Evaristus Nwulia, M.D. MHS, is a Johns Hopkins trained physician and a neuroscientist, with over 15 years history in leading educational and training programs aimed at enhancing participation in STEM and MD-Ph.D. students from HBCUs in the neuroscience workforce. He is also a Professor of Neuroscience at Howard University, who pioneered the development of home-based olfactory sensory stimulation platforms as disease modifying interventions for early Alzheimer’s disease. He holds several patents for devices and drugs, and for olfactory transcellular drug delivery methods for CNS disorders. He is co-Founder of three neuromedical device companies, including Evon Medics LLC, a neuroTech company tackling neurodegenerative diseases, traumatic brain injuries and chronic pain; Evon Medics has become a harbor for nurturing career development of highly talented young innovators. Evaristus has been a member of several NIH neuroscience-based scientific peer review panels over the past 10 years and has chaired the NIH Fogarty Global Brain Disorders Special Emphasis Panel. Ergo, he has extensive experience for recognition of projects with potential transformative impact. As a Neuroethicist and Chair of the Institutional Ethics Committee Board at Howard University, he brings substantial expertise in the ethical, legal, and societal implications of neuroscience and neurotech devices, particularly from the standpoint of all populations affected by the devices.

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Ralph Etienne-Cummings is a pioneer in mobile robotics and legged locomotion. His innovations over the past three decades have the potential to produce computers that can perform recognition tasks as effortlessly and efficiently as humans, and he has developed prosthetics that can seamlessly interface with the human body to restore functionality after injury or to overcome disease. Etienne-Cummings’ research includes developing systems and algorithms for biologically inspired and low-power processing, biomorphic robots, closed-loop neural prosthetics and computer integrated surgical systems and technologies. He is the founding director of JHU’s Institute of Neuromorphic Engineering and consults for numerous technology firms, including Nova Sensors, Inc., Innovative Wireless Technologies, Singular Computing, Panasonic North America, Avago Technologies, Micron Technologies. He was a visiting scientist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, a visiting African scholar at the University of Cape Town (South Africa) and an eminent visiting professor at the University of Western Sydney (Australia). At Johns Hopkins he holds a secondary appointment in the Department of Computer Science and is former chair of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Etienne-Cummings was Associate Director for education and outreach for the National Science Foundation (NSF)-sponsored Engineering Research Centers on Computer-Integrated Surgical Systems and Technology.

https://engineering.jhu.edu/faculty/ralph-etienne-cummings/

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Youseph Yazdi is the Director of the JHU Center for Bioengineering Innovation & Design (CBID), to educate and train Masters level student inventors and entrepreneurs to address unmet clinical needs by forming biomedical solutions. Dr. Yazdi also was the Director of the Johns Hopkins-Coulter Translational Partnership program, which resulted in 200 funded projects, formation of 17 start-up companies and over $300M raised in follow-on funding.

https://www.bme.jhu.edu/people/faculty/youseph-yazdi/

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