amid a broader slowdown in NIH funding for other initiatives.
As of last week, NIH funding was lagging billions of dollars behind its traditional pace for research awards, including studies on cancer, heart disease, and mental health.
As of last week, NIH funding was lagging billions of dollars behind its traditional pace for research awards, including studies on cancer, heart disease, and mental health.
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NIH cuts hurt companies like Motif Neurotech. We are fortunate to have resources for clinical trials, but companies relying on NIH are struggling.
Every day new therapies are delayed, people suffer.
🙏 Dan Gilbert for speaking to us & raising awareness
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
Every day new therapies are delayed, people suffer.
🙏 Dan Gilbert for speaking to us & raising awareness
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
Biotech start-ups struggle as Trump throttles NIH funding
Freezes and reductions in National Institutes of Health funding are reverberating beyond universities and research labs to startups in the biotech industry.
www.washingtonpost.com
April 6, 2025 at 2:54 PM
NIH cuts hurt companies like Motif Neurotech. We are fortunate to have resources for clinical trials, but companies relying on NIH are struggling.
Every day new therapies are delayed, people suffer.
🙏 Dan Gilbert for speaking to us & raising awareness
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
Every day new therapies are delayed, people suffer.
🙏 Dan Gilbert for speaking to us & raising awareness
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
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(Forbes) Inner Cosmos, outer expansion: psychiatric #BCI gears up for prime time www.forbes.com/sites/naveen... by @neurotechnology.substack.com; "the pill mimics transcranial magnetic stimulation, pulsing into specific targets in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex"; #NeuroTech
Inner Cosmos, Outer Expansion: Psychiatric BCI Gears Up For Prime Time
Psychiatric BCI is expanding the field. Inner Cosmos' digital pill offers insights into the future of neurotechnology
www.forbes.com
April 3, 2025 at 7:51 AM
(Forbes) Inner Cosmos, outer expansion: psychiatric #BCI gears up for prime time www.forbes.com/sites/naveen... by @neurotechnology.substack.com; "the pill mimics transcranial magnetic stimulation, pulsing into specific targets in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex"; #NeuroTech
I wrote about a psychiatric brain computer interface that has now been tested in 3 people.
It's early, but after meeting many of the company's leaders, as well as a person in his second year of using the device, it seemed real to me.
www.forbes.com/sites/naveen...
It's early, but after meeting many of the company's leaders, as well as a person in his second year of using the device, it seemed real to me.
www.forbes.com/sites/naveen...
April 3, 2025 at 7:43 AM
I wrote about a psychiatric brain computer interface that has now been tested in 3 people.
It's early, but after meeting many of the company's leaders, as well as a person in his second year of using the device, it seemed real to me.
www.forbes.com/sites/naveen...
It's early, but after meeting many of the company's leaders, as well as a person in his second year of using the device, it seemed real to me.
www.forbes.com/sites/naveen...
Neurotech Notables #28: With health agencies on fire, US leadership in neurotechnology will surely lose a step compared to before. The rebuild/repair era is still months, if not years away. Curious to see how leaders in the private sector respond.
neurotechnology.substack.com/p/notables-28
neurotechnology.substack.com/p/notables-28
Neurotech Notables #28: March 18-31
Brain simulation, collision of AI & brain data continues, smoke and mirrors abound.
neurotechnology.substack.com
April 2, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Neurotech Notables #28: With health agencies on fire, US leadership in neurotechnology will surely lose a step compared to before. The rebuild/repair era is still months, if not years away. Curious to see how leaders in the private sector respond.
neurotechnology.substack.com/p/notables-28
neurotechnology.substack.com/p/notables-28
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The latest in our #NeuroAI series, from Eva Dyer and @tyrellturing.bsky.social , with comments from @clopathlab.bsky.social, @kordinglab.bsky.social, @memming.bsky.social, @pessoabrain.bsky.social, @computingnature.bsky.social, @sussillodavid.bsky.social and others
How can we make progress in developing a general model of neural computation rather than a series of disjointed models tied to specific experimental circumstances, ask Eva Dyer and @tyrellturing.bsky.social in the latest entry in our NeuroAI series.
www.thetransmitter.org/neuroai/acce...
www.thetransmitter.org/neuroai/acce...
Accepting “bitter lesson” and embracing brain’s complexity
To gain insight into complex neural data, we must move toward a data-driven regime, employing large models trained on vast amounts of data. Experts weigh in.
www.thetransmitter.org
March 26, 2025 at 6:19 PM
The latest in our #NeuroAI series, from Eva Dyer and @tyrellturing.bsky.social , with comments from @clopathlab.bsky.social, @kordinglab.bsky.social, @memming.bsky.social, @pessoabrain.bsky.social, @computingnature.bsky.social, @sussillodavid.bsky.social and others
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Not to toot my own horn, but Neuromatch's NeuroAI course is one of the best places to learn about this exciting area of neuroscience. Students and postdocs, apply!
🚨 Neuromatch Academy Course Applications are OPEN for 2025!! 🚨
Get your application in early to be a student or teaching assistant for this year’s courses!
Applications are due Sunday, March 23.
Apply & learn more: neuromatch.io/courses/
#mlsky #compneurosky #ai #climatesolutions #ScienceEdu 🧪
Get your application in early to be a student or teaching assistant for this year’s courses!
Applications are due Sunday, March 23.
Apply & learn more: neuromatch.io/courses/
#mlsky #compneurosky #ai #climatesolutions #ScienceEdu 🧪
March 17, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Not to toot my own horn, but Neuromatch's NeuroAI course is one of the best places to learn about this exciting area of neuroscience. Students and postdocs, apply!
I'm not great at promoting my work...but I published an analysis of fundraising activity in the #neurotech industry last week!
$2.3 Billion into 129 Deals, by stage, category, market, geography and more.
Give it a click. Subscribe for more!
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$2.3 Billion into 129 Deals, by stage, category, market, geography and more.
Give it a click. Subscribe for more!
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2024 Neurotech Funding Snapshot
🤑 $2.3 Billion Across 129 Deals: Analyzing a (historic) year of fundraising
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March 11, 2025 at 1:21 PM
I'm not great at promoting my work...but I published an analysis of fundraising activity in the #neurotech industry last week!
$2.3 Billion into 129 Deals, by stage, category, market, geography and more.
Give it a click. Subscribe for more!
neurotechnology.substack.com/p/2024-fundi...
$2.3 Billion into 129 Deals, by stage, category, market, geography and more.
Give it a click. Subscribe for more!
neurotechnology.substack.com/p/2024-fundi...
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Great snapshot from @neurotechnology.substack.com on 2024 Neurotech funding!
Link: open.substack.com/pub/neurotec...
Link: open.substack.com/pub/neurotec...
March 5, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Great snapshot from @neurotechnology.substack.com on 2024 Neurotech funding!
Link: open.substack.com/pub/neurotec...
Link: open.substack.com/pub/neurotec...