__NOTOC__ John P. Donoghue (born 1949) is an American

neuroscientist A neuroscientist (or neurobiologist) is a scientist who has specialised knowledge in neuroscience, a branch of biology that deals with the physiology, biochemistry, psychology, anatomy and molecular biology of neurons, neural circuits, and glial ...

; he is currently the Henry Merritt Wriston Professor of Neuroscience and Professor of Engineering at

Brown University Brown University is a private research university in Providence, Rhode Island. Brown is the seventh-oldest institution of higher education in the United States, founded in 1764 as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providenc ...

, where he has taught since 1984. Donoghue founded Brown's Carney Institute for Brain Science and directed the institute from 2008 to 2015. He later served as the founding director of the

Wyss Center for Bio and Neuroengineering The Wyss Center is a not-for-profit neurotechnology research foundation in Geneva, Switzerland. The Center was founded by Hansjörg Wyss, who previously created the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering in the United States. T ...

Campus Biotech The Campus Biotech is a Swiss institution hosting research institutes and biotechnology companies. The Campus Biotech is located in the former Merck Serono building, in Geneva ( Switzerland). The Campus Biotech is a part of the Swiss Innova ...

Geneva Geneva ( ; french: Genève ) frp, Genèva ; german: link=no, Genf ; it, Ginevra ; rm, Genevra is the List of cities in Switzerland, second-most populous city in Switzerland (after Zürich) and the most populous city of Romandy, the French-speaki ...

, Switzerland. Donoghue is best known for his work developing

BrainGate BrainGate is a brain implant system built and previously owned by Cyberkinetics, currently under development and in clinical trials, designed to help those who have lost control of their limbs, or other bodily functions, such as patients with amyot ...

and is recognized as a pioneer in

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and

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Early life and education

John P. Donoghue was born in 1949 in

Cambridge, Massachusetts Cambridge ( ) is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. As part of the Boston metropolitan area, the cities population of the 2020 U.S. census was 118,403, making it the fourth most populous city in the state, behind Boston, ...

. He earned a Bachelor of Arts in Biology from

Boston University Boston University (BU) is a Private university, private research university in Boston, Massachusetts. The university is nonsectarian, but has a historical affiliation with the United Methodist Church. It was founded in 1839 by Methodists with ...

in 1971, a master's degree in anatomy from the

University of Vermont The University of Vermont (UVM), officially the University of Vermont and State Agricultural College, is a Public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Burlington, Vermont. It was founded in 1791 and is amon ...

in 1976, and a PhD from Brown University in 1979.

Professional career

Donoghue is a founder of the discipline of

and coordinated the team that developed the

' to restore movement for people with paralysis."John P. Donoghue is taking the Lead of the Wyss Center"
EPFL News, July 11, 2014 (press release). He was a co-founder of an early neurotechnology startup company,

Cyberkinetics Cyberkinetics is an American company with roots tied to the University of Utah. It was co-founded by John Donoghue, Mijail Serruya, Gerhard Friehs of Brown University, and Nicho Hatsopoulos of the University of Chicago. The Braingate technolog ...

. Beginning in 1999, Donoghue served as the inaugural director of Brown's Brain Science Program. The program grew into the Brown Institute for Brain Science, which was renamed the Carney Institute for Brain Science in 2019. Since 2001, Donoghue has held the Henry Merritt Wriston chair at Brown. He conducts research at the Providence VA Medical Center.David Orenstein
"BrainGate team wins $1M prize in Israel"
Brown University, October 15, 2013 (press release). 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 École may refer to: * an elementary school in the French educational stages normally followed by secondary education establishments (collège and lycée) * École (river), a tributary of the Seine flowing in région Île-de-France * École, Savoi ...

and a visiting professorship at the

University of Geneva The University of Geneva (French: ''Université de Genève'') is a public research university located in Geneva, Switzerland. It was founded in 1559 by John Calvin as a theological seminary. It remained focused on theology until the 17th centur ...

. He served a five-year term in the position and was succeeded by Mary Tolikas in June 2019.

Recognition

Donoghue has received several honors for the BrainGate neurotechnology: the in 2007, a Roche-Nature Medicine senior award in 2010, and with Arto Nurmikko the inaugural Moshe Mirilashvili Memorial Fund B.R.A.I.N. (Breakthrough Research And Innovation in Neurotechnology) Prize in 2013. In addition in 2012 with Patrick van der Smagt he won the Erwin Schrödinger Prize of the

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for a thought-controlled robotic arm developed by BrainGate. He is a fellow of several academies including the US Institute of Medicine, the

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, the

American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering The American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) is a non-profit organization founded in 1991, and headquartered in Washington. It represents 50,000 medical and biomedical engineers, and academic institutions, private industry, ...

, the

American Association for the Advancement of Science The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) is an American international non-profit organization with the stated goals of promoting cooperation among scientists, defending scientific freedom, encouraging scientific respons ...

, and the

National Academy of Inventors The National Academy of Inventors (NAI) is a US non-profit organization dedicated to encouraging inventors in academia, following the model of the National Academies of the United States. It was founded at the University of South Florida in 2010. ...

. He was also a member of the National Institutes of Health advisory committee for the White House

BRAIN Initiative The White House BRAIN Initiative (Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies) is a collaborative, public-private research initiative announced by the Obama administration on April 2, 2013, with the goal of supporting the devel ...

instituted under

President Obama Barack Hussein Obama II ( ; born August 4, 1961) is an American politician who served as the 44th president of the United States from 2009 to 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, Obama was the first African-American president of the ...

.Maia Szalavitz
"Brain Map: President Obama Proposes First Detailed Guide of Human Brain Function"
''Time'', February 19, 2013.

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