Affiliation: University of Cambridge, UK, Division of Neurosurgery, Department of Clinical Neurosciences

Damiano Giuseppe Barone is a Clinical Lecturer in neurosurgery with an interest in clinical translation of implantable neural interface technologies. He received his medical degree from the University of Naples ‘Federico II’ (Italy) in 2009, completing a research thesis on the anatomy of endoscopic skull base surgery. He has been training as a specialist neurosurgeon between Liverpool and Cambridge, with a particular focus in peripheral and skull base surgery. In 2019, he was awarded a PhD in Clinical Neurosciences at University of Cambridge, sponsored by the Wellcome Trust Translational Medicine and Therapeutics PhD Programme. As part of his PhD, he looked at novel therapeutic strategies for the treatment of foreign body reaction to implanted peripheral nerve neural interfaces. His current research focuses on implantable technologies for regeneration, restoration, and rehabilitation of the nervous system.