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Dr. Eric LeuthardtNEUROSURGEON & BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERST. LOUIS, MISSOURI

Inventor Spot l ight

Modern Medicine’s Brain-Mapping Renaissance ManDr. Eric Leuthardt doesn’t have a day job; he has three. He’s an Associate Professor of Neurological Surgery and Biomedical Engineering at Washington University School of Medicine, where he cares for people with brain tumors and epilepsy, and he runs a lab with seven

and develop new technologies to improve neurosurgery.

“I’m very intellectually hungry,” says Dr. Leuthardt, modestly underselling himself. His psychological thriller, RedDevil_4, will hit bookshelves in 2013, and he serves as Chairman of

to improve handwashing hygiene in hospitals. He’s also one of Intellectual Ventures’ senior

Award-Winning Neurosurgeon and Prolific Inventor

Technology Review, which named him one of its top 35 innovators under 35. Intellectual Ventures Founder and CTO Edward Jung sat on the jury panel for the TR35 award and invited Dr. Leuthardt to become one of Intellectual Ventures’ senior inventors. Dr. Leuthardt had read about Jung’s work with Intellectual Ventures in a Technology Review

Intellectual Ventures’ Cross-Disciplinary Approach to Invention

avoid the immune system and microscopic robots that travel in blood vessels to break up blood clots or treat tumors. The process from

I like to integrate

strange combinations of

disciplines. Intellectual

Ventures is a wonderful

arena for bringing

fields together to

innovate breakthrough

concepts.

—DR. ERIC LEUTHARDT