Nikhil Joshi

Nikhil Joshi is a Biomedical Engineer with a BS and MS in the field. During undergraduate studies, he was a Research Assistant in Dr. Adam Engler’s lab at UC San Diego, investigating methods to coax stem cells towards various mature cell lineages. Later on, at Columbia University, he served as a Graduate Research Assistant in the lab of Dr. Clark Hung, investigating techniques to enable nutrient delivery to engineered tissue constructs for cartilage cell therapy.

After academia Nikhil has spent 12 years in industry, working as an Engineer and Product Manager on a variety of innovative technologies. Most recently Nikhil was at Auris Health helping to build Monarch, the world's first robotic endoscopy platform. Nikhil led development of three novel robotic instrumentation devices, from initial concept to design verification testing.

Nikhil has co-invented nine patented technologies, and throughout his career has been driven by the question of how technology can improve healthcare quality.