The Travis Roy Foundation has teamed up with Wings for Life to support the spinal cord injury research of Dr. Joost Verhaagen from the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience. Dr. Verhaagen’s…
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Congratulations to Dr. Jeffrey Macklis, Harvard University, who has recently been awarded a prized NIH Director’s Pioneer Award (DP1 mechanism). Established in 2004, NIH Pioneer award supports highly innovative researchers…
Great news from the lab of Dr. Jason Carmel! Thanks to support from the TRF, Dr. Carmel and his associates have recently published an article in the prestigious Journal of…
The goal of our laboratory is to improve arm and hand function in people living with paralysis. With generous support from the Travis Roy Foundation, we have made significant progress…
Summary: Most spinal cord injuries spare some connections between the brain and the spinal cord below the injury site. We electrically stimulate the brain and spinal cord to strengthen the…
The TRF is pleased to announce the expansion of the Research Committee. Members were selected because of their experience working with people who have spinal cord injuries, their first-hand knowledge of living…
Congratulations to Dr. Jeffrey Macklis, who received the Krieg Cortical Discoverers award this week from the Cajal Club in Chicago! This award, which has been granted annually for more than…
Our paper demonstrating that brain electrical stimulation can restore movement after chronic corticospinal injury in rats was accepted for publication in the Journal of Neuroscience.
Soccer fans may have seen something exciting during the opening ceremonies of the World Cup in June- a paralyzed teenager, outfitted in a brain controlled exoskeleton and looking robotic, performed…
We were excited to read the research reports about the four men who took part in a study looking at the effects of epidural stimulation on voluntary movement following a spinal cord injury.
