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…
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New exercise guidelines for people with SCI
We all know that exercise is good for you, but how can you find out how much you should get? And what if you have a spinal cord injury? In November, ICORD PI Dr. Kathleen Martin Ginis and her research Read More…
Dr. Bonnie Sawatzky co-hosts seating symposium in NZ
ICORDian Dr. Bonita Sawatzky travelled to New Zealand in November to co-host the inaugural Oceania Seating Symposium. The purpose of the conference was to bring state-of-the-art concepts and latest technologies in seating and mobility to professionals (clinicians and researchers), manufacturers, Read More…
‘Gut feeling’ spurs doctor to re-examine evidence on urinary tract infections in people with SCI
People with spinal cord injuries often rely on catheters to empty their bladder. When a well-respected publication concluded that catheters could be reused without an increased risk of infection, it didn’t sit right with a Vancouver clinician and researcher. He Read More…
Dr. Chris West shows SCI affects the heart
Spinal cord injury affects the heart – that’s what research published in Experimental Physiology and carried out by by ICORD PI Dr. Chris West has found. The heart undergoes changes after spinal cord injury that are dependent on how severe Read More…
BICP-funded seed grant leads to US$1.926M grant
ICORD PIs Drs. Christ West and Brian Kwon have been awarded US$1.926 million by the US Department of Defense to study how changes to heart function following SCI can impact mobility. Their study, Offsetting cardiac dysfunction in acute spinal cord injury Read More…
Infrastructure grants from Canadian Government fund ICORD research
The Faculty of Medicine received a total of $31.2 million for eight projects in the latest round of Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) funding, announced today at the Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health (DMCBH). These projects represent the majority Read More…
ICORD student competes internationally
ICORD PhD student Seth Tigchelaar is representing UBC in the international Universitas 21 3-Minute Thesis competition. The 3 Minute Thesis (3MT) challenges graduate students to explain their research to a non-scientific audience in three minutes or fewer. Seth, who is Read More…
Work Learn students start the new term at ICORD
Welcome to Jessica McDougal, who starts her new job as a Clinical Research Assistant with Drs. Patricia Mills and Luke Harris today. Jessica is one of 15 UBC Work Learn students hired to work in a variety of roles at Read More…
ICORD innovators receive funding from MSFHR
Four ICORD PIs have received Innovation to Commercialization (I2C) grants from the Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research. This funding is designed to support translational researchers in the health and health services sectors — to advance their discoveries or inventions Read More…
