Affiliation: Johns Hopkins University

Dr. Manbachi is an Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery, Biomedical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering at Johns Hopkins University, and a recipient of the Baltimore Business Journal's 40 under 40 award. He is the engineering PI on a $13.48M award from Department of Defense, and responsible for the assembly of a world-class team of pioneers, including 60 individuals from clinic, academia, and industry. He is the co-founder and director of the HEPIUS Innovation Labs, focusing on the next generation of wearables and implantable medical ultrasound devices for spinal cord injury patients. His research interests include studying applications of ultrasound to various neurosurgical procedures. These applications, spanning both diagnostic cand therapeutic aspects of ultrasound, include imaging the spine and brain, detection of foreign body objects, remote ablation of brain tumors, monitoring of blood flow and tissue perfusion, as well as other upcoming interesting applications such as neuromodulation and drug delivery.