This is the person who makes sure we can actually run studies with human participants.
Arbor’s human studies use functional ultrasound imaging, and soon focused ultrasound neuromodulation. Participants are people with a sonolucent cranial implant, usually placed after surgery for traumatic brain injury, stroke, or a tumor. The studies are longitudinal: the same participant returns over months, first in the lab or clinic and eventually at home. We work in partnership with hospitals and academic centers, here and in the UK.
The program needs to grow, and much of the infrastructure for that doesn’t exist yet.
Part of the job is conventional clinical operations: IRB submissions and amendments, protocol preparation, site readiness, participant scheduling and support, safety monitoring, documentation, and training systems. You’d own all of it. We’re small, so for now that means doing the work as much as overseeing it.
The second part is harder to specify and a bigger challenge. Our program will depend on the quality and scale of our relationships with clinicians and hospital departments. Building and maintaining those partnerships requires a real understanding of where our interests align. This would be yours to own.
You’d also help grow our studies beyond the clinic. At-home longitudinal neuromodulation is where this program is headed, and we don’t yet know what that requires. Some of the answers are technical, and some will come from spending time with participants and seeing what their lives are like at home.