Mustafa Hassam works as a volunteer at the Community Resource Centre in the Blusson Spinal Cord Centre. He was recently profiled by WelcomeBC. See his inspiring story here:
A number of ICORD trainees and staff members have recently received awards!
Melissa Pak is a research assistant in Dr. Andrei Krassioukov’s cardiovascular lab. Her oral presentation at the American Spinal Injury Association’s annual conference in April 2012 was one of three recognized for excellence by the ASIA Research Committee. The awards are based [...]
Researchers in Dr. Darren Warburton’s lab at the University of British Columbia are studying how cardiac and arterial function change to effectively regulate blood pressure in those with spinal cord injury.
We are seeking male participants between 18-45 years of age with spinal cord injury below T7.
Participants will be asked to complete three testing sessions at [...]
Trainee Peggy Assinck organized a team of enthusiastic ICORDians to play in HoopFest2012, a fundraising event in support of the BC Wheelchair Basketball Association. The team placed much better than last year’s entry, finishing in 5th place overall.
Click here for more great photos of the event taken by Gary Kripps.
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, [...]
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 [...]
Thanks to the generous support of Spinal Cord Injury BC, we are pleased to be able to webcast tonight’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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Congratulations to Diana Hunter, PhD student in Dr. Matt Ramer’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’s achievement will be [...]
