Sam is a Cambridge NeuroWorks Frontier Fellow, funded by ARIA, tasked with developing a world-first neurotechnology device to treat paralysis in stroke patients. His journey into neurotechnology started with a very personal event.
When his cousin had a stroke at just 11 years old, the long wait for a treatment that never came left a deep impression. It made Sam question the limits of current medical technology and sparked a lasting curiosity about the brain. That curiosity grew into a passion for understanding cerebral blood flow, eventually leading to his undergraduate thesis: "Astrocytes are more important than neurons." Through this, he explored the intersection of physiological fluid mechanics, brain machine interfaces and human behaviour. Later, while helping his cousin with rehabilitation, the two of them imagined a new kind of medical device - one that could work with the body’s own signals to support recovery from paralysis.
Honing his skills at Imperial College London during his MRes Medical Device Design & Entrepreneurship degree, Sam has since spent his years as a Research Associate - supporting academics, students and startups with developing medical devices for commercialisation.
