Benjamin Rapoport is a neurosurgeon at the Skull Base Surgery Center, scientific director of Mount Sinai BioDesign medical device incubator, and an assistant professor of neurosurgery at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. He is also a co-founder and chief science officer of Precision Neuroscience. There, Rapoport oversees design and development of products and surgical implantation techniques. He previously co-founded Neuralink, a neurotechnology company developing implantable brain-computer interfaces. Rapoport has authored 50 scientific publications and 40 patents, many related to brain-computer interfaces and other innovations in medical technology. (Mount Sinai is a 2024 Festival Underwriter)
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Brain-computer interfaces show potential to restore function to people impacted by incurable neurological conditions such as stroke, spinal cord injury, traumatic brain injury...