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 Read More…
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Researchers receive funding for vibration study
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 Read More…
Dr. Peter Cripton wins UBC Killam Teaching Prize
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 Read More…
ICORD student wins AAAS poster competition
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, Read More…
Hon. Leona Aglukkaq announces funding for cardiovascular health study
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. Read More…
Cardiovascular health and spinal cord injury: the surprising truth
Cardiovascular disease is the main cause of death in people with spinal cord injury (SCI), who develop the chronic disease at younger ages and greater rates than the able-bodied population. This is a surprising fact — both for people who Read More…
ICORD presents a symposium at AAAS
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 Read More…
2012 ICORD Annual Research Meeting wrapup
ICORD’s Annual Research Meeting for 2012 took place at the Blusson Spinal Cord Centre on February 21st and 22nd. The two-day event included plenary talks by world-renowned SCI experts Drs. Charles Tator, Michael Fehlings and Naomi Kleitman, and was attended Read More…
Café Scientifique will be webcast
In response to requests from around the globe, ICORD’s first Café Scientifique event, Spinal cord injury research: it’s not rocket science, it’s harder, will be webcast (for both live-streaming and later viewing). Click here to join in or view the webcast. Read More…
Students win at prestigious meeting
Congratulations to ICORD students Leanne Ramer and Greg Duncan, who both won Paralyzed Veterans of America Poster Awards at the 14th International Symposium on Neural Regeneration in Pacific Grove, California last week. Ms. Ramer is finishing her PhD with Drs. Read More…
