Convergent Research is a focused research organization for conducting non-profit science projects and research. Backed by Protocol Labs.
About the role
This is the person who makes sure the hardware exists to get the science done. Arbor currently runs, and will be launching, several kinds of experiments in humans and animals. Hardware is a bottleneck across these efforts:
What they're looking for
- Work directly with the scientists running the experiments to understand their needs and translate them into hardware requirements
More about this role
(formerly Forest Neurotech)
Arbor is a nonprofit research organization working on one of the hardest open problems in clinical neuroscience: how to change brain circuits by design.
Millions of people with depression, chronic pain, and other brain disorders have no treatment that works. Modulating activity in the brain circuits underlying their symptoms – with electrical stimulation, focused ultrasound, or magnetic stimulation – can work spectacularly well. But it doesn't work reliably, and we can't predict who it will help.
That's what Arbor aims to fix. The starting point is a new class of experiment: intervene, measure how the circuit responds, track the symptom, and repeat in the same individual over months. We’re building the necessary experimental platform. It currently includes the Forest 1 ultrasound system, which works like a wearable functional MRI, but with higher resolution. The system images activity across large brain volumes, including deep brain structures, and will soon stimulate as well. We are also adding electrode-based interfaces in animal studies. From these data, we'll build models to make neuromodulation predictable.
Arbor is a Focused Research Organization...
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