Gerald E. Loeb, M.D.
- Director, Medical Device Development Facility
- Professor of Biomedical Engineering, USC Viterbi School of Engineering
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Expertise Summary
Expert in biomedical engineering specializing in neural prosthetics and sensorimotor control
Expertise
- Neural engineering
- Neural prostheses
- Spinal cord
- Motor control
- Tactile sensors
- Haptics
- Muscles
- Electrical stimulators
- Implanted medical devices
Additional Information
- Inventor of BIONs, injectable devices designed to reanimate paralyzed muscles
- Co-inventor of the cochlear implant, a neuroprosthetic device enabling profoundly deaf people to hear
- Founder of SynTouch Inc., manufacturer of biomimetic tactile sensing technology developed originally at USC
- Holder of over 70 issued US patents
- Author of more than 300 full-length journal articles
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