Dr. Albert Kwon, CEO of Brainnovations Winner AUGMENTx, wants to harness Augmented Reality to significantly ease access to Neurological Rehabilitation Therapies

By Alvaro Fernandez | January 30, 2018

___ Albert, what sur­prised you the most from the Judges’ ques­tions and feed­back dur­ing the Brain­no­va­tions Pitch Con­test? It was a pleas­ant sur­prise to receive so many votes and such great feed­back, which solid­i­fied my con­vic­tion that there is a great need to cre­ate new ther­a­py options for stroke patients and oth­er neu­ro­log­i­cal injuries, especially…

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The FDA creates new Digital Health unit to reimagine regulatory paths in the age of scalable, AI-enhanced innovation

By SharpBrains | May 30, 2017 |

— Med­i­cine Is Going Dig­i­tal. The FDA Is Rac­ing to Catch Up (Wired): “WHEN BAKUL PATEL start­ed as a pol­i­cy advi­sor in the US Food and Drug Admin­is­tra­tion in 2008, he could pret­ty much pin­point when a prod­uct was going to land in front of the review­ers in his divi­sion. Back when med­ical devices were…

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Key take-aways from the 2015 SharpBrains Virtual Summit

By SharpBrains | December 16, 2015

. Take-aways from 2015 Sharp­Brains Vir­tu­al Sum­mit (Neu­rotech News): “In Novem­ber (17th-19th) Sharp­Brains held its Vir­tu­al Sum­mit about “Mon­i­tor­ing & Enhanc­ing Brain Health in the Per­va­sive Neu­rotech­nol­o­gy Era.” The Sharp­Brains Vir­tu­al Sum­mit is, as you might guess, a vir­tu­al (online) conference…The vir­tu­al sum­mit had it’s own divi­sion of top­ics for group­ing the dif­fer­ent speak­ers (see…

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10 Brain Transformers: A Poem

By Anu Acharya | November 25, 2015

. As we enter an era of a trans­form­ing cere­brals there will soon be “Mind­ful” wear­ables to con­cen­trate, med­i­tate and self reg­u­late Did I just see you drop your jaw­bone at the gate? Charge your­self to a calm­ing or ener­giz­ing state Enhance mem­o­ry and you are now feel­ing great Your life may soon be in a dif­fer­ent motion…

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Trend: Taking health (and brain health) care “beyond the pill”

By SharpBrains | February 23, 2015

. How Device Mak­ers Can Take Health­care “Beyond the Pill” (Med­ical Device and Diag­nos­tic Indus­try): “One thing is clear: Pharma’s com­mit­ment to “beyond the pill” has nev­er been so appar­ent. Each and every phar­ma com­pa­ny seems to have formed a divi­sion or a strate­gic team to explore new ser­vices around patient com­pli­ance, pop­u­la­tion health data…

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