Annual Research Meeting 2018
ICORD held our fifteenth Annual Research Meeting on March 12 and 13. This year’s conference featured two visiting speakers, eleven research talks by ICORD and RHI researchers, and 51 poster presentations by ICORD staff and trainees from labs at UBC Read More…
ICORD Dr. Matt Ramer performs on stage
Most of us know Dr. Matt Ramer as a researcher of neural regeneration following SCI, but he is also a prolific amateur actor. Dr. Ramer has appeared in more than forty performances of musical theatre and operetta in Canada, the Read More…
Electrical implant could improve daily activities for people with spinal cord injuries: study
An experimental treatment that sends electrical currents through the spinal cord has improved “invisible” yet debilitating side effects for a B.C. man with a spinal cord injury. A diving accident six years ago left Isaac Darrel, of Langley, B.C., with Read More…
Postdoctoral position in ICORD’s autonomic lab
ICORD, in the UBC Faculty of Medicine, Vancouver Campus, is seeking a postdoctoral fellow in discovery/basic science to join an established group of scientists and clinicians in the laboratory of Dr. Andrei Krassioukov for a two-year term (with possibility of Read More…
ICORD PI featured in “Women of Innovation” book
ICORD PI Dr. Stephanie Willerth is featured in Women of Innovation: The Impact of Leading Engineers in Canada, a book recently published by the Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy, and Petroleum (CIM). The book tells the stories of twenty inspiring Read More…
