New UBC President visits ICORD
On August 29, marking the start of his third week in office, UBC President Santa Ono journeyed off campus to explore cutting-edge research being led by UBC researchers based at the Eye Care Centre and ICORD, both located on the Read More…
Jacquelyn Cragg wins Branco Weiss Fellowship
ICORDian Dr. Jacquelyn Cragg has won the Society in Science – Branco Weiss Fellowship for postdoctoral studies. She joins physicists, biologists, social scientists, and other researchers from around the world in accepting the prestigious award given by ETH Zurich (Swiss Read More…
ICORDian wins prestigious Killam Doctoral Scholarship
Jordan Squair wins Killam Doctoral Scholarship A big congratulations to Jordan Squair, an MD/PhD student supervised by ICORD PIs Dr. Andrei Krassioukov and Dr. Christopher West. He just won the Killam Doctoral Scholarship! Jordan is working on new methods to improve the control of Read More…
ICORD Director interviewed by CBC’s The National
CBC’s The National interviews Dr. Wolfram Tetzlaff ICORD’s Director, Dr. Wolfram Tetzlaff, was interviewed by CBC’s The National to comment on a recent paper published in Nature. Researchers at Ohio State University in Columbus used a surgically implanted device to record Read More…
ICORD researchers show spared neurons can take over motor function following spinal cord injury
Neuroscientists have shown that uninjured nerve cells take over the function of injured nerve cells following spinal cord injury (SCI), in a study done here at ICORD. The study, published today in the prestigious Journal of Neuroscience, clearly demonstrates that Read More…