Gregoire Courtine

Gregoire Courtine

G. Courtine is Professor of Neurosciences at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), and Adjunct Professor in the neurosurgical department of the University Hospital Lausanne (CHUV) and Faculty of Medicine and Biology of the University of Lausanne (UNIL). Together with functional neurosurgeon Jocelyne Bloch, he founded and lead the Defitech Center for Interventional Neurotherapies, named .NeuroRestore, which develops neurotherapies involving surgical interventions to improve recovery from neurological disorders. G. and Jocelyne also founded ONWARD Medical to scale up their neurotherapies to widely available clinical treatments. ONWARD Medical is now traded on Euronext (ONWD).

G. Courtine was trained in Physics and Neurosciences. His passion for translational neurosciences has fueled his research in the development of neurotechnologies to improve recovery from neurological disorders. After obtaining the Chancellor Award during his post-doc at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), he established his own laboratory at the University of Zurich in 2008 before joining the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL) in 2012. He is now Full Professor of Neuroscience and Neurotechnology in the Center for Neuroprosthetics at EPFL and in the department of Neurosurgery at the University Hospital Lausanne (CHUV) where he is director of the Defitech Center for Interventional Neurotherapies (.NeuroRestore). He is also Chief Scientific Officer (CSO) of ONWARD medical, a start-up he founded in 2014 to translate the neurotechnologies developed in his laboratory into clinical treatments.

 

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  • Organization
    Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
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    Professor of Neurosciences

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