Acting as the primary interface between Galvani’s Business and IT Operations organisations, Andrew leverages his expertise to ensure Galvani’s business systems are fit for purpose and running smoothly. Through solution architecting, vendor selection and assessment, implementation and ongoing technical engineering and support, Andrew maintains a detailed understanding of the IT platforms supporting business processes and ensures they are optimally deployed.

Daniel is a founding member of Galvani Bioelectronics and leads the Translational Research team within. The team is based in the UK with dedicated onsite electrophysiology laboratories, as well as managing academic and CRO collaborators externally.
Translational research for Galvani focuses on preclinical-to-clinical studies of autonomic nervous system neuromodulation, and the ability to modulate organ physiology and treat disease across an indication pipeline. Research explores the fundamentals of nerve physiology, translational biology, and pathophysiology, while discovering and optimising ways of interaction with disparate visceral neuroanatomy. This involves the pursuit of in silico, ex vivo, and in vivo electrophysiology methods to determine the efficacy and safety profiles of Galvani therapies, with the goal of delivering clinical therapy.
Prior to industry research at GSK and Galvani, Daniel studied Neuroscience at the University of London; Queen Mary (PhD – 2009), and the University of Cambridge (Post Doctorate – 2009-2013). Research from his academic career focused on understanding the dynamics of the peripheral nervous system, developing pre-clinical in vivo neurosurgical models, and novel neuroprosthetic design and application. Daniel is the Home Office License Holder and Risk and Ethics owner for in vivo research in Galvani, and is author to over 50 scientific publications and patent applications.

David works within the Translational & Engineering group to direct and perform in-house and collaborative electrophysiological studies in small and large animal models and human tissue, aimed at developing and refining clinically-relevant stimulation parameters. He also manages academic collaborations to elucidate biological mechanism of action in human tissues. David has a long-standing interest in neural interfacing; during his PhD he worked to develop high-density neuronal recordings with applications for the treatment of epilepsy. Prior to Galvani Bioelectronics, David has over 20 years of experience in Neuroscience, the last 15 of which has been in Psychiatric Drug Discovery within major international pharmaceutical companies.

Eric is board certified General and Vascular surgery with over 25 years of clinical experience in these areas. He is an adjunct professor of surgery at the University of Minnesota where he is involved in training for medical students, residents and practicing clinicians and is involved in clinical research activities.

During the past 18 years he has also worked with biomedical device companies developing therapies to treat cardiovascular and pulmonary diseases. In these efforts he has worked in initial proof of concept studies; with R&D teams to develop initial implantable systems and to improve their usability; and with Clinical and Regulatory staff in clinical protocol development and establishing clinical events committees for clinical trials.

Eric worked with Galvani Bioelectronics since its inception working to study the anatomy at proposed interface sites, develop surgical techniques for humans and perform risk assessments and risk mitigation strategies for the surgical procedures developed to implant the neuromodulation systems.

Grace is an Principal Scientist within the Clinical Development group at Galvani Bioelectronics. Her role centres around the design, execution and interpretation of high-dimensional flow cytometry experiments to support Galvani’s Indication Expansion Programme in the identification of novel disease targets for neuromodulatory therapy. Data from this work will provide comprehensive information about the immune phenotype of relevant disease models and identify biomarkers for monitoring disease progression and efficacy of neuromodulation. In parallel, training in clinical development and clinical operations is being undertaken to provide support for Galvani’s clinical work.

Isha is the Director of Product Management and Clinical Strategy at Galvani, where she has been with the company since early 2017. Over the years, she has held multiple roles across product development and translational sciences, helping advance the product from preclinical research to clinical application. In her current role, she leads clinical strategic development, supports regulatory, manages the field clinical engineering team responsible for product deployment at clinical sites and with patients, and oversees end-to-end product management.

Isha holds a PhD in Electronics and Electrical Engineering from the University of Southampton (2018), where her research focused on developing miniaturized devices for neural signal processing, with broader applications in Internet-of-Things (IoT) computing. Her scientific contributions are documented in over 50 peer-reviewed publications and patents. While at Galvani, she recently earned an MBA from Imperial Business School and contributed to global commercial strategy at ViiV Healthcare.

Jerry is an in vitro/ex vivo Investigator within Disease Biology primarily supporting the respiratory portfolio projects. He has a keen interest in novel mechanisms and interfaces to achieve fiber selective modulation of peripheral nerves to treat disease. In this role, Jerry also works closely with the Target Discovery and Neuronal Modulation Devices groups to help identify user requirements and functionality testing of neuronal interfaces.

Prior to joining Galvani Bioelectronics, Jerry worked for 10+ years in GSK’s Respiratory Therapeutic Area Unit and Neuronal Targets Discovery Performance Unit supporting lead optimisation of various chemical series targeting GPCRs and ion channels, including INCRUSE ELLIPTA® (umeclidinium) and Dinirixin. His past work has predominantly utilised functional ex vivo tissue preparations, electrophysiology, and calcium imaging techniques.

Jerry holds a BSc in Biomedical Engineering from Drexel University.

Kristen leads the Business Development activities and Alliance Management. Leveraging her extensive experience and CA-AM certification, Kristen’s maintaining cultivates and manages crucial relationships with external partners ensuring best practice and synergies across Galvani to deliver value through partnerships.

Prior to joining the Galvani team, Kristen was with GSK for over 25 years in various roles including Finance, Commercial and Worldwide Business Development. Kristen holds an MBA from Temple University, and a B.S. in Finance from Drexel University.

Margriet is Director Immunoinflamation in the Clinical Development team. As such she is mainly focusing on the development of neuromodulation strategies for the treatment of (chronic) inflammatory diseases. Her main tasks are to participate in the design and execution of the clinical development strategy and is responsible for the execution of Galvani’s first clinical study. She lead’s and participates in the data review and analysis of the trial results in close collaboration with the Clinical Operations team. She provides expert scientific input to clinical trial documents and the program regulatory dossier and lead or assist with Competent Authority and Ethics Committee/IRB submissions together with the Regulatory team. In addition, she supervises R&D involving ex- and in vivo research delivering proof-of-concept studies on the target nerve performed in collaborative research projects with several universities in Europe.

Margriet holds a PhD in Biochemistry which she obtained at the university in Utrecht (The Netherlands). Previously she was working as COO at Arthrogen (Amsterdam, The Netherlands), a small biotech company developing gene therapy for arthritis. Holding also a position as University Teacher at the division of Clinical Immunology & Rheumatology (Academic Medical Centre (AMC)/University of Amsterdam) she was supervising the research-lines focusing on neuro-inflammationn and gene therapy in rheumatoid arthritis. Currently she holds a position as University Teacher at the Tytgat Institute (AMC) and contributes to the development of neuromodulation for the treatment of inflammatory bowel disease. She is author of over 60 peer-reviewed publications.

Phil is Director within Clinical Development group and head of Indication Expansion. He is responsible for overseeing programs to diversify our lead therapy into new therapeutic areas, to confirm proof of concept and translational path to clinic. This includes developing translational biomarker strategies to define mechanisms of action and therapeutic response in our clinical trials. Prior to this he was Disease Biology manager, leading multiple projects with our academic collaborators, to demonstrate effects of neuromodulation on defined neural circuits in differing disease conditions.

Phil has extensive non-clinical and clinical experience across multiple therapeutic areas. He joined GSK in 2007, working in Safety Pharmacology with an in vivo cardiovascular and translational focus, followed by a position in Safety Evaluation & Risk Management in the Global Clinical Safety & Pharmacovigilance group. He moved to Pfizer as Non-Clinical Drug Safety Lead for the Neuroscience & Pain Research Unit, before joining Galvani Bioelectronics in 2016. Phil gained a PhD in Physiology & Pharmacology at the University of Strathclyde, followed by a post-doctoral position at the University of Edinburgh in the Centre for Cardiovascular Sciences.