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MIND OVER MATTER - COGITO ERGO MOTIO
Science and Entrepreneurship in the Interface
Between the Brain and the Machine
Saturday, November 3, 2007
The program will examine neural controlled medical devices, whether implantable or external. We will discuss the progress-to-date, the promise for the future, present priorities, the opportunities for entrepreneurs, and the prospects for private capital to fund promising companies. Please join the Caltech/MIT Enterprise Forum for this highly interesting and timely presentation.
Speakers
Dr. Matt McMahon
Senior Principal Scientist
Second Sight, Sylmar, CA
Second Sight, located in Sylmar, California, is creating a retinal prosthesis to provide sight to patients blinded from outer retinal degenerations such as Retinitis Pigmentosa. The first device consists of a tiny camera and transmitter mounted in eyeglasses, an implanted receiver, and an electrode-studded array that is secured to the retina with a microtack the width of a human hair. A wireless microprocessor and battery pack worn on the belt powers the entire device. The camera on the glasses captures an image and sends the information to the video processor, which converts the image to an electronic signal and sends it to the transmitter on the sunglasses. The implanted receiver wirelessly receives this data and sends the signals through a tiny cable to the electrode array, stimulating it to emit electrical pulses. The pulses induce responses in the retina that travel through the optic nerve to the brain, which perceives patterns of light and dark spots corresponding to the electrodes stimulated. Patients learn to interpret the visual patterns produced into meaningful images.
Jeremy L. Emken, Ph.D.
Post Doctoral Fellow - the Andersen Lab
Division of Biology
California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA
The Andersen Lab is doing cutting edge work in neural mechanisms for visual-motor integration, spatial perception and motion perception. An exciting project in the lab is to develop a cognitive-based neural prosthesis for paralyzed patients. This prosthetic system is designed to record the electrical activity of nerve cells in the posterior parietal cortex of paralyzed patients, interpret the patients' intentions from these neural signals using computer algorithms, and convert the "decoded" plans into electrical control signals to operate external devices such as a robot arm, autonomous vehicle or a computer.
Panelists
Ahmed A. Enany
President & CEO
Southern California Biomedical Council
Fred Farina
Assistant Vice President
Dept. of Technology Transfer
California Institute of Technology
Marcus Filipovich
Chief Executive Officer
Ikona Medical Corp.
Member
Pasadena Angels
Alexander B. Suh
Founder and Managing Director
California Technology Ventures,
J.J. Jacobs Enterprises, LLC,
and Jacobs Capital Group
Moderator
Russ Frandsen
Attorney-at-Law
The Business Legal Group
Co-Producers
Russ Frandsen
Attorney-at-Law
The Business Legal Group
Rogelio F. Nochebuena
President
Nochebuena R&D
Sponsor for this Program
Date
Saturday morning, November 3, 2007
Location
Registration and Continental Breakfast: 8:00 a.m. at Baxter Hall, Caltech
Program: 9:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. at Baxter Lecture Hall
Networking: 11:30 a.m. - 12:00 noon at Baxter Hall, Caltech
Directions/Maps: Directions to the Forum; Caltech's Interactive Map
Cost
$40 on-line registration fee. $50 at-the-door. $10 for students with full-time student ID (must show at door); free to Caltech students. Registrations are taken on-line up to 12:00 noon the day prior to the event. There are no refunds for no-shows.
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