Dr. Grégoire Courtine

Biography

Grégoire Courtine originally trained in Mathematics and Physics and received his PhD degree in Experimental Medicine from the University of Pavia, Italy, in collaboration with INSERM Plasticity and Motricity in France in 2003. From 2004 to 2007, he held a Post-doctoral Fellow position at the Brain Research Institute at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) under the supervision of Dr. Reggie Edgerton and acted as a research associate at the Christopher Dana Reeve Foundation. In 2008, he became an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Zurich, where he established his own research laboratory. In 2012, he was appointed Associate Professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL) and holds the International Paraplegic Foundation chair in spinal cord repair at the Center for Neuroprosthetics of the Brain Mind Institute. He has published several articles proposing radically new approaches for restoring function after spinal cord injury and has received numerous honors, including the UCLA Chancellor’s Award for excellence in post-doctoral research in 2007 and the 2009 Schellenberg Prize for innovative research in spinal cord injury awarded by the International Foundation for Research in Paraplegia. His research mission focuses on designing innovative interventions to restore sensorimotor functions in central nervous system disorders, particularly spinal cord injury, with the aim of translating findings into effective clinical applications to improve the quality of life for individuals with neuromotor impairments.

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