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 - March – Global Statistical Test (GST) Approach
Michael G. Fehlings MD PhD FRCSC FACS FRSC FCAHS, Dr. Karlo Pedro - June – Open Data Commons (ODC) for SCI (and TBI): A good Home for Your Data!
Adam R. Ferguson, MS, PhD
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 Nicholas2023
- 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 Consortium2021
- 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