Aural Analytics Appoints Four New Advisory Board Members
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SCOTTSDALE, Ariz.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aural Analytics, Inc., a privately held digital health company developing the world’s most advanced speech analytics platform, today announced the appointments of Greg Hickok, Ph.D., professor of cognitive sciences at the University of California, Irvine; Robert Bowser, Ph.D., chief scientific officer, professor and chairman of neurobiology, director of the Gregory W. Fulton ALS and Neuromuscular Research Center, Barrow Neurological Institute, St. Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center; Michele Chin-Purcell, Ph.D., vice president, regulatory affairs and quality assurance, Nalu Medical, Inc.; and Tyler Knutson, head of the data analytics hub, Aetna, a CVS Health Company, to its advisory board. Dr. Hickok was the inaugural Chair of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language, founding director of UC Irvine’s Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, and Editor-in-Chief of Psychonomic Bulletin & Review from 2014-2019. Dr. Hickok received his Ph.D. in Psychology and Linguistics at Brandeis University in 1991 and did post doctoral training in Cognitive Neuroscience at MIT and the Salk Institute for Biological Studies. Dr. Bowsers research interests are to determine the molecular and cellular basis of motor neuron cell death in ALS and translate these findings to the clinic. Additional work in his lab includes the use of nanoparticles to target drug therapies to motor neurons and the central nervous system, and the discovery of new RNA binding proteins linked to ALS.