Navzer Engineer, MD, MS’02, PhD’04: Distinguished Alumni Award Recipient - UT Dallas

Navzer Engineer, MD, MS’02, PhD’04 is co-founder, chief scientific officer and vice president for medical affairs at MicroTransponder, a medical device company that developed the Paired Vagus Nerve Stimulation (Paired VNS) platform to improve the lives of patients suffering from chronic neurological conditions. Engineer’s research on neuroplasticity and the VNS system laid the foundation for the company’s stroke therapy. He has received grants from the National Institutes of Health and published research in leading journals, including Nature and The Lancet, and holds over 40 patents.