Gregoire Courtine

I was trained in Mathematics and Physics, but received his PhD in Experimental Medicine from the Inserm Plasticity and Repair, France, in 2003, and the University of Pavia, Faculty of Medicine, Italy. After a Post-doctoral training at Los Angeles (UCLA), I established my own laboratory at the University of Zurich in 2008. In Dec 2011, I accepted the International paraplegic foundation (IRP) chair in spinal cord repair in the center for neuroprosthetics at the EPFL. I received numerous honors such as the 2008 UCLA Chancellor’s award, the 2009 Schellenberg Prize, the 2013 Debiopharm, and a fellowship from the European Research Council (ERC). Several of my works received substantial coverage in the national and international media.

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