BrainGate Team

A consortium of clinicians, scientists, and engineers developing brain-computer interfaces to restore movement and communication for people with paralysis

[BrainGate Team @BrainGateTeam]

Wonderful Science News story and podcast on human voice and implantable #iBCI, featuring BrainGate PIs and alums @neuroleigh @SergeyStavisky @DrDavidBrandman @matthew_willsey Vikash Gilja, and others.
@MGH_CNTR @MGHNeurology
@ucdavis
@VAResearch
@brownengin @CarneyInstitute

[Sergey Stavisky @SergeyStavisky]

An excellent long article in @ScienceMagazine about our speech brain-computer interface work and the growing industry efforts to bring this to many more patients:
https://t.co/c7tsBJXCQG

[Jake Gusman @JakeGusman]

I’m excited to share that one of the manuscripts from my PhD work, “Observation-Related Activity in the Human Motor Cortex Increases with Effector Anthropomorphicity,” is now published in @PNASNews. (1/12)
Link: https://t.co/OHNWk4SHv5

#NeuroTech #BCI @BrainGateTeam

[BrainGate Team @BrainGateTeam]

Congrats to @JakeGusman, Carlos Vargas-Irwin, @neuroleigh, et al. on their publication in @PNASNews , “Observation-related activity in the human motor cortex increases with effector anthropomorphicity”!
https://t.co/AwcuStLbMD

@brownengin
@MGH_CNTR
@CarneyInstitute
#BCI #neuro

[BrainGate Team @BrainGateTeam]

Congrats to Mattia Rigotti,@chethan, Nicholas Au Yong, et al, on their paper in @CurrentBiology "Preparatory encoding of intended movement in the human motor cortex and implications for brain-computer interfaces" @CoulterBME @EmoryMedicine #BCI #neurotech https://t.co/4sAsqeye47

[BrainGate Team @BrainGateTeam]

Congrats to Darrel Deo @WillettNeuro @JaimieHenderson @neuroleigh et al. on their new Nature paper, "A mosaic of whole-body representations on the human precentral gyrus," including data from six BrainGate participants + two from @RNELabs and UChicago!

https://t.co/45aoKiv6jv

[BrainGate Team @BrainGateTeam]

Congrats to @NS_Card @DrDavidBrandman @SergeyStavisky @neuroleigh et al. for their publication in Nature Medicine, “Long-term independent use of an intracortical brain–computer interface for speech and cursor control”!
@ucdavis
@MGH_CNTR
@Brown_BME
https://t.co/XK4Lwoidwe

[Nick Card @NS_Card]

This is now published in @NatureMedicine!

Check out this "behind the paper" blogpost, co-written by participant T15 and I, about how this paper came together and how he uses the BCI in his daily life: https://t.co/ssD3dQde66

[BrainGate Team @BrainGateTeam]

We’re so excited to welcome @BCMNeurosurgery and @RiceNeuro to the BrainGate consortium!
@SameerShethMD @NicoleProvenza #NishalShah #Neurotech #BCI
https://t.co/W90ksvxUGf

[Rice University News @RiceUNews]

Rice and Baylor College of Medicine are joining the @BrainGateTeam consortium to develop brain-controlled robotic assistive devices that could help people with tetraplegia eat and drink independently. #BCI #Neurotech

Find out more: https://t.co/sCsrQNHOjF

[Sergey Stavisky @SergeyStavisky]

Another brain-computer interface record set in the published record: fastest communication based on hand movements (typing in this case): https://t.co/foO2VGFTmD
Congrats Justin and the rest of the @BrainGateTeam!

[BrainGate Team @BrainGateTeam]

Congratulations to @BrainGateTeam founder and mentor John Donoghue, PhD @BrownUniversity on being awarded the 2026 Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering for his pioneering work on #BCI ! @brownengin @CarneyInstitute @Brown_BME

https://t.co/bcAXIml36u

[BrainGate Team @BrainGateTeam]

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[BrainGate Team @BrainGateTeam]

Congrats to @neuroleigh and our team at @ucdavis: @SergeyStavisky, @Maitreyee_W, @NS_Card, @DrDavidBrandman, et al., whose speech intracortical brain-computer interface has been recognized as a milestone in neurology by the American Neurological Association @TheNewANA1 !

[BrainGate Team @BrainGateTeam]

Congrats @BrainGateTeam -mates Erin Kunz @pearlsandpython for winning 1st place, Justin Jude @Justin_Jude for winning 2nd place, and Maarten Ottenhoff @MC_Ottenhoff and Anna Pritchard for placing in top 12 of 90 submissions of the #BCIAward2025 !

https://t.co/A9DhtI1F6B

[Christoph Guger @ChristophGuger]

🎉 Announcing the 1st Place Winner of the #BCIAward2025! 🏆
Congrats to Erin Kunz and team for their groundbreaking work in brain–computer interface tech!

Learn more about all nominated projects 👉 https://t.co/PmIR1TpRga

#Neurotechnology #Innovation #TechForGood

[BrainGate Team @BrainGateTeam]

Congrats to Vargas-Irwin et al.! Motor cortex single unit activity from 2 participants with spinal cord injury enabled ~70% accurate decoding of 48 hand gestures (∼90% for sets of 10). Findings support rich, intuitive control for BCIs. #Neurotech #BCI
https://t.co/1H4cZ7Iteh

[Maitreyee Wairagkar @Maitreyee_W]

Our brain-to-voice synthesis brain-computer interface paper was published in @Nature today! This neuroprosthesis synthesized the voice of a man with ALS instantaneously, enabling him to ‘speak’ flexibly and modulate the prosody of his BCI-voice. 1/7
Paper: https://t.co/STKtfgypAW

[BrainGate Team @BrainGateTeam]

Congrats to @Maitreyee_W @NS_Card Tyler Singer-Clark, Xianda Hou, @ca_rrina Lee Miller @neuroleigh @DrDavidBrandman and @SergeyStavisky for this incredible brain-to-voice BCI project:
https://t.co/BeWGuFZrLw

@ucdavis @UCDavisHealth @MGHNeurology @MGH_CNTR @brownengin

[nature @Nature]

A man with a severe speech disability is able to speak expressively and sing using a brain implant that translates his neural activity into words almost instantly.

https://t.co/9De3Cg8MGN

[Jake Gusman @JakeGusman]

I’m excited to share that one of the manuscripts from my PhD work, “Multi-gesture drag-and-drop decoding in a 2D iBCI control task”, has been published in the Journal of Neural Engineering (1/9)

Link: https://t.co/bPIQgSqCCx

#NeuroTech #BCI @BrainGateTeam @IOPPublishing

[BrainGate Team @BrainGateTeam]

Congrats to @DrDavidBrandman and our teammates at the @ucdavis Neuroprosthetics Lab for winning the @CRForumUS Herbert Pardes Clinical Research Excellence Award for their groundbreaking work enabling a man with #ALS to communicate via a speech #iBCI!
https://t.co/uwJH3KgRFO

[UC Davis Clinical and Translational Science Center @UCDavisCTSC]

This prestigious national award celebrates excellence in clinical research that transforms lives—and Dr. Brandman’s work is a shining example. 👏

#ClinicalResearch #Neuroscience #ALS #Innovation #UCDavis #Health #HerbertPardesAward #TranslationalScience

[BrainGate Team @BrainGateTeam]

@DrDavidBrandman & @neuroleigh comment on BCI breakthroughs in academic medicine: https://t.co/UTjkrrex6D
@ucdavis @MGH_CNTR @MGBResearchNews @MGHNeurology @MassGeneralMDs @MGHNeuroICU @brownengin @CarneyInstitute @Brown_BME5

[AAMC @AAMCtoday]

Imagine saying “I love you” after years of silence. These human stories capture breakthroughs made possible by academic medicine — from restoring speech with AI, to a living heart valve transplant, to no-needle allergy treatments. https://t.co/roVntqiXkp

[Justin Jude @Justin_Jude]

I’m excited to present our new preprint!
An intuitive, bimanual, high-throughput QWERTY touch typing neuroprosthesis for people with tetraplegia.

https://t.co/mSJbbV5cS4

[BrainGate Team @BrainGateTeam]

Congrats to @BrainGateTeam-mates at @UCDavis as well as our incredible clinical trial participant and his family for their feature in @BrainPrize's film: "Artificial Intelligence: From Mind to Machine" https://t.co/TEtQah2kPN (22:50)