Funding

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

• Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF)
• Commission for Technology and Innovation (CTI)
• International Foundation for Research in Paraplegia (IFP)
• Betty and David Koetser Foundation for Brain Research
• Wings for Life (WfL)
• OPO-Stiftung 

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)