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The 2024 Distinguished G. Heiner Sell Lectureship of ASIA was presented by Armin Curt. Dr. Curt is Chief and Director of the Spinal Cord Injury Centre at Balgrist University Hospital. The Sell Lecture, “Inclusive Trial Design: The Value of Real-World Data” was presented during the 2024 Annual Scientific Meeting in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Armin Curt’s research interests are translational research in human SCI, neuro-rehabilitation, clinical neurophysiology and neuro-imaging in human SCI. He is founder and chair of the largest European SCI Clinical network (www.emsci.org) established in 2004 and involved in early translational clinical trials. The network focuses on clinical recovery profiles and is establishing prediction models to inform the setup of interventional clinical trials and provide outcome thresholds of clinically meaningful neurological and functional assessments. Armin Curt is a scientific advisor and board member of national and international SCI foundations seeking to support preclinical research and fostering the translational path for the development of novel treatment strategies for patients suffering from acute and chronic spinal cord injury.
The G. Heiner Sell Lectureship was inaugurated in 1982, following the untimely death of Dr. Sell the previous year. At that time, Dr. Sell was the President-Elect of ASIA. The association wanted to memorialize him by presenting this named lecture as the keynote of its annual conference.
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