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Translational Research or Human Neuroscience Studies in Spinal Cord Injury (TRoHNS) Award
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The 2025 TRoHNS award has been presented to Prof. Dr. Norbert Weidner for his abstract: “Nociceptor-driven SCI-Induced Neuropathic Pain.”
Norbert Weidner is a board certified neurologist, has been medical director and head of the Spinal Cord Injury Center at Heidelberg University Hospital.
The TRoHNS award, sponsored by ASIA past president Keith Tansey, MD, PhD, has been instituted in alignment with ASIA’s goal to support investigators across a broader continuum of spinal cord injury science and to encourage work in under-developed areas in the field.
The TRoHNs award is given for the best abstract submitted to the annual ASIA conference by a clinician or scientist involved in translational research or human neuroscience studies in spinal cord injury.
TRoHNS Rules and Eligibility
Submissions for the TRoHNS award are accepted through the General Call for Abstracts. Submitters do not have to be members of ASIA but ASIA membership will be favored, as will junior investigator status. After reviewing all submitted abstracts self-identified for consideration for this award, the program committee will determine the top 5 papers in the areas of the award as outlined above and will forward these to the Research and Awards Committee and Dr. Tansey to determine the winner.
Individuals currently serving as ASIA President, President-Elect, Immediate Past President, Research and Awards Committee Chair and Vice Chair are ineligible for the TRoHNS Award.
Past TRoHNS Award Recipients
2024 – Ryan Hoiland, PhD
“Treatment with Adjuvant Ethyl Nitrite in the Acute Phase Following Traumatic CIi Improves Cardiovascular Function in Rodents 12 Weeks Following SCI.”
2023 – Lukas D. Linde, PhD
“Long Duration, Low-Concentration Topical Capsaicin Diminishes the Development of Central Sensitization.”
2022 – Andrew Smith, PT, DPT, PhD
“Epidural stimulation-promoted standing ability and spinal cord lesion characteristics in motor complete SCI.“
2020 – Dr. Kiran Pawar
“Noninvasive Chronic Spinal Stimulation as a Multi-session Therapy to Improve Cardiovascular Function After Spinal Cord Injury.”
2019 – Alexandra M. Williams PhD
“A Cardiac-Centered approach to Hemodynamic Management Increases Spinal Cord Oxygenation in a Porcine Model of Acute High-Thoracic Spinal Cord Injury.”
