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The PacemakerProfessor Firat Guder: AI Adjustable Prosthetic Liners with UnhindrDr. Firat Guder is a professor in Intelligent Interfaces in the Department of Bioengineering at Imperial College London. Dr. Guder and his research group work in the intersection of material science, electronics, computing, biology and chemistry to develop intelligent interfaces to connect complex biological systems with machines. Dr. Guder's work has, in part, led to starting Unhindr, a startup focused on developing dynamically adjustable prosthetic liners for people with amputations. This episode focuses on the motivation, challenges, and promises of this important work.2023-06-061h 06The PacemakerShivam Sharma: Rapid Medical Data Annotation with Redbrick AIShivam Sharma is the CEO of Redbrick AI, a company which has developed a platform for rapid medical data annotation that is both assisted by automatic segmentation algorithms and optimized for medical data formats. Redbrick AI's platform is already in use by health centers and medical device companies.2023-05-2251 minThe PacemakerDr. Amar Sawhney: Cultivating Medical Innovation at Incept LLCDr. Amar Sawhney is a co-founder and managing partner of Incept LLC, an investment firm holding a large and diverse rolodex of life sciences companies. Many of the companies held by Incept stem from Dr. Sawhney's own graduate work in tissue engineering, and their products span many different specialties and applications. In addition to his role as managing partner, Dr. Sawhney also runs some of these companies himself, including Instylla, Rejoni, and Pramand LLC. In total, Dr. Sawhney has himself founded ten companies, accounting for over $3 billion in revenue to date. His work is truly awe inspiring in its breadth...2023-05-0557 minThe PacemakerDr. Rob Swain: Planning and Running a Medical Device Clinical TrialDr. Rob Swain is the founder of RESound Clinical Consulting, which helps medical device companies with their preclinical, clinical, and regulatory strategy. This episode taps into Rob's deep knowledge of the ins and outs of running a clinical trial. We get into many aspects of this topic including how to decide you are ready to run one, how to plan the study including selecting a facility, appropriate risk level, and study objectives, and how to run the study. This episode is on the longer side, but offers many important tips to medical device developers on a step that is crucial...2023-03-231h 03The PacemakerDr. Dan Gray: New Product Development and Biomedical Optics with Gray OpticsDr. Dan Gray is the founder of Gray Optics (www.grayoptics.com), a design and development house specializing in optics for biomedical, life sciences, and industrial applications. Besides being an expert in biomedical optics, Dan has also used his experience at Gray Optics to develop insights into medical device product development, useful for startups and larger companies alike. As a follow up to the conversation, you can also check out Dan's blog at www.opticsdan.com.2023-03-1656 minThe PacemakerGiovanna Forte: Patient-Focused Urine Collection for Improved Accuracy and Patient ExperienceGiovanna Forte is the CEO and founder of Forte Medical, a London-based startup focused on revolutionizing urine collection and urine-based diagnostics. Forte Medical has developed and commercialized Peezy Midstream, a urine collection method that has been clinically proven to increase the accuracy of urine testing, in part due to its improvement to the patient experience. By improving accuracy through usability, Forte demonstrates how human factors can be just as important as technology in ensuring the efficacy of medical devices.2023-03-0942 minThe PacemakerDr. Erik Duhaime: Crowdsourced Medical Data Annotation with Centaur LabsDr. Erik Duhaime is the CEO and co-founder of Centaur Labs, a crowdsourced medical data annotation platform allowing students and professionals from around the world to label medical data for use in AI applications, which are rapidly multiplying in the medical device space. Through a combination of gamefication, performance measurement, and consensus algorithms, Centaur Labs has harnessed the collective intelligence of a network of experts to achieve impressive results in both scale and accuracy.2023-03-0254 minThe PacemakerProfessor Dario Farina: Future of Human-Machine Interfacing for Controlling Artificial LimbsProfessor Dario Farina of Imperial College London is one of the world's leading scientists in human-machine interfacing, specifically for the control of movement in artificial limbs and exoskeletons. In this technology-focused conversation, Professor Farina describes the biggest challenges in the field and the work he and others are doing to bridge the gap between the biological and the manmade worlds.2023-02-2357 minThe PacemakerKevin Kalish: Circulating the Cerebrospinal Fluid for Drug Delivery with Enclear TherapiesKevin Kalish is the COO of Enclear Therapies, a biotechnology company that has developed a novel platform for delivering therapeutics to hard-to-reach areas of the central nervous system by circulating the Cerebrospinal Fluid. Enclear's innovative technology holds promise as a means to treat a variety of neuro-oncological and neurodegenerative diseases. In this conversation with Kevin, we discuss the technology, its initial indications, its promises, and the challenges that must be overcome to get there.2023-02-0857 minThe PacemakerProfessor James Moore: Faciliflow for Breast Cancer Associated LymphedemaProfessor James Moore of Imperial College London is developing an implant called Faciliflow to treat breast cancer-associated lymphedema. This condition occurs as a result of the removal of lymph nodes during breast cancer surgery, and can cause chronic, painful swelling of the arm for the rest of the patient's life. One of the key advantages of this approach is that it can be implemented at the time of the original surgery, which means that patients can potentially avoid the debilitating effects of lymphedema altogether. This innovative implant has the potential to greatly improve the quality of life for breast cancer...2023-01-2636 minThe PacemakerDr. Gregory Martin: Five Lessons in Medical Device EntrepreneurshipDr. Gregory Martin is a medical device executive and entrepreneur with over 25 years of experience in industry, academia, and consulting. Greg imparts his wisdom by sharing five important lessons in medical device conceptualization, development, and commercialization.2023-01-1951 minThe PacemakerDr. Alex Nemiroski: DNA Sequencing Past, Present, and FutureDr. Alex Nemiroski is an industry expert in DNA sequencing, as well as the founder and CEO of BioNexus Consulting, whose mission is to enable life sciences companies to bring disruptive tools to market at lightning speed. We discuss the past, present, and future of DNA sequencing, including both its medical and non-medical applications.2023-01-131h 00The PacemakerDr. Cameron Taylor: Magnetomicrometry for Prosthetic ControlDr. Cameron Taylor is a research scientist at the K. Lisa Yang Center for Bionics at MIT, co-directed by Professor Hugh Herr. Cameron's work led to the development of magnetomicrometry, a new technique enabling precise, real-time tracking of muscle contraction during movement. Cameron's work has exciting prospects for the control of wearable robotics including prostheses and exoskeletons, and is not too far away from being tried out in humans. Listen to learn more!2022-12-2149 minThe PacemakerDr. John Samuelsson: Reading the Cerebellum with EncephalographyDr. John Samuelsson is a medical data scientist and graduate of the MIT Health Sciences and Technology program. For his PhD, he explored the use of encephalography to sense activity in the cerebellum, a structure at the back of the brain that has an extremely high density of neurons and is critical for movement, coordination, and attention. His work could lead to new monitoring and diagnostic approaches aimed at cerebellar pathologies.2022-12-1438 minThe PacemakerProfessor James Choi: Focused on Focused UltrasoundDr. James Choi is an associate professor at Imperial College London and is one of the world's leading experts on focused ultrasound (FUS), a technology with huge therapeutic potential for neurological diseases. Check out this episode if you want to learn what all the FUS is about.2022-12-1052 minThe PacemakerJose Amich and Raahil Sha: Next Generation Neuronavigation with Zeta SurgicalJose Amich and Raahil Sha are the co-founders of Zeta Surgical, a startup focused on navigation for neurosurgical procedures. As CEO and CTO, this dynamic duo is taking their groundbreaking work to the FDA and to a clinical trial early next year. Our conversation explores their unique technology and their vision for what it can bring to neurosurgery, both inside and outside the operating room.2022-12-0143 minThe PacemakerDr. Jesse Kirkpatrick: On Synthetic Biomarkers and Early Cancer DetectionDr. Jesse Kirkpatrick completed his PhD in the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology. In this podcast, we discuss his thesis work in early detection of lung adenocarcinoma, and contextualize it within the broader field of synthetic biomarker diagnostics.2022-11-0555 min