News - BrainGate

2026

May 28 2026

Rice University and Baylor College of Medicine join BrainGate consortium

March 16 2026

Scientific American covers BrainGate typing-based assistive technology

February 3 2026

John Donoghue Wins 2026 Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering

2025

August 14 2025

BrainGate “Inner Speech” Research Covered in NYT, Other Media Outlets

2024

August 14 2024

Brain-computer interface allows a man with ALS to ‘speak’ again at UC Davis

August 14 2024

NYT Coverage of advanced speech decoding with Braingate System

March 11 2024

MGB launches the iBCI Collaborative Community

January 24 2024

Nature Lists BCIs as One of Seven Technologies to Watch in 2024

2023

October 4 2023

UC,Davis’s Neuroprosthetics Lab receives 2023 BCI Award for their rapidly-deployable speech neuroprosthesis

August 23 2023

WSJ coverage of UCSF and BrainGate’s advancements in speech decoding

August 23 2023

NYT coverage of advancements in speech decoding led by UCSF and BrainGate

August 23 2023

Brain implants, software guide speech-disabled person’s intended words to computer screen

August 23 2023

Brain-computer interface guides speech-disabled person’s intended words to computer screen

January 13 2023

BrainGate consortium publishes safety monitoring data from 17 years (2004-2021) of iBCI research

2022

August 29 2022

At UC Davis, researchers work on restoring the ability to speak

August 24 2022

UC Davis recruiting people for clinical trial aiming to restore speech

August 19 2022

Clinical Trial Aims to Develop New Methods to Restore Speech With Brain-Computer Interface

June 22 2022

BrainGate research offers new clues about sleep’s possible role in learning and memory consolidation

May 12 2022

BrainGate participant featured in article on brain-computer interfaces

March 29 2022

BrainGate research revealing how the human brain encodes information

February 25 2022

BrainGate consortium director Leigh Hochberg receives VA Magnuson Award

February 7 2022

BrainGate+SoftRobotics team awarded the 1st CERF Medical Engineering Prize for ALS Research

2021

May 13 2021

Brain Computer Interface Turns Mental Handwriting into Text on Screen

March 31 2021

Researchers demonstrate first human use of high-bandwidth wireless brain-computer interface

March 12 2021

New paper on the role of middle frontal gyrus in planning movements in response to auditory stimuli

2020

October 14 2020

Researchers discuss BrainGate, restorative neurotechnology at Brown and beyond

May 5 2020

New paper on neural replay in human motor cortex

2019

September 17 2019

BrainGate researchers win 1st place of the 2019 BCI Award

June 13 2019

Brown University graduate student Nicole Dusang announced as 2019 Tillman Scholar

2018

December 7 2018

Brain implants might one day help paralyzed patients use tablets

December 3 2018

BrainGate Helps People With Paralysis Control Computers, Play Piano With Their Minds

October 2 2018

Carlos Vargas-Irwin receives NIH Innovator Award

June 4 2018

1st place winner of the annual BCI award 2018

March 27 2018

“Implanting Hope” (Brown University)

March 5 2018

BrainGate included as one of 50 ideas to change the world

January 24 2018

People with tetraplegia gain rapid use of brain-computer interface

2017

March 28 2017

Man with quadriplegia employs injury bridging technologies to move again—just by thinking

March 28 2017

With BrainGate-directed muscle stimulation, a man with paralysis moves his arm, hand anew

March 15 2017

PBS: Typing sentences by simply thinking is possible with new technology

February 21 2017

Brain-computer interface advance allows fast, accurate typing by people with paralysis

February 21 2017

BrainGate collaboration makes advance in interface’s speed, accuracy

February 21 2017

Fastest-ever BCI typing by people with movement impairment

2015

September 1 2015

BrainGate investigator John Simeral awarded grant to support benchtop testing of wireless brain sensor.

May 1 2015

Professor Krishna Shenoy named a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator.

2013

October 1 2013

BrainGate team awarded $1-million prize at BrainTech Israel 2013.

April 1 2013

BrainGate research named one of the Top 10 Clinical Research Achievements of 2012 by the Clinical Research Forum and awarded the Herbert Pardes Clinical Research Excellence Award as the most outstanding nominated project.

February 1 2013

Case Western Reserve University added as BrainGate2 clinical site.

2012

May 1 2012

New paper demonstrating use of BrainGate to control robotic arms.

2011

November 1 2011

Stanford University joins BrainGate Research Team as a clinical site.

August 1 2011

Science News and Notes, “Advances in Neuroscience Raise Medical Hopes, Social Questions”.

March 1 2011

New paper demonstrating use of BrainGate at 1000 days.

2010

September 23 2010

NIDCD Featured Story: Giving Voice to Thoughts: NIDCD-funded research helps the locked-in communicate again by turning thoughts into words.

July 22 2010

John Donoghue’s Charlie Rose video appearance.

2009

July 15 2009

We’ve updated the information about our clinical trial.

June 4 2009

We are happy to report that the pilot clinical trial of the BrainGate2 Neural Interface System has started, and is now recruiting participants. More information will appear here over the next few weeks.

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We are happy to report that the pilot clinical trial of the BrainGate2 Neural Interface System has started, and is now recruiting participants. More information will appear here over the next few weeks.

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