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		<title>ICORD Trainees &amp; Staff honoured</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2012 23:33:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A number of ICORD trainees and staff members have recently received awards!




Melissa Pak is a research assistant in Dr. Andrei Krassioukov&#8217;s  cardiovascular lab. Her oral presentation at the American Spinal Injury  Association&#8217;s annual conference in April 2012 was one of three recognized for excellence by the ASIA Research Committee. The awards are based [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Trainee Research Symposium takes place May 10th</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Apr 2012 21:15:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The ICORD Trainee Research Symposium, now in its second year, will take place at the Blusson Spinal Cord Centre on Thursday, May 10th. This Symposium is a one-day trainee-run initiative designed to give trainees a chance to present their research and hear from two plenary speakers studying different aspects of SCI research.
This year’s invited speakers, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ICORD student wins Vanier Scholarship</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Apr 2012 18:51:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many congratulations to Mali Poormasjedi, a PhD student with Dr. Aziz Ghahary, who has just received a prestigious three-year Vanier Scholarship in the amount of $150,000. The Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarships program is administered by Canada’s three research granting agencies  (the Canadian Institutes for Health Research, the Natural Sciences and  Engineering Research Council [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stem cells: safe or sinister? Cafe Scientifique will be webcast on May 3.</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Apr 2012 16:30:24 +0000</pubDate>
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Thanks to the generous support of Spinal Cord Injury BC, we are pleased to be able to webcast tonight&#8217;s Cafe Scientifique. Click here to tune in.
Everyone is welcome at a free Café Scientifique event.
Thursday 3 May, 6:30-9pm
Blusson Spinal Cord Centre Atrium
Join ICORD researchers for refreshments and informal discussion about scientific and ethical issues [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Researchers receive funding for vibration study</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Apr 2012 22:53:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ICORD researchers Dr. Peter Cripton and Dr. Brian Kwon have received funding from the United States Department of Defense for a unique interdisciplinary study that may lead to changes in the way that individuals are transported immediately following spinal cord injury (SCI).
The $2.3 million Applied Research and Advanced Technology Development Award is funding a project [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dr. Peter Cripton wins UBC Killam Teaching Prize</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Apr 2012 20:57:33 +0000</pubDate>
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Congratulations to ICORD Principal Investigator, Dr. Peter Cripton, for winning a 2011-2012 UBC Killam Teaching Prize. In addition to teaching in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Dr. Cripton is also co-director of the Orthopaedic and Injury Biomechanics Lab at ICORD and a member of the UBC/VCHRI Centre for Hip Health and Mobility.
Killam Teaching Prizes are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ICORD student wins AAAS poster competition</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Mar 2012 21:30:24 +0000</pubDate>
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Congratulations to Diana Hunter, PhD student in Dr. Matt Ramer&#8217;s research group. Diana presented a poster at the Student Poster Competition of the AAAS Annual Meeting in Vancouver last month, and her entry, A Very Large Organelle in Sympathetic Neurons, was the co-winning poster in the Cellular and Molecular Biology category. Diana&#8217;s achievement will be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hon. Leona Aglukkaq announces funding for cardiovascular health study</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Feb 2012 23:43:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Honourable Leona Aglukkaq, Federal Health Minister, was at the Blusson Spinal Cord Centre on Friday February 24th to announce new funding for research on cardiovascular health for people with SCI.
The team research project, led by ICORD Researcher Dr. Andrei Krassioukov, is entitled Improving cardiovascular health for Canadians living with spinal cord injury: Effects of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ICORD presents a symposium at AAAS</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Feb 2012 16:24:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ICORD researchers will be joining with other eminent faculty from within Canada and the US to present Curing Spinal Cord Injury: The Need for Global Collaboration at the AAAS Annual Meeting in Vancouver. This meeting brings together approximately 8000 scientists from around the globe.
The symposium will take place on Monday, February 20, 2012: 9:45 AM-12:45 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ICORD Annual Research Meeting for 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 16:35:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ICORD&#8217;s Annual Research Meeting for 2012 will take place at the Blusson Spinal Cord Centre on February 21st and 22nd. All ICORD PIs, Investigators, Associate Members, staff and trainees are encouraged to participate. Registration and abstract deadline is February 8th.
Contact admin@icord.org to request a registration form.
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