Dr. Geoffrey Ling is an internationally recognized innovation leader. Dr. Ling is co-founder at On Demand Pharmaceuticals – developing advanced, miniaturized, and automated pharmaceutical manufacturing systems that create from precursors to final formulated drugs. He is Co-Leader of The BrainHealth Project – an initiative to double human brain performance in the next 10 years. He also serves as a Professor of Neurology and is an Attending Neurocritical Care physician at Johns Hopkins University and Hospital and the Uniformed Services University of the Health Science (USUHS). Dr. Ling previously served as the Founding Director of the Biological Technologies Office at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and also Assistant Director for Medical Innovation of the Science Division in President Obama’s White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP). He is a retired U.S. Army colonel, who served for 27 years during which time he was deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan.
Dr. Ling’s medical degree is from Georgetown University and his doctorate in Pharmacology is from Cornell University. He was a postdoctoral research fellow at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. His neurology residency was done at Walter Reed Army Medical Center and his Neuro Critical Care fellowship at Johns Hopkins. He has published over 200 peer-reviewed articles, book chapters and reviews. He is a member of the honor societies of Alpha Omega Alpha, Sigma Xi and Military Medical Order of Merit. He is a fellow of the American Neurological Association, American Academy of Neurology and Neurocritical Care Society. He is a member of the Society for Critical Care Medicine, American Society of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics and AMSUS (the Society of Federal Health Professionals).
