University Groups & Industry

Some relevant university groups working in systems and computational neuroscience and neuroengineering, BCIs & BMIs:

• Andersen Lab, Caltech
• Batista Lab, University of Pittsburgh
• Bensmaia Lab, University of Chicago
• Boahen Lab, Stanford University
• Donoghue Lab, Brown University
• Carmena Lab, UC Berkeley
• Chang Lab, UC San Francisco
• Chase Lab, Carnegie Mellon University
• Chestek Lab, University of Michigan
• Chichilnisky Lab, Stanford University
• Collinger Lab, University of Pittsburgh
• Churchland Lab, Columbia University
• Coutine Lab, EPFL, Switzerland
• Cunningham Lab, Columbia University
• Fetz Lab, University of Washington
• Ganguly Lab, UC San Francisco
• Gaunt Lab, University of Pittsburgh
• Gilja Lab, UCSD
• Hong Lab, Stanford University
• Kalaska Lab, University of Montreal
• Kao Lab, UCLA
• Hatsopoulos Lab, University of Chicago
• Hochberg Lab, Brown University & MGH
• Melosh Lab, Stanford University
• Miller Lab, Northwestern University
• Moritz Lab, University of Washington
• Murmann Lab, Stanford University
• Nicolelis Lab, Duke University
• Nuyujukian Lab, Stanford University
• Orsborn Lab, University of Washington
• Palanker Lab, Stanford University
• Pandarinath Lab, Emory University and Georgia Tech
• Rao Lab, University of Washington
• Schwartz Lab, University of Pittsburgh
• Scott Lab, Queen's University
• Shanechi Lab, USC
• Slutsky Lab, Northwestern University
• Yu Lab, Carnegie Mellon University
• Wyss Center, Campus Biotech, Geneva, Switzerland
  • ABILITY fully-implantable system to record from 128-electrodes and transmit data wirelessly

Some relevant communities:

• NeuroTechX is a non-profit organization whose mission is to facilitate the advancement of neurotechnology by providing key resources and learning opportunities, and by being leaders in local and worldwide technological initiatives. The 3 pillars are “Community”, “Education”, and “Professional Development”.
• Texax Biomedical Device Center, Dallas, TX

Some relevant companies working in systems and computational neuroscience and neuroengineering, BCIs & BMIs:

• Blackrock Microsystems, Salt Lake City, UT
• BIOS, Cambridge, England
• Ceribell, Mountain View, CA
• Cortera Neurotechnologies (acquired, now a part of Nia Therapeutics, Philadelphia, PA)
• CTRL-Labs, New York City, NY (acquired, now a part of Facebook Reality Labs, Redmond, WA)
• Grapheton, San Diego, CA
• Kernal, Los Angeles, CA
• Inscopix, Palo Alto, CA
• Iota Biosciences, Berkeley, CA
• Koniku, San Rafael, CA
• Medtronic, Minneapolis, MN
• MindX, Bethesda, MD
• NextMind, Paris, France 
• Neuralink, Fremont, CA
  • Neuralink Launch Event, July 2019
  • Neuralink Progress Update, August 2020
    • Animal care at Neuralink, August 2020
• Neuralynx, Bozeman, MT
• Neuropace, Mountain View, CA
• NeuroNexus, Ann Arbor, MI
• Nia Therapeutics, Philadelphia, CA
• Paradromics, Austin, TX
• Plexon, Dallax TX
• Sonera Magnetics, Berkeley, CA 
• Starfish Neuroscience, Bellevue, WA
• StimScience, Berkeley, CA
• Synchron, San Fancisco CA, New York City, NY and Mellbourne, Australia
  • Synchron’s Stentrode Brain-Computer Interface Receives Breakthrough Device Designation from FDA, August 2020

Some relevant companies working in loosely related areas and/or exploring neural interfaces often as part of wearable electronics or machine learning:

• Alphabet (Google, Google X), Mountain View, CA (and around globe)
• Apple, Cupertino, CA (and around globe)
• Facebook, Menlo Park, CA (and around globe)

Note: These lists are meant to be inclusive, and any exclusions are purely inadvertent. Important academic groups and companies have no doubt been inadvertently overlooked. Please contact Prof. Krishna Shenoy (shenoy@stanford.edu) if you have suggested additions.