Vrad Levering, PhD

Vrad has broad experience across the medical device life cycle to conduct needs-based evaluations of early-stage projects as well as contributing across the range to transfer to manufacturing in the systems engineering team. Vrad has expertise in cardiovascular implants and delivery systems, neurovascular implants and delivery systems, ophthalmic therapies, surgical devices, chip-on-tip endoscopes, cell therapies, drug/device combinations, biofilms, soft robotics, and otologic implants and delivery systems.  Vrad was a project lead at The Foundry medical device incubator, and Head of Device R&D at Spiral Therapeutics, where his generation of a patent portfolio (10+ provisional applications) brought in significant investment. Vrad has three issued patents and 20+ provisionals and applications in various stages of the process. He is an author of 7 peer-reviewed publications and has presented at multiple international conferences.

Vrad was a 2018/2019 Biodesign Innovation Fellow at the Stanford University Byers Center for Biodesign and earned his PhD at Duke University in biomedical engineering. Prior to his PhD he was a medical device engineer after receiving an Honors Chemical Engineering BS from UT Austin.