BrainDOME TM – Industry Track

Every 15 seconds, someone in the US suffers from a brain injury; as a result, every 15 seconds, someone in the US is failed by the lack of any substantive advancement in the treatment of traumatic brain injuries in the past several decades. Our objective is to design and build a prototype of the BrainDOMETM, which is a neurosurgical device that is in very early development at NTX (Neurotheraputics, pre-Series A startup, see http://www.ntx.ai/ the device is intended to allow for early large decompressive craniectomy and fundamentally change the standard of care.

In the video here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/ie4e0b66qy8k47v/Craniotomy%20decompressive.mov... you can see a craniectomy being performed. The brain swells outside the margins and the success of the surgery is variable. The device replaces current surgical techniques and the MVP will require biocompatible antimicrobial penetration resistant materials and design that allows for tight seal ideally for at least 7-10 days to be placed over a large craniectomy.

Project Mentor:

Engineering Mentor: William Loudon, MD, PhD - Section Chief, Neurosurgery & Director of Neurotrauma, CHOC Children’s; Associate Professor, UC Irvine,

Physician Mentor: Sharief Taraman, MD STaraman@choc.org - Division Chief of Neurology, CHOC Children’s; Associate Clinical Professor, UC Irvine; Chief Medical Officer, Cognoa; mentored MOVE-D students last year & working with them towards commercialization with the Innovation Institute

Secondary Mentors:

David Vogel, PhD - Former President & founder of Intertech Engineering Associates; author of Medical Device Software: Verification, Validation, & Compliance

Spyro Mousses, PhD - Serial Entrepreneur

Gavin Boyle, JD, MBA, MS - Patent Attorney

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