Guest: Rene van der Merwe

Holly and Rene van der Merwe, Chief Medical Officer and Head of Clinical Development at Galvani Bioelectronics, discuss the approach of Galvani Bioelectronics. Rather than targeting the vagus nerve, Galvani targets nerve bundles of the spleen. Rene shares an analogy of a "telephone exchange", where targeting the vagus nerve is like tapping into telephone poles, and through these wires your call must be directed throughout many of the downstream pathways. With so many challenging diseases stemming from inflammatory response, it is clear why Rene and the Galvani team are passionate about their continued momentum.