John Donoghue (neuroscientist)

John P. Donoghue is an American neuroscientist, founder of the Brown Institute of Brain Science at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, and founding director of the Wyss Center for Bio and Neuroengineering at Campus Biotech in Geneva, Switzerland. He stepped down after a planned five-year term as director.

Education

John Donoghue earned an A.B. degree from Boston University in 1971, a master's degree in anatomy from the University of Vermont in 1976, and a PhD from Brown University in 1979.[1]

Professional career

Donoghue is a founder of the discipline of neuroprosthetics and coordinated the team that developed the brain–computer interface 'BrainGate' to restore movement for people with paralysis.[2] He was a co-founder of an early neurotechnology startup company, Cyberkinetics.

He founded the Brown Institute of Brain Science at Brown University, where he holds the Henry Merritt Wriston chair.[2] He conducts research at the Providence VA Medical Center.[3]

In November 2014 he was appointed the first director of the Wyss Center for Bio and Neuroengineering in Geneva, in association with which he was appointed to an adjunct professorship at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne and a visiting professorship at the University of Geneva.[2] He served a five-year term in the position and was succeeded by Mary Tolikas in June 2019.[4]

Recognition

Donoghue has received several honors for the BrainGate neurotechnology: the Zülch Prize in 2007,[2][5] a Roche-Nature Medicine senior award in 2010,[6] and with Arto Nurmikko the inaugural Moshe Mirilashvili Memorial Fund B.R.A.I.N. (Breakthrough Research And Innovation in Neurotechnology) Prize in 2013.[3] In addition in 2012 with Patrick van der Smagt he won the Erwin Schrödinger Prize of the Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres for a thought-controlled robotic arm developed by BrainGate.[7][8]

He is a fellow of several academies including the US Institute of Medicine, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the National Academy of Inventors.

He was also a member of the National Institutes of Health advisory committee for the White House BRAIN Initiative instituted under President Obama.[9][10]

References
  1. John Donoghue, PhD, BrainGate, retrieved September 15, 2020.
  2. "John P. Donoghue is taking the Lead of the Wyss Center", EPFL News, July 11, 2014 (press release).
  3. David Orenstein, "BrainGate team wins $1M prize in Israel", Brown University, October 15, 2013 (press release).
  4. "Dr Mary Tolikas announced as new Director of the Wyss Center", Wyss Center for Bio and Neuroengineering, June 3, 2019 (press release).
  5. "John Donoghue wins K.J. Zulch Prize", Rehabilitation Research & Development Service, United States Department of Veterans Affairs, January 21, 2010 (press release).
  6. Juan Carlos Lopez, "The 2010 Roche – Nature Medicine Translational Neuroscience Symposium", Spoonful of Medicine, Nature, December 21, 2010.
  7. "The Stifterverband Science Award – Erwin Schrödinger Prize", Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres, retrieved September 15, 2020.
  8. Katie Moisse, "Paralyzed Woman Moves Robotic Arm With Her Mind", ABC News, May 15, 2012.
  9. "National Institutes of Health Advisory Committee to the Director", Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) Working Group, archived from the original on April 24, 2013.
  10. Maia Szalavitz, "Brain Map: President Obama Proposes First Detailed Guide of Human Brain Function", Time, February 19, 2013.
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