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Bio
Gerald Loeb is Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Director of the Medical Device Development Facility at the University of Southern California.
He received B.A. and M.D. degrees from Johns Hopkins University and surgical training at the University of Arizona. From 1973 to 1988, he was an intramural research scientist and Chief of the Section on Neurokinesiology in the Laboratory of Neural Control at the National Institutes of Health. He was Professor of Physiology and Director of the Biomedical Engineering Unit at Queen’s University in Kingston, Canada, until 1999.
Dr. Loeb is an inventor on over 75 US patents, a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors, and a consultant to the medical device and instrumentation industry. He served as Chief Scientist to Advanced Bionics Corp. and was a founding director of SynTouch Inc., designated a Technology Pioneer by the World Economic Forum. Dr. Loeb’s research activities are in sensory-motor neurophysiology and implantable electronic devices. He has published over 400 articles, most available at http://mddf.usc.edu email: gloeb@usc.edu https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_E._Loeb