#  Numa P. Perez 

2011-12 Summer Fellows

Host Lab: Dr. Grégoire Courtine 

 

 

 



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**Project Summary**: My involvement in Dr. Courtine's lab was two-fold. I worked under the mentorship of Ms. Lucia Friedli and Ms. Janine Heutschi, two of Dr. Courtine's PhD students, who developed a rodent model for a multi-system rehabilitation strategy to regain locomotor function following a severe SCI. I participated in a follow-up study, which seeks to address some of the feedback received from their peers in the field. At around the 4-week mark of my stay in Lausanne, I was given the great opportunity to take on a task of my own, which is part of a larger ongoing study. The project seeks to elucidate the changes in neural activity that take place in the rodent motor cortex as the animal recovers from a single, paralyzing hemisection lesion to the thoracic spinal cord, and regains bipedal locomotion.



 

 

 





 

 

- ## Fellowships
    
     [Summer Research Fellowships](/fellowships/summer-research-fellowships)
- ## Fellowship Year
    
     [2011-2012](/fellowship-year/2011-2012)