Episode 259 | Grant Kruger, CEO/Founder at Veracron Wellness Systems | Bridging Engineering and Medical Needs to Revolutionize Chronic Pain Care

Podcast: Project Medtech · Project Medtech

Opublikowano: 2026-05-04

In this episode, Grant Kruger joins Duane Mancini to share his journey from growing up in South Africa to becoming a University of Michigan researcher and medtech entrepreneur. He discusses his roots in electrical engineering and AI-driven manufacturing, the leap to Michigan for a postdoc, and the pivotal shift from automotive-focused research into collaborating with physicians to solve real clinical problems. Grant explains how early pain-research tooling evolved into Veracron Wellness Systems, and how an NIH I-Corps-style customer discovery process reshaped their thesis, revealing clinicians didn’t need better pain intensity scores, but objective, workflow-friendly functional data. He outlines th...