Company Profile

Galiana Technology Inc is a small company working to develop cell-powered chips that can be placed inside a brain in order to monitor neural activity. The initial application of this technology is to better understand the neurological underpinnings of addiction in order to improve the targeting of treatment. The company's technology is based on research in animal models of addiction and PTSD that has shown that learned assocations between conditioned cues and drugs or fear are encoded in small proportions of sparsely distributed neurons. Galiana's goal is to develop a neural recording technology that can be scaled up to record millions of neurons during behavior. While the company's immediate aims center on addiction, the ability to communicate high-resolution information regarding the neural encoding of memories and perceptions may have much broader applications.