Max Hodak
Founder and CEO of Science Corporation
Founder and CEO, Science Corporation · Co-founder; president until early 2021, Neuralink
Background
Max Hodak is an American entrepreneur and biomedical engineer.
He is the founder and CEO of Science Corporation, a neural engineering company developing brain-computer interface technology.
He co-founded Neuralink in 2016 and served as its president until early 2021.
Organizations
Science Corporation: Science Corporation is a clinical-stage medical technology company that develops brain-computer interface (BCI) technology. It is working to commercialize the PRIMA BCI retinal implant.
Neuralink: Neuralink Corp. is an American neurotechnology company that develops implantable brain-computer interfaces (BCIs).
Key facts
- Current title
- Founder and CEO, Science Corporationsource
- Science Corporation
- Started in April of 2021source
- Neuralink
- Co-founded in 2016; president until early 2021source
- Transcriptic
- Founded in 2012, a robotic cloud laboratory for life sciencessource
- Degree
- Biomedical engineering, Duke University, graduated 2012source
WYDE coverage of Max Hodak
WYDE Newsroom has published 2 articles about Max Hodak, from Jun 26, 2026 to Jul 23, 2026. Max Hodak is a named leader in 1 story and a critic in 1 story. The most recent is Science Corporation Launches PRIMA, a Vision-Restoring Retinal Implant, in Europe.
Science Corporation Launches PRIMA, a Vision-Restoring Retinal Implant, in Europe
Science Corporation won a CE mark for PRIMA, a retinal implant that restored functional central vision in most trial patients with age-related macular degeneration, and is launching it across Europe.
Jul 23, 2026 · 2 min read · Quoted or named as leader
AINature Medicine Stress Test Finds Frontier AI Models Not Clinically Ready
A Nature Medicine adversarial stress test found GPT-5, Claude 3.5, and Gemini 2.5 Pro ace medical benchmarks but lean on shortcuts, fabricate reasoning, and falter under small input changes, exposing a gap between lab scores and clinical readiness.
Jun 26, 2026 · 2 min read · Critic
Reported alongside Max Hodak
- Science Corporation · in 1 story with Max Hodak
Sources
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