Invited researcher: Grégoire COURTINE, "motor recovery after spinal cord injury"

Last update: 22/09/2025 Reading time: 1 min

Grégoire Courtine is Associate Professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology. He came to the Institut du Cerveau - ICM on February 1, 2016, and presented his research work on the use of new technologies to improve motor recovery after a spinal cord injury.

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