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Repairing Lost Connections – New Concepts to Treat Spinal Cord Injury

EVENT: 
Recorded Webinar
Who Should Attend: 
Everyone is welcome

Speakers

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Lab Director
Molecular Regeneration and Neuroimaging Laboratory
Burke Neurological Institute
Associate Professor of Neuroscience
Brain and Mind Research Institute
Weill Cornell Medicine
Co-Director
Center for Pain & Sensory Recovery
Burke Neurological Institute

Watch our webinar series on Science Gives Hope as Dr. Jian Zhong presents Repairing Lost Connections – New Concepts to Treat Spinal Cord Injury.

Topics presented include:    

  • Axons – the communication lines between the brain and the periphery.
  • Regenerating and rerouting injured axons.
  • Mechanisms of axon growth.
  • New ways to promote axon growth in injured nerves and spinal cord.
  • A new phase I trial for spinal cord injury.

When

Friday, March 5, 2021 - 12:30pm

More Information

Darlene White

Conditions & Recovery

Spinal Cord Injury icon
Around the world, between 300,000 and 500,000 people are living with a SCI.
Pain and Sensory Recovery Icon
Pain free, touch and smell like before.