Exciting news from
@NiaTherapeutics! Weโre thrilled to announce that Prof. Michael Kahana (
@KahanaMichael) has joined the company full-time as CEO.
A world leader in the science of human memory, Prof. Kahana built a distinguished career at the University of Pennsylvania (
@Penn), where he and members of his Computational Memory Lab pioneered the study of how patterns of neural activity, recorded directly from the brains of neurosurgical patients, predict fluctuations in
#memory encoding and retrieval. This foundational research provided the scientific basis for Niaโs groundbreaking therapy.
Kahana is the author of over 230 peer-reviewed publications and the landmark textbook, Foundations of Human Memory. His scientific contributions include the retrieved-context theory of episodic memory and the discovery of theta oscillations, place cells, grid cells, goal cells, and time cells in the human brain. He has received major honors including the Troland Award from the National Academy of Sciences and the Howard Crosby Warren Medal from the Society of Experimental Psychologists.
Together with Nia co-founder
@DanRizzutoPhD and
@yezzyat, Kahana authored the seminal publications demonstrating that closed-loop
#neurostimulation can reliably enhance human memory performance. These studies, conducted under DARPAโs Restoring Active Memory (RAM) program, produced the largest dataset ever collected on AI-based memory decoding and brain stimulation.
โIโm excited to join Dan Rizzuto and the Nia team in accelerating our mission to deliver transformative
#BCI therapies for patients living with memory loss due to traumatic brain injury
#TBI and other neurological conditions,โ said Kahana.
Welcome aboard, Mike โ weโre just getting started.
๐ Learn more about Prof. Kahanaโs work:
memory.psych.upenn.edu/Michaโฆ