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Translational Research or Human Neuroscience Studies in Spinal Cord Injury (TRoHNS) Award
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The 2024 TRoHNS award has been presented to Ryan Hoiland, PhD, for the abstract: Treatment with Adjuvant Ethyl Nitrite in the Acute Phase Following Traumatic CIi Improves Cardiovascular Function in Rodents 12 Weeks Following SCI.
Dr. Hoiland is an Assistant Professor at the University of British Columbia. He completed his PhD (2015-2018) at the University of British Columbia Okanagan, where he studied cerebrovascular physiology and human adaptation to hypoxia. As a postdoctoral fellow, Dr. Hoiland investigated the pathophysiology of hypoxic-ischemic brain injury as well as traumatic spinal cord injury, with a focus on mitigating secondary hypoxic injury. Collectively, his training involved studying how the central nervous system responds to hypoxia in pre-clinical disease models, healthy humans, and patients.
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 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
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.”
