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Ben Woodington
Ben Woodington is the co-founder and CEO of Coherence Neuro, a deep-tech company building SOMA-1, a button-sized, MRI-safe brain-computer interface that listens to and electrically modulates brain tumors from the inside. A Cambridge-trained chemist-turned-engineer who once built smart inhalers and minimally invasive spinal-cord interfaces, Woodington pivoted his neurotechnology to oncology after realizing almost no one was applying neural-interface engineering to cancer. He argues electricity should become the fourth pillar of cancer therapy alongside surgery, drugs, and radiation, and raised a $10M seed in late 2025 to take the work toward first human trials.
MJ Antonini
MJ Antonini is the co-founder and CEO of NeuroBionics, an MIT spinout building hair-thin, flexible bioelectronic fibers that thread through blood vessels to reach deep neural structures - delivering deep brain stimulation without opening the skull. A Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and Technology graduate who trained in both medicine and engineering, he turned a decade of fiber research from Polina Anikeeva's MIT lab into a venture-backed company that raised an oversubscribed $10M seed round to push toward first-in-human trials.