Sandra I. Vieira (Portugal), graduated in Biochemistry from the University of Porto, and Ph.D in Biology-Neurosciences from the University of Aveiro, is an assistant professor at the Department of Medical Sciences of the University of Aveiro, where she Coordinates the Doctorate in Rehabilitation Sciences. PI of the SPARK Lab and Head of the Imaging Facility at the Institute of Biomedicine (iBiMED, Aveiro), her current work focuses on various strategies for neuro and osteo regeneration and rehabilitation, from the molecular basis of regeneration, passing through cellular therapy and intelligent biomaterials.

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Prof. Jivko Stoyanov is leading the group of SCI Population Biobanking and Translational Research at the Swiss Paraplegic Research in Nottwil, Switzerland and is Titularprofessor at the Intitute of Social and Preventive Medicine at the University of Bern. At ISPM he works closely with PD Dr Marija Glisic on projects involving epidemiology of Spinal Cord Injury. He received a PhD in molecular biology from the University of Birmingham, UK, M.Sc. in Translational Medicine from the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, M.Sc. in Biotechnology from the University of Sofia, Bulgaria and an EMBA from the University of St Gallen, Switzerland. From 2001 till 2007 he was employed at the University of Bern by the former Institute of Clinical Pharmacology and the former Insitute of Surgical Technology and Biomechanics. At the Swiss Paraplegic Research, since 2007 he established a laboratory which works on topics related to the spinal cord injury and heads the biobank of the multicenter Swiss Spinal Cord Injury Cohort Study (SwiSCI).

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PD Dr. Zipser is a senior consultant at the Center for Paraplegia and in the Department of Neurology and Neurophysiology. He studied human medicine at the Goethe University Frankfurt with stays abroad in Lyon, Paris and New York City. He completed his specialist training in neurology at Balgrist University Hospital, Zurich University Hospital and Tübingen University Hospital. His clinical focus is on neurophysiology in patients with back problems, paraplegia and (poly)neuropathies. In 2023, he completed a fellowship at the BG Unfallklinik in Frankfurt am Main and successfully completed the Eurospine Diploma. Dr. Zipser obtained his habilitation from the University of Zurich with a publication on intraoperative cerebrospinal fluid pressure measurement in patients with degenerative cervical myelopathy (DCM). Dr. Zipser leads a research group on CSF pressure diagnostics and spinal cord compression and is actively involved in studies on imaging and diagnosis of DCM. In addition, he holds a Master of Arts (M.A.) in Philosophy from the University of Hagen with a thesis on the theory of science.