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Max Hodak
Founder & CEO
Science
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25
May 2025, SynBioBeta
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Max Hodak is the founder and CEO of Science, a clinical stage medical device and neural engineering company developing advanced brain-computer interfaces and other technology applications for a range of unmet patient needs. Before founding Science, he was co-founder and President of Neuralink and founder and CEO of Transcriptic (now Strateos). Max holds a Bachelor of Science in Engineering degree from Duke University, where he studied Biomedical Engineering. During his junior and senior years of college, he worked in Silicon Valley as a software engineer. Outside of work, Max is an avid skydiver and pilot. He lives in San Francisco.
SynBioBeta 2025 - Keynote
The Neural Frontier: Pioneering Tomorrow's Brain Technologies
The stuff of science fiction is becoming reality! These scientist and entrepreneurs are tackling the next generation of brain connectomics, advanced brain-computer interfaces, neuromodulation, and stem cell replacement. These technologies aim to treat specific disorders today, but will enable a path for us to become cyborgs and live longer.
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