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Associate Professor
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
troy, New York, United States
Chris is a new Associate Professor (Biomedical Engineering) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) in Troy, NY. Chris was originally a RPI graduate (Biomedical Engineering, ’03) and then received a PhD in Biomedical Engineering from Johns Hopkins Medical School in 2009. Chris’ graduate work was in the BioMEMS lab of Jeff Wang and focused on combining microfluidics and single molecule imaging techniques for diagnostics. Since graduating, Chris has worked at General Electric’s corporate research center on both private and government healthcare related projects. For the last 8 years at GE Chris has pioneered ultrasound-based neuromodulation therapies with his teams, applying these new tools to combat chronic diseases (such as type 2 diabetes) in both pre-clinical and clinical trials. Chris is an inventor on 40+ granted patents and has 40+ peer-reviewed publications. As a principal investigator, Chris has led GE, NIH, DTRA, DARPA, Navy/MTEC, and BARDA-funded teams and his ultrasound therapy team won the phase 1 and 2a NIH Neuromod prize.
Advancing Closed-Loop Bioelectronic Medicine
Friday, June 13, 2025
10:45 AM - 12:00 PM ET