Phagenesis Ltd
Stephen Halstead is an experienced quality management professional with a robust career spanning over two decades in the medical and engineering sectors. Currently serving as a Quality Manager at Phagenesis Ltd since February 2017, Stephen has previously held positions as a Quality Engineer and Quality Systems Engineer at notable companies such as Baxter Healthcare Corporation and Smiths Medical. Prior to these roles, Stephen gained valuable experience as a Quality Engineer at Advanced Medical Solutions, a Manufacturing Process Engineer at DePuy Orthopaedics, a Senior Process Engineer at Airbags International Limited, and a Project Engineer at Brake Linings Limited. This diverse background underscores Stephen's deep expertise in quality assurance and process engineering within regulated industries.
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Phagenesis Ltd
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Phagenesis is developing a device for the treatment for dysphagia, the inability to swallow safely, that often accompanies stroke or other neuro-deficit diseases. The approach is to harness the brain's own capacity for relearning functions that have been lost through brain damage (via "neuroplasticity" or "corticalremapping"). Focusing initially on the care of stroke patients as they recover in hospital (acute care), Prof Shaheen Hamdy of the University of Manchester, UK, painstakingly devised a method of delivering electrical signals from the pharynx (throat) along nerve cells directly to the relevant parts of the brain. The results of his work have been published in top peer-reviewed scientific and medical journals, including The Lancet, the Nature group of publications, and Gastroenterology.