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When Ashley Galanti was a junior in high school, her sibling, Joey, experienced an epileptic episode at home. “When Joey regained consciousness, he was like, ‘Who are you? Where am I?’ He didn’t identify us for another five to ten minutes. As we transported him to the hospital, he repeatedly stated, I don’t want to attend baseball practice.’ However, he hadn’t participated in baseball for five years.”
Galanti has observed Joey and their mother, who also experiences epilepsy, endure numerous seizures. Nonetheless, Joey’s fleeting memory lapse was particularly harrowing for her family—and served as a catalyst for change. It motivated Galanti to embark on a prolonged entrepreneurial venture aimed at mitigating seizure effects.
With this aspiration, Galanti enrolled at the University of Georgia as an undergraduate in 2018, pursuing dual degrees in electrical engineering at the College of Engineering and journalism at the Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication.
In 2022, she entered UGA’s biomedical engineering doctoral program and established a startup, AMG Detection, for which she possesses 100% equity. Her goal is to create a wearable intelligent wristband equipped with a semiconductor chip that can identify nine pre-seizure compounds emitted as gases through the skin.
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