Spinal Cord Injury (SCI) Repair Strategies

Giuseppe Perale is currently Professor of Regenerative Medicine at the Faculty of Biomedical Sciences of the University of Southern Switzerland (USI) in Lugano, Switzerland, and visiting Professor at the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Experimental and Clinical Traumatology in Vienna, Austria Filippo Rossi is Associate Professor in Applied Physical Chemistry at the Department of Chemistry, Materials and Chemical Engineering “Giulio Natta” at Politecnico di Milano, Italy. His research focused on innovative polymer materials for nanomedicine, drug delivery, biosensors, and tissue engineering, both experimental and modeling techniques.

• 1. Introduction to spinal cord injury as clinical pathology2. Spinal cord injury: role of neurophysiology3. Conventional treatments and surgical margins of maneuvering for spinal cord injury management4. MRI as an imaging tool for in vivo noninvasive morphological and (partially) functional examination of injured spinal cord5. Spinal cord injury: ethical issues6. Elements of material science and polymeric biomaterials7. Soft and rigid scaffolds for spinal cord injury regeneration8. Nanomaterials for spinal cord injury (SCI) regeneration9. Cell therapies for spinal cord injury regeneration10. Functional properties of progenitor-like cells in the spinal cord: implications for self-repair11. Paracrine effects for spinal cord injury regeneration12. Pharmacological therapies and factors delivery for spinal cord injury regeneration13. Reliability on animal models14. Fundamentals and application of modeling in support of spinal cord injury repair strategies