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Registration for U2FP’s Annual Science & Advocacy Symposium is officially open! This year’s event will take place at the Minneapolis Hilton Hotel, on October 20-21, 2023. Secure your spot at this one-of-a-kind gathering of the...

This is just a quick note to remind you that registration for this year’s 18th Annual Science & Advocacy Symposium opens tomorrow, Friday, June 2nd! Don’t wait, register tomorrow and take advantage of the following incentives...

At least once a year Gregoire Courtine’s spinal cord stimulation lab in Switzerland publishes a research study; well-written, solidly scientific, beautiful multimedia presentations, they always seem to wind up in the top journal Nature. They’re always news desk catnip and the headlines are always the same: “paralyzed man walks.” This past week Courtine’s group published another paper in Nature, “Walking naturally after spinal cord injury using a brain–spine interface.” I urge you to...

At this year’s 18th Annual Science & Advocacy Symposium our unofficial theme is going to be ‘A Celebration of Advocacy’. I say ‘unofficial’ because I feel like we try to celebrate advocacy every year at our conference. This year, though, we want to be even more intentional about incorporating the advocacy experience - both its successes and