Funding

The research laboratory of Balgrist University Hospitals Paraplegic Centre is mainly financed by project funds from the following organisations:

• AO Spine
• Betty and David Koetser Foundation for Brain Research
• Commission for Technology and Innovation
• European Commission FP7
• Forschungsfonds für Paraplegie Balgrist
• International Foundation for Research in Paraplegia
• OPO-Stiftung
• Schweizer Paraplegiker Stiftung
• Swiss National Science Foundation
• Wings for Life Spinal Cord Research Foundation

Our research laboratory is part of:

• Neuroscience Centre Zurich (ZNZ)
• National Centre of Competence in Research "Neural Plasticity and Repair" (NCCR-Neuro) with the project on spinal cord repair
• Zurich Centre for Integrative Human Physiology (ZIHP)

Infrastructure costs for the laboratory are borne jointly by Balgrist University Hospital and the University of Zurich.

Two spin-off companies have emerged from the Paraplegic Centres research laboratory and we continue to cooperate closely with both of them:

• ALEA Solutions GmbH (software engineering & measurement technology)
• Hocoma AG (medical engineering)