Professor Jocelyne Bloch, Professor Grégoire Courtine

Professor Jocelyne Bloch is Professor of Neurosurgery at the Lausanne University Hospital (CHUV), where she leads the Department of Neurosurgery. Professor Grégoire Courtine is Professor of Neuroscience at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL), where serves as director of the EPFL Neuroscience Institute. Jocelyne and Grégoire co-founded and lead a research centre called .NeuroRestore, which pioneers treatments involving intelligent neural interfaces to restore motor and autonomic functions after spinal cord injury, neurodegenerative disorders, and stroke. They also co-founded ONWARD Medical, a publicly listed company scaling these medical advances into widely accessible treatments.