Jacques Carolan
@JacquesCarolan
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Programme Director at @ARIA_research || Applied Physicist & Neuroscientist || Hon. Assoc. Prof. at @UCL || Prev: @NeuralCompLab || @MIT || Bristol || He/Him.
London, UK
Joined September 2013
SUPER excited that my first ever *real* neuroscience paper is published today in Nat Comms!🥳 We combined two-photon voltage imaging ⚡️and optogenetics 🔦to probe synaptic plasticity in the cerebellum of awake behaving animals. 🧵
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🚨Final Call🚨 You've got until 12th Nov, 14:00 UTC to apply! If you had £20k and three months, what’s the wildest, most interesting thing you’d work on? Tell us!
we've added suggestions for the kinds of projects that are exciting to us (although not limited to those 🤠). check them out and reach out if you have any questions! find out more + apply: https://t.co/AdZg9XUqXX
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I'm going to be at SfN later this week! Who else is going? What events should I check out etc?
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After a stint building quantum computers, Jacques turned his attention to neurotech. He's quickly become one of the most inspiring & catalytic drivers of progress in the space. Worth a listen to be educated/inspired on just how profound an impact this tech will have!
🎙️super excited to share *my first ever podcast!*🎙️ I had a lovely time chatting with @beatrice_erk — sharing my vision for brain health & precision neurotech at @ARIA_research, how to massively scale neurotech and my journey from physics → neuro. stoked with how it turned out!
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sooo excited for all of our seeds — huge congrats!🥳 we're funding everything from: - gut-brain interfaces - fungal-brain interfaces 🤯 - a new MHRA partnership (!!) - minimally invasive vine robots - mapping the brain-skull axis - oligodendrocytes as 'scaffolds' for electrodes
A silence switch for cancer + fungal networks as bio-interfaces – discover the 8 projects we're funding in Scalable Neural Interfaces. Led by @JacquesCarolan, this space asks how we can safely connect tech with the human nervous system. Dive in ↓ https://t.co/LgVXCsRp9U
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🎙️super excited to share *my first ever podcast!*🎙️ I had a lovely time chatting with @beatrice_erk — sharing my vision for brain health & precision neurotech at @ARIA_research, how to massively scale neurotech and my journey from physics → neuro. stoked with how it turned out!
What if brain disorders could be treated as precisely as heart disease? In this new podcast episode, @ARIA_research 's @JacquesCarolan joins us to explore the new science of precision neurotechnology, ultrasound for mood, gene therapies that prevent seizures, and how AI could
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Today, @Elise__Jenkins and I are thrilled to announce our $10m seed round. Coherence Neuro is building foundational neurotechnology that will overhaul how we track and treat cancer. 40% of us will get cancer in our lifetimes, yet there is no single cancer care company. Why?
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amodo are 🔥🔥🔥
The main thing working with @ARIA_research does is raise our ambition. Today's @thetimes piece mentions @MintNeuro , one of ARIA’s grantees we’ve been working with 🧵
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At its core, @ARIA_research has one job: give scientists permission to go after their most audacious goals, & then fan the flames that develop. @matthewclifford & I reflect on the ARIA journey so far with @thetimes. (Link in thread below, but the print headline's better ;-)
When I think of reasons to be optimistic about the UK, the talent and ambition unleashed by @ARIA_research is close to the top of the list. @ilangur and I spoke to @thetimes about how and why it works
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When I think of reasons to be optimistic about the UK, the talent and ambition unleashed by @ARIA_research is close to the top of the list. @ilangur and I spoke to @thetimes about how and why it works
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https://t.co/MBzC06Dgxm Congrats Jamie, @roapowell, @jujulemons and the entire @BritishProgress team!
britishprogress.org
Britain could lead in neurotechnology but is slipping behind; removing self-imposed regulatory and commissioning barriers and investing in research, capacity, and skills would let the NHS deliver...
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Fascinating report from @BritishProgress *breaking down barriers to help the UK embrace neurotechnology*. When developing my programme we funded early work on the barriers to neurotech translation. This report supercharges that work (note policy recs independent of ARIA/me) 👇
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such incredible news: for the entire @uclh team, uk neurotech and most importantly for paul and the folks in the future who will benefit from this technology. huge congratulations to everyone involved 🚀
🇬🇧 We’re excited to announce our first participant in the UK! Paul, who is paralyzed due to motor neuron disease, received his Neuralink implant at @uclh earlier this month and was able to control a computer with his thoughts just hours after surgery.
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We are excited to announce our first-ever Vision Weekend in the UK, celebrating our 40th anniversary! Over the past decades, we’ve championed frontier science and technology – from supporting future Nobel Prize-winning research to hosting the first nanotech conference and giving
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Can we engineer the innate immune system for durable, broad-spectrum protection against respiratory viruses? In Sustained Viral Resilience – backed by £46m – we’ll fund teams to create a new class of medicines + unlock adoption pathways. Apply by 10 Nov:
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Backed by £46m, this programme sits within the Sculpting Innate Immunity opportunity space and seeks to create a new class of medicines that provide durable, broad-spectrum protection against...
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Super excited – the call for proposals for the Sustained Viral Resilience programme is now live! New medicines can put us on a path to societal resilience against common viruses and pandemics - apply to help build them, using innate immunity as a lever.
Can we engineer the innate immune system for durable, broad-spectrum protection against respiratory viruses? In Sustained Viral Resilience – backed by £46m – we’ll fund teams to create a new class of medicines + unlock adoption pathways. Apply by 10 Nov:
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Stem cells strike again: Promising results from a new Parkinson’s trial just published in the journal Cell. Dopaminergic progenitors are early-stage brain cells that can mature into dopamine producing neurons. These are some but not all of the cells (and circuits) lost in
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Thanks everyone for this fantastic weekend - let’s build out the frontier of neuro ai, bci, wbe for better ai futures.
Thank you to everyone who joined the Neurotechnology Workshop – BCI, WBE & AGI with us, this weekend! @eboyden3, @patrickmineault, @Andrew_C_Payne, @mardinly, @michaelandregg, @stardazed0, @EscolaSean70058, @JacquesCarolan, @halehf, @AToliasLab, @BobbyKasthuri, @gkreiman,
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so much fun !!
Thank you to everyone who joined the Neurotechnology Workshop – BCI, WBE & AGI with us, this weekend! @eboyden3, @patrickmineault, @Andrew_C_Payne, @mardinly, @michaelandregg, @stardazed0, @EscolaSean70058, @JacquesCarolan, @halehf, @AToliasLab, @BobbyKasthuri, @gkreiman,
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great to see @thetimes cover our work on biohybrid neural interfaces! @ARIA_research w/ Kacy Cullen, @GeorgeMalliaras, Rylie Green and Flavia Vitale
Government-backed scientists are making implants from lab-grown brain cells that could one day replace damaged circuits in patients with Parkinson’s disease ⬇️
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My team and I at @ARIA_research have been building a £46m, ~5yr programme to create a new kind of medicine against common viruses + pandemics. Excited to announce the funding call goes live in ~1 week! We think the innate immune system is key. An explainer 🧵+ call to action:
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