JOHN P. DONOGHUE, Ph.D. - Founder, Chief Scientific Officer and Director. Dr. Donoghue co-founded Cyberkinetics in 2001. He is currently the Henry Merritt Wriston Professor at Brown University. Since 1991, Dr. Donoghue has been Chairman of the Department of Neuroscience and since 1998 he has served as Executive Director of the Brain Science Program at Brown University. Dr. Donoghue has performed over 20 years of research on brain computer interfaces and his laboratory is internationally recognized as a leader in this field. His research has been funded by the National Institute of Health ("NIH"), the National Science Foundation ("NSF"), and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency ("DARPA"), as well as private foundations. Dr. Donoghue has over 50 publications, including a number in leading journals such as Nature, Science and the Journal of Neuroscience and he has served on many external advisory panels, including those for the NIH's Neurology and Mental Health institutes and the space medicine panel of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration ("NASA"). Dr. Donoghue received an A.B. from Boston University in 1971, an M.S. in Anatomy from the University of Vermont in 1976 and a Ph.D. in Neuroscience from Brown University in 1979. |