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2010 IBMISPS - Pioneer in Medicine Award Recipient - John Donoghue, PhD, MS
The Henry Merritt Wriston Professor and
Director of the Brown Institute for Brain Science
Brown University
John P. Donoghue, Ph.D. is the Henry Merritt Wriston Professor at Brown University. From 1991 through 2006, Dr. Donoghue was chairman of the Department of Neuroscience, and since 1998 he has served as director of the Brain Science Program at Brown University, which brings together more than 10 departments and 100 faculty into a unique research and education program. Dr. Donoghue has performed over 20 years of research on brain computer interfaces and his laboratory is internationally recognized as a leader in this field. His research has been funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the National Science Foundation (NSF), and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), as well as private foundations.
Dr. Donoghue has over 50 publications, including a number in leading journals such as Nature, Science and The Journal of Neuroscience, and he has served on many external advisory panels, including those for the NIH's Neurology and Mental Health institutes and the space medicine panel of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). In addition, he is co-founder, chief scientific officer and director of Cyberkinetics, Inc., a biotech startup that is developing brain implants to restore movements to paralyzed individuals.Dr. Donoghue received an A.B. from Boston University in 1971, an M.S. in Anatomy from the University of Vermont in 1976, and a Ph.D. in Neuroscience from Brown University in 1979.