Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne, specialist in the study and approaches to the repair of spinal cord injuries
Grégoire Courtine was originally trained in Mathematics and Physics, but received his PhD degree in Experimental Medicine from the University of Pavia, Italy, and the INSERM Plasticity and Motricity, in France, in 2003.
From 2004-2007, he held a Post-doctoral Fellow position at the Brain Research Institute, University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) under the supervision of Dr. Reggie Edgerton, and was a research associate for the Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation (CDRF).
In 2008, he became Assistant Professor at the faculty of Medicine of the University of Zurich where he established his own research laboratory.
In 2012, he was nominated Associate Professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL) where he directs the International Paraplegic Foundation (IRP) chair in spinal cord repair at the Centre for Neuroprosthetics and the Brain Mind Institute.
He published several articles proposing radically new approaches for restoring function after spinal cord injury, which were discussed in national and international press extensively. Recently, he managed to use his results on paraplegic patients.
In 2013, he launched the start-up GTXmedical, whose goal is to turn these results into a treatment for paraplegia.
