Connor Glass
Physician-researcher who studied neuroscience and medicine at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, where he completed a two-year research fellowship in the Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery focused on peripheral nerve injury, advanced neuromuscular microsurgery, and human-machine interfacing. Observing BCI experiments at Hopkins he concluded that the peripheral nervous system could offer a faster path to clinical impact than cortical implants. He founded Phantom Neuro in 2020, spinning it out of Johns Hopkins, to build the ASCENT muscle-machine interface for prosthetic control. The company raised an oversubscribed $19 million Series A led by Ottobock and demonstrated 94% gesture accuracy across 11 hand and wrist movements.