Dr. Heather Gainforth has a singular principle that drives her research and her career. “At the end of the day, everything I do is in service to the communities that benefit from my work.” That work—seeking to inject meaningful community Read More…
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seed2STEM honoured with City of Vancouver Leadership in Reconciliation Award
ICORD’s seed2STEM summer research program for high school youth has been awarded the City of Vancouver’s Leadership in Reconciliation Award for 2025. seed2STEM transforms reconciliation principles into action by creating culturally safe pathways for Indigenous high school students to participate Read More…
Reconciliation in action: seed2STEM keeps growing
seed2STEM, the summer research program that offers paid research internships to Indigenous high school students, grew again this summer. The program, which started at ICORD with one student in 2018 as a way to address underrepresentation of Indigenous people in Read More…
ICORD Director receives UBC’s premier award for research
ICORD Director Dr. Brian Kwon has received the Jacob Biely Faculty Research Prize for 2024. This prestigious award, UBC’s premier award for research, recognizes his outstanding contributions as a surgeon-scientist to spinal cord injury research. Dr. Kwon is the first recipient of this prize from the Read More…
Work Learn student Jocelyn Chan featured by UBC Career Centre
This summer, our Work Learn student Jocelyn Chan celebrated five years with ICORD in her role as Knowledge Translation and Social Media Coordinator. Recently, she was featured in an article by the UBC Career Centre, where she shared her experiences Read More…
Spinal cord injuries from mountain biking exceed hockey, other high-risk sports
A new paper by ICORD Director Dr. Brian Kwon and his colleagues at UBC, Vancouver Coastal Health, and Praxis Spinal Cord Institute, reveals an alarming number of people suffering spinal cord injuries while mountain biking, often leading to permanent and Read More…
Dr. Brett Hilton named a 2022 Brain Canada Future Leader in Canadian Brain Research
ICORD Principal Investigator Dr. Brett Hilton is one of 28 neuroscientists in Canada who have been awarded $100,000 each in research funding, as part of Brain Canada’s 2022 Future Leaders in Canadian Brain Research Program. The Future Leaders in Canadian Read More…
Fall 2020 Seed Grants
With the generous support of the Rick Hansen Foundation, ICORD was able to award seven seed grants in the Fall 2020 competition. We are very grateful for this ongoing and extremely valuable support. Quality of safety reporting in acute spinal Read More…
Research could change how blood pressure is managed in spinal cord injury patients
ICORD principal investigators Dr. Christopher West and Dr. Brian Kwon and their research teams have published a study that challenges the current standard for managing blood pressure in people with spinal cord injury (SCI). The findings could lead to a Read More…
SCI research at UBC receives $48M grant
An international research team, co-led by ICORD PI Dr. Brian Kwon, has received a $48 million grant (US$36.5M) for research that aims to improve long-term outcomes for patients with SCI. The five-year project—made possible through a grant from the United Read More…
