SCOPE Shorts

SCOPE Shorts are monthly presentations on relevant topics. Some shorts are publically available as clickable links below.

2026

• January 2026 – Designing Clinical Studies Targeting Ryk Signaling in Neurons and Astrocytes
  Yimin Zou, VersaPeutics
• February 2026 – The Integrated Neurological Change Score (INCS): A Sensitive Composite Endpoint For Acute Cervical SCI Trials
  Armin Curt, MD, Spinal Cord Injury Center,University of Zurich
• March – Global Statistical Test (GST) Approach 
  Michael G. Fehlings MD, PhD, FRCSC, FACS, FRSC, FCAHS
  UHN/University of Toronto, Dr. Karlo Pedro
  
• June – Open Data Commons (ODC) for SCI (and TBI): A Good Home for Your Data! 
  Adam R. Ferguson, MS, PhD, University of California, San Francisco
• International Comparison of SCI Recovery: Patterns and Trajectories
  Catherine Jutzeler, Dr, ETH Zürich

2025

• January 2025 – Wings for Life Accelerated Translational Program Workshop
• January 2025 – Crossing the Valley of Death in Spinal Cord Injury (Neurotrauma Reports) 
  Vieri Faili, PhD, Wings for Life
• February 2025 – PRO-ACT Database in ALS
  Dave Kuldip, PhD, ALS Association
• March, 2025 – Trial Design Options to Address Placebo REffect 
  John Kramer, PhD, ICORD
  
• April 2025 – SpineAlly: A Mobile Real-World Data Collection Platform for Spinal Cord Injury
  Aaron Phillips, PhD, and Kelly Kaiser (Hotchkiss Brain Institute) & Barry Munro (NASCIC)
• May, 2025 – Real World Data External Control Group 
  Tracy Mayne, Slipstream
• July, 2025 – Establishing an SOP for Early Neuropathic Pain Treatment After SCI Within EMSCI 
  Jan Rosner, MD, MSc, PhD, Aarhus University
  
• August, 2025 – The Potential of Wearing Sensors in SCI Clinical Trials
  Melina Giagiozis, PhD Student, ETH Zurich
  
• September, 2025 – E-ISNCSCI-V2
  Stephen Burns, MD, University of Washington
  
• November, 2025 – Advancements with ephys in Clinical Trials
   – Enhanced Clinical Trial Stratification in SCI: the Value of Electrophysiology
   – Spasticity as a Predictor of Recovery after Severe Spinal Cord Injury

2024

• January 2024 – MS Outcomes Assessment Consortium Overview
  Tim Coetzee, PhD Chief Advocacy, Services & Science Officer, National MS Society
• February 2024 – NACTN: The North American Clinical Trials Network “RISCIS and Beyond”
  James Guest MD, PhD, FAANS/University of Miami
• March 2024 – PT-OT BDS Validity Study
  Edelle Field-Fote, PT, PhD, FAPTA, FASIA, Shepherd Center
• April 2024 – Standardized Testing Research InVivo Endeavor (STRIVE)
  Marco Baptista, Christopher & Dana Reeve Foundation
  
• June 2024 – DISCUS Trial: Duroplasty for the Injured Cervical Spinal Cord with Uncontrolled Swelling 
  Lukas Grassner, MD, PhD
• July 2024 – Next Steps for an SCI Externally led PFDD meeting with the FDA
  David Digby, Director Abbvie Global Commercial Development
• August 2024 – SCITrialsFinder Interactive Platform
  Paulina S. Scheuren, PhD
• Outcomes of PLEX Engagement in Research Labs
  Dr. Murray Blackmore, Nancy Nicholas

  2023

• January 2023 – Lessons Learned Regarding Motor Training After SCI in Animal Models
  Karim Fouad, PhD/University of Alberta
• March 2023 – Non-replicative HSV-1 vectors use for long-term therapeutic approaches of secondary conditions following SCI
  Mikael Constrastin/EG427
• May 2023 – Mitsubishi Trial updates
  Konstantin Zubovskiy/Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma
• June 2023 – Adaptive Clinical Trials
  Donald Berry/Berry Consultants 
• July 2023 – Healey ALS Platform Trial Presentation
  Norbert Weidner, MD, James Barry
  
• November 2023 – ISRT Precourse
• December 2023 –  Central Cord Syndrome 
  Einat Haber, MD

  
  2022

• January 2022 – Regulatory and Reimbursement Overview for Medical Devices
  Megan Moynihan, PhD/Case Western Reserve University
• February 2022 – Navigating the Complexities of Cell Replacement Therapy Development
  Francois Binette, PhD/Lineage Cell Therapeutics
• March 2022 – The Role of Data Science in Spinal Cord Injury Research
  Catherine Jutzeler, Prof. Dr./ETH Zurich
• May 2022 – Insights From Studies of NVG-291 in Animal Models of Peripheral Nerve Injury, Demyelination, and Ischemic Stroke That May be Relevant to Repair in SCI
  Marc DePaul, PhD/NervGen Pharma Corp.
• June 2022 – FDA Externally led Patient Focused Drug Development
  Presented by Abbvie, Lineage, Jane Hsieh, Linda Jones
• July 2022 – Making SCI trials more efficient with Neuroimaging Biomarkers
• November 2022 – Spinal Electrical Stimulation
  Jim Guest, MD, PhD/University of Miami
• November 2022 Learnings from Transcutaneous Stimulation
  Edelle-Field-Fote/ Shepherd Center
• December 2022 – The North American Spinal Cord Injury Consortium
  Jennifer French/The North American Spinal Cord Injury Consortium

  2021

• January 2021 – ASIA Outcomes Training
  Mary Schmidt Read, PT, DPT, MS/Magee Rehabilitation
• February 2021 – Electrophysiology in SCI
  Armin Curt, Prof., Dr./University of Zurich
  Jim Guest, MD, PhD/University of Miami
• March 2021 – The International Spinal Cord Injury Physicial Therapy – Occupational Therapy Basic Data Set: Rationale, Evidence, and Validation
  Edelle Field-Fote, PT, PhD/Shepherd Center
• April 2021 – Biomarkers and the International Spinal Cord Injury Biobank (ISCIB)
  Brian Kwon, MD, PhD/University of British Columbia
• May 2021 – MRI Features of Spinal Cord Injury
  Adam Flanders, MD/Thomas Jefferson University
• June 2021 – SMART-IRB.org
  Nichelle Cobb, PhD/SMART IRB
  Ann Franklin, MSPH/SMART IRB ambassador
• July 2021 – Spinal Cord Ability Ruler (SCAR) and Unbiased Recursive Partitioning (URP)
  Marc Bolliger, PhD/University of Zurich
• September 2021 – Digital Functional Assessment
  Jose Zariffa/University of Toronto
• October 2021 – Preclinical Data Informing Clinical Study Design
  Kim Pfleeger, PhD/Abbvie Inc.
• November 2021 – Data Sharing in SCI Research (ODC-SCI)
  Karim Fouad, PhD/University of Alberta
• December 2021 – Rasch Analysis FIM SCIM
  Linda Jones, PT, PhD, Research Consultant/Thomas Jefferson University

2020

• September 2020 – Spinal Cord Injury Movement-Index
  SCI-MI/MJ Mulcahey, PhD, OTR/L/Thomas Jefferson University
• November 2020 – A Rodent-Human Sensorimotor Outcomes Matrix: Overlap and Gaps
  David Magnuson, PhD/University of Kentucky
• December 2020 – Combinatorial Approaches
  Frank Bradke, PhD/Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität