About This Blog

Neural Engineering is widely acknowledged to be one of the premiere growth arenas of the 21st century, with major thrusts related to: (i) basic research on the nervous system, particularly with respect to modeling and simulation of neural systems and their functions, (ii) development and application of specialized technologies for medical diagnosis and treatment of nervous system disorders, including silicon-based neural prosthetic devices to replace damaged or dysfunctional brain or spinal cord, and (iii) “neurotechnology” applications, i.e., enhanced-performance systems designed on the basis of fundamental principles of nervous system structure and function.  This blog will focus on a relatively new area of research also within the technical realm of translational neurotechnology: communication interfaces between neural tissue and electronic circuits with applications to neural prosthetics and implants, as well as neuro-morphic hybrid opto-electronic hardware systems to implement extremely fast neural-network computations.

In conjunction with these beliefs, I have pursued the relevant business, accounting and legal background to license relevant technology out of the university and get it to the patients who desperately need it.   I hope to give back to this burgeoning community by sharing my successes and failures across disciplines including accounting, finance, marketing, economics, health care policy, neuroscience, biology and bioinformatics.