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John R. Adler, Jr.

John R. Adler, Jr., MD, founded ZAP Surgical in 2014 and is its chief executive. He invented the CyberKnife radiosurgery system and founded Accuray, and Stanford Medicine lists him as Professor Emeritus of Neurosurgery. His company biography describes Harvard undergraduate and medical training, Harvard neurosurgery training and a Karolinska fellowship with Lars Leksell. He also founded the Cureus medical publishing platform. The listed shareholder filing identifies him as John Rodenbeck Adler Jr.; he is distinct from similarly named politicians and his son Trip Adler. ZAP’s investigational radiomodulation programmes are separate from established device indications.