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Bill Hunter Put a Voice Inside the Implant
A physician-founder spent three decades teaching medical hardware to do more than sit quietly. His latest chapter turns implants into long-lived witnesses, sending useful signals from inside the body.
David Hendren
David Hendren is the Chief Business Officer of QURA, Inc., a Massachusetts medical technology company building an implantable sensor that streams real-time blood-pressure data to patients and physicians. A lawyer by training who has spent more than 25 years working every side of the deal table - venture capitalist, entrepreneur, CEO, board chair, advisor and counsel - he co-founded QURA in 2013 alongside its CEO. He also runs the advisory firm Augmentum Advisors, mentors startups through MassChallenge, sits on a Massachusetts Life Sciences Center review board, and advises VIC Technology Ventures, focusing his career on financing and commercializing healthcare and biomedical innovation.
William Hendren
William G. Hendren, MD, MBA is the co-founder and CEO of QURA, Inc., a Duxbury, Massachusetts medical technology company building the QSmart platform - an implantable biosensor roughly the size of a grain of rice that continuously measures and wirelessly transmits medical-grade blood pressure data in real time. A surgeon trained at Harvard, Mass General, Emory and the Cleveland Clinic, with an MBA and strategic healthcare consulting experience at PwC across the US, Middle East, China and the UK, Hendren is taking aim at hypertension, which he calls the single leading healthcare threat in the world.
Michael McShane
Michael (Mike) J. McShane is a biomedical engineer who has spent close to 25 years trying to put readable chemistry under the skin. As James J. Cain Professor II and head of the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Texas A&M University, he builds injectable, biomaterials-based optical biosensors - often called 'smart tattoos' - that glow in response to glucose, oxygen and other body chemistries so doctors can monitor patients continuously and minimally invasively. A Fellow of IEEE, SPIE, BMES and AIMBE, past president of the IEEE Sensors Council and founding chair of the IEEE BioSensors conference, he won the 2012 NIH Director's Transformative Research Award and the 2023 IEEE Sensors Council Technical Achievement Award.