The lab of ICORD Principal Investigator Dr. David Granville recently won two grants, which will support furthering his groundbreaking research on granule-secreted enzymes, or granzymes, in inflammation and wound healing. Dr. Granville, along with Dr. Keerit Tauh, a third year Read More…
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Dr. Krassioukov to host 4th International Autonomic Symposium
ICORD Principal Investigator Dr. Andrei Krassioukov will host the 4th International Autonomic Symposium on February 22, 2017 at the Blusson Spinal Cord Centre. The symposium, “Interfacing Man and Machine: Neuroprosthetics for managing autonomic function after spinal cord injury,” will examine Read More…
ICORD welcomes four UBCO researchers
ICORD is excited to welcome four researchers from University of British Columbia Okanagan to the team. From the School of Health and Exercise Sciences, Drs. Philip Ainslie, Heather Gainforth, Kathleen Martin Ginis, and Paul van Donkelaar are ICORD’s newest members. Read More…
New UBC President visits ICORD
On August 29, marking the start of his third week in office, UBC President Santa Ono journeyed off campus to explore cutting-edge research being led by UBC researchers based at the Eye Care Centre and ICORD, both located on the Read More…
Jacquelyn Cragg wins Branco Weiss Fellowship
ICORDian Dr. Jacquelyn Cragg has won the Society in Science – Branco Weiss Fellowship for postdoctoral studies. She joins physicists, biologists, social scientists, and other researchers from around the world in accepting the prestigious award given by ETH Zurich (Swiss Read More…
ICORDian wins prestigious Killam Doctoral Scholarship
Jordan Squair wins Killam Doctoral Scholarship A big congratulations to Jordan Squair, an MD/PhD student supervised by ICORD PIs Dr. Andrei Krassioukov and Dr. Christopher West. He just won the Killam Doctoral Scholarship! Jordan is working on new methods to improve the control of Read More…
ICORD Director interviewed by CBC’s The National
CBC’s The National interviews Dr. Wolfram Tetzlaff ICORD’s Director, Dr. Wolfram Tetzlaff, was interviewed by CBC’s The National to comment on a recent paper published in Nature. Researchers at Ohio State University in Columbus used a surgically implanted device to record Read More…
ICORD researchers show spared neurons can take over motor function following spinal cord injury
Neuroscientists have shown that uninjured nerve cells take over the function of injured nerve cells following spinal cord injury (SCI), in a study done here at ICORD. The study, published today in the prestigious Journal of Neuroscience, clearly demonstrates that Read More…
ICORD study on cover of Journal of Physiology
Congratulations to ICORD Postdoc Dr. Aaron Phillips, whose study on cerebral blood flow regulation and spinal cord injury is the Editor’s Choice and cover article of the March 15, 2016 issue of The Journal of Physiology! Dr. Phillips, who is a Read More…
ICORDians win MS Society grant and awards!
ICORDians win funding from the MS Society! Three ICORD Trainees won Studentship Awards from the Multiple Sclerosis Society of Canada, as part of the organization’s Annual Research Competition. Dr. Wolfram Tetzlaff’s students Gregory Duncan (PhD candidate) and Sohrab Manesh (MSc candidate), along with Fraser Muir Read More…
