Jerry Silver, who dedicated a 50-year career to restoring function after spinal cord injury, died on January 7. He was 77. Silver, a longtime faculty member at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, was widely recognized in the research world, but was also on a first name basis among people living with SCI and anyone else who followed the science. He was a...

We’re back with round two of stem cells and their application to spinal cord injury with our tour guide, Alina Garbuzov. In this episode, we wrap up our overview of stem cell types, sources and potential uses in spinal cord injury. We also field some listener questions from part 1 and talk about the work that Alina is doing at the Mark Tuszynski Lab at UCSD. We realized after the fact that these two conversations are...

I’m proud of the work we are doing, but we need to scale it. We can’t keep pretending that our smart, small programs are enough. Prodding the cure economy with alternative, collaborative opportunities is great, but as I laid out recently, we also need to build an SCI Translation Factory...

Wishing you a restful holiday season...