Broad exchange of international and interdisciplinary views.
This is why the symposium in Zurich attracted pure researchers (e.g. in neurobiology and motor function) through research and industrial development engineers, to doctors and therapists. They were enthused by top quality presentations from internationally-renowned speakers. “The participants found the interdisciplinary contact and variety of presentations, from basic laboratory research to research in clinical practice, combined with workshops on machine applications, extremely useful for their day-to-day work”, according to Dr. Gery Colombo, CEO of main organizer Hocoma AG from Volketswil, near Zurich in Switzerland. “We are proud that so many well-known international speakers came to Zurich, and that symposium participants traveled from all over the world to meet with them”. It was possible to achieve this contingent of researchers because Hocoma AG acts as Industrial Partner to the MIMICS EU project, and also maintains good contacts with the Spinal Cord Repair EU project. These three pulled together, with the result that many scientists accepted the invitation to Zurich. Speakers and participants traveled here from approximately 40 countries, including the USA and Mexico, across the whole of Europe (from Norway to Italy and Portugal to Russia), as well as Thailand, Hong Kong and India.
The symposium is organized by the Swiss medical corporation Hocoma AG in collaboration with the European MIMICS (FP7 – 215756) research project and the European Spinal Cord Repair (HEALTH-F2-2007-201144) project team.
You can find more information about the International Neurorehabilitation Symposium at www.inrs2009.com.