In this episode, we speak with Dr. Craig Mermel, President and Chief Product Officer at Precision Neuroscience, a company building non-invasive brain-computer interfaces that translate neural signals to restore neurological function for patients.
Craig began his career as an MD-PhD at Harvard, where he studied at the intersection of biology and computation during the early genomics revolution. We talk about how that experience shaped his view that biology is increasingly becoming a data problem, and how that perspective carried into his work at Apple and Google. He breaks down what brain-computer interfaces actually are, the tradeoffs between different approaches, and why you don’t need perfect neural data to drive meaningful outcomes. Ultimately, this conversation explores how turning signals from genes to neurons into computable data is shaping the future of healthcare.