Grant: Emerging Team Grant: Regenerative Medicine and Nanomedicine - LOI

The general objective of this team is to optimize sensorimotor functions and rehabilitation outcomes after lesions of the central nervous system (CNS). To this end we will investigate, using cutting-edge approaches, sensorimotor mechanisms leading to functional recovery following traumatic and vascular lesions in humans (spinal cord injury or SCI and stroke) as well as corresponding animal models in cats and rats. We will objectively measure the recovery over time after innovative rehabilitative interventions. We also aim to promote the uptake of research findings by clinicians through implementation of a multicentric, interdisciplinary clinical research network in which relevant basic and clinical research will be integrated. We feel that this is a model that will truly allow the dissemination of knowledge between groups of basic and clinical researchers, clinicians and care-givers as well as the patients themselves directly or indirectly. We already have a track record along these lines and want to expand and solidify our team.