Warren Grill Ph.D
Chief Scientific Advisor
Dr. Warren M. Grill serves as SPR Therapeutics’ Chief Scientific Advisor and is presently the Edmund T. Pratt, Jr. School Distinguished Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Duke University (Durham, NC) with secondary appointments in Neurobiology and Neurosurgery. Dr. Grill received a bachelor’s degree in biomedical engineering with honors from Boston University and a Ph. D. in biomedical engineering from Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH.
His research interests are in neural engineering and neuromodulation and include design and testing of electrodes and stimulation techniques, the electrical properties of tissues and cells, and computational neuroscience with applications to restoration of bladder function, treatment of movement disorders with deep brain stimulation, electrical stimulation for treatment of pain, and vagus nerve stimulation for regulation of organ function. He has published over 260 peer-reviewed journal articles and has been awarded 73 US patents.
He was elected as Fellow of the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering in 2007, Fellow of the Biomedical Engineering Society in 2011, Fellow of the International Academy of Medical and Biological Engineering in 2022, and Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors in 2023. He was awarded a Javits Neuroscience Investigator Award by NIH-NINDS in 2015, and he was the inaugural winner of the inaugural NANS Clinical and Basic Science/Engineering Innovator Award in 2023.
Dr. Grill serves as a Consultant to the Neurological Devices Panel of the FDA Medical Devices Advisory Committee, is Editor in Chief of the Journal of Neural Engineering, and is on the editorial boards of Brain Stimulation, Current Opinion in Biomedical Engineering, and Neuromodulation.
