ESCIF’s partner the Endparalysis foundation has reached the final stages of the Medical Inspirator competition. If they win the competition, they will receive a grant of 50,000 Euros for spinal cord research! At the ESCIF congress in 2014, delegates voted unanimously to become a partner of the foundation that was established by Corinne Jeanmaire. Now we have an opportunity to demonstrate ...

Verimatrix reached the target of £4500 and they completed the race! Warmest congratulation and many thanks to the whole team. The sponsored run also attracted attention in the local press as you can see below.

Earlier this month we ran a story on why a group of employees in the international security company Verimatrix, are raising funds to kick-start the ESCIF project, “Aging Well”. Inspired by the strength and courage of their colleague Olivier Griguer who became paralyzed in a mountain biking accident a few years ago, the team of six are running the French Riviera Marathon this ...

The members of Team Verimatrix have been training hard for the marathon in Nice on 8 November. The donors and sponsors have also been active – 84% of the target has now been reached! Let’s make a final push to get to 100%. Read more on https://crowdfunding.justgiving.com/team-verimatrix

With just a week to go until deadline, the efforts of Team Verimatrix have achieved 65% of the fundraising goal for ESCIF! In an earlier news story on this page, we explained why Verimatrix wished to support ESCIF: we in ESCIF are thrilled to see that the company matched the first USD 1000 raised by the team. We are overwhelmed by the generosity of all the donors – both named and anonymous. ...

A group of employees in the international company Verimatrix will take part in the Nice Marathon early next month. Team Verimatrix has decided to organize a sponsored run and to use the proceeds to support ESCIF – in particular, the “Ageing Well” project that was discussed at the last Assembly in Brno. In order to sponsor the team and donate money to ESCIF, please ...

At the ESCIF congress in Brno in May, we announced the release of the ISCoS Textbook on the Comprehensive Management of Spinal Cord Injuries. The textbook, which is published by Wolters Kluwer, was written by the same team as the ISCoS e-learning platform launched in 2012 and edited by Harvinder Singh Chhabra. The publication is now available on Amazon. Another recent publication in the ...

The delegates from ESCIF member organisations elected Tomas Moravic as the new member of the Executive. + Tomas is a member of the Czech SCI organisation Czepa and, since last autumn, the leader of the working group on Quality of Life in the ESCIF Successful Integration project. As Daniel Joggi, President of Swiss Paraplegic Foundation, who was chairing the Assembly of Delegates, ...

Spinal cord injuries at this moment in time are an unresolved scientific challenge of great social impact. The International Spinal Cord Repair Meeting 2015 ( ISCORE’15) is a one and a half day conference dedicated to recent advances in translational research in the field of Spinal Cord Injuries. The conference aims to stimulate the translation of understanding of neuroregeneration mechanisms ...

For those of you who are unable to attend the ESCIF Congress in Brno next week (20 – 22 May), there is an opportunity to follow the Congress sessions by online transmission. You can find the Congress programme on the website www.escifcongress.org. Please note that the Assembly of Delegates and other sessions on Friday 22 May will not be transmitted. Here are the links provided by our ...