Joshua Gafford

Joshua Gafford leads and manages all day-to-day engineering activities at EndoTheia. He is an expert in medical devices and surgical robotics, having spent his academic career developing next-generation devices and robotic systems for minimally invasive surgery. During his tenure at Vanderbilt University, Joshua led the submission of several NIH SBIR/STTR proposals; efforts which have resulted in four funded federal awards, two funded state awards, totaling $6.7M of non-dilutive seed funding for EndoTheia to date. Further, through his leadership at EndoTheia, the company has submitted 8 different patent applications to the USPTO. Joshua received his Ph.D from Harvard University, where his research focused on the development of modular robotic systems for therapeutic endoscopy. He is also a graduate of Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Stanford University.