Rapoport: Precision will run 30-day implants before permanent human trials
Dr. Ben Rapoport · Brain Computer Interface Frontier: Depression, Coma, AI Merge · Sep 5, 2025 · at 21:28
Dr. Ben Rapoport is co-founder of Precision Neuroscience. He is responding to why Precision conducted temporary intraoperative implants rather than immediate permanent placements like Neuralink.
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“We're moving to a next phase in our clinical studies that will allow the system to be left in place for up to 30 days, and that phase will help us further validate the quality of our decoding algorithms and deeply understand the nature of the signals as these devices are left in place. As you alluded to, you know, others have had some problems in their early In there early after implantation, and what we're trying to do is to anticipate and avoid such issues as we move to permanent implants, and then it will be after that phase, after this next phase, that we that we start leaving the devices in patients as part of a clinical trial permanently.”
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