Dominique M. Durand is an E. L. Lindseth professor of biomedical engineering and neurosciences and director of the Neural Engineering Center at Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA. He was honored with the 2024 North American Neuromodulation Society (NANS) Engineering Innovator Award to recognize his pioneering work and implementation of innovative solutions in neuromodulation. Prof. Durand is an IEEE fellow and also a fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biomedical Engineering and the Institute of Physics. He serves on 14 editorial boards of peer-reviewed scientific journals and is the editor-in-chief and founding editor of the Journal of Neural Engineering. He has published more than 170 peer-reviewed articles and has been a consultant for several biotechnology companies and foundations. He has been involved in groundbreaking research on the neural aspects of melanoma metastasis and his work aims to understand how the nervous system influences cancer development, which could lead to new methods for predicting and treating melanoma