WfL Reviewers
The following list contains world-leading scientist and clinicians who were evaluating the projects applying for Wings for Life funding within the period 2005-2007 (within a so called “peer review” process).
Being among the most reputable researchers and opinion leaders in their respective fields, they helped us to ensure optimal investment of the Wings for Life funding resources.
The quality of solicited reviewers was essential for an independent and transparent selection of outstanding projects as early as during the first funding period.
Based on criteria such as originality, feasibility and applicability to spinal cord injured patients, the selected projects will foster and strengthen international cutting-edge SCI research.
Thank you!
Akassoglou K
- Gladstone Institute of Neurological Disease, University of California, San Francisco, California, USA
Anderson DK
- Department of Neuroscience, University of Florida College of Medicine, USA
Andreasson K
- Stanford University School of Medicine, Dept of Neurology and Neurological Sciences, Stanford, California, USA
Ayoub S
- William Harvey Research Institute, Charterhouse Square, London, UK
Azzouz M
- Neurology Unit, Medical School, Sheffield University, Sheffield, UK
Baas PW
- Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy, Drexel University College of Medicine, Philadelphia, USA
Bandtlow CE
- Institute for Medical Chemistry and Biochemistry, Division of Neurobiochemistry, Innsbruck Medical University, Austria
Barnett SC
- Clinical Neurosciences, University of Glasgow, UK
Barres BA
- Department of Neurobiology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, USA
Basso DM
- Division of Physical Therapy, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA
Bastiani M
- Department of Biology, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, USA
Bastiani M
- Department of Biology, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, USA
Bazan NG
- Neuroscience Center, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center School of Medicine, New Orleans, USA
Beattie MS
- Department of Neuroscience, Ohio State University, USA
Beckel-Mitchener AC
- National Institute of Mental Health–National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
Benowitz LI
- Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Program in Neuroscience, Department of Surgery, Boston, USA
Benton RL
- Kentucky Spinal Cord Injury Research Center, University of Louisville School of Medicine, Louisville, USA
Bick-Sander A
- Molecular Neurobiology, Department of Biology-Chemistry-Pharmacy, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Blesch A
- University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California, USA
Blight AR
- Acorda Therapeutics, Inc., USA
Bolz J
- Friedrich-Schiller-Universität, Biologisch-Pharmazeutische Fakultät, Institut für Allgemeine Zoologie und Tierphysiologie, Germany
Boudin H
- Institut National de la Santé Et de la Recherche Médicale, Unité 643, University of Nantes, Nantes, France
Bradke F
- Max-Planck-Institute of Neurobiology, Axonal Growth and Regeneration, Martinsried, Germany
Brines M
- Kenneth S. Warren Institute, USA
Brück W
- Department of Neuropathology, Georg-August-Universität, Germany
Bunge M
- The Miami Project to Cure Paralysis, Miami, Florida, USA
Burns A
- Toronto Rehabilitation Institute and Division of Physiatry, Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Canada
Cabana T
- Departement de Sciences Biologiques, Universite de Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Campagnolo DI
- Director of Multiple Sclerosis Clinical Research, Barrow Neurological Institute, Phoenix, Arizona, USA
Caroni P
- Friedrich Miescher Institute, Basel, Switzerland
Castellani V
- Université de Lyon, Centre de Génétique Moléculaire et Cellulaire, Villeurbanne, France
Chedotal A
- Centre de Recherche Institu De La Vision, Paris, France
Condie BG
- Department of Genetics, University of Georgia, Athens, Greece
Courtine G
- Neurology Department, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Crabtree GR
- Department of Developmental Biology, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Stanford University, California, USA
Creasey GH
- VA Center of Excellence in Functional Electrical Stimulation, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Cummings BJ
- Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, University of California, Irvine, USA
Cummings BJ
- Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, University of California, Irvine, USA
Curt A
- Department of Anesthesiology, Spinal Cord Injury Center, University of Zurich, Balgrist University Hospital, Zurich, Switzerland
David S
- Centre for Research in Neuroscience, The Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
DiAntonio A
- Department of Molecular Biology and Pharmacology, Washington University School of Medicine, Saint Louis, Missouri, USA
Dietrich D
- The Miami Project to Cure Paralysis, Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami, Miami, Florida, USA
Dirnagl U
- Department of Experimental Neurology, Center for Stroke Research, Universitatsklinikum Charite, Berlin, Germany
Drescher U
- Medical Research Council Centre for Developmental Neurobiology, King's College London, Guy's Campus, London, United Kingdom
Duan S
- Institute of Neuroscience and Key Laboratory of Neurobiology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China
Dusart I
- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique UMR7102 Université Pierre et Marie Curie, France
Edgerton VR
- University of California, Los Angeles Departments of Physiological Science and Neurobiology Brain Research Institute, USA
El Manira A
- Nobel Institute for Neurophysiology, Department of Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
Elbasiouny SM
- Department of Physiology, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Ellaway PH
- Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Imperial College London, Charing Cross Campus, London, UK
Fainzilber M
- Department of Biological Chemistry, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
Faissner A
- Department of Cell Morphology and molecular Neurobiology, Bochum, Germany
Fawcett JW
- Centre for Brain Repair, Cambridge University, UK
Fehlings MG
- Krembil Neuroscience Center, Toronto Western Hospital, and Division of Neurosurgery, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Fernandes K
- Département de Pathologie et biologie cellulaire et le Groupe de recherche sur le système nerveux central, Universite de Montreal, Canada
Ffrench-Constant C
- Department of Pathology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
Filbin MT
- Biology Department, Hunter College, USA
Fitch MT
- Department of Emergency Medicine, Wake Forest University Health Sciences, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA
Flower RJ
- William Harvey Research Institute, Charterhouse Square, London, UK
Fouad K
- Faculty of Rehabilitation Medicine, University of Alberta, Canada
Fournier AE
- Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, Montreal Neurological Institute, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Frisén J
- Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Medical Nobel Institute, Karolinska Institute, Sweden
García-Alías G
- Centre for Brain Repair, Department of Clinical Neuroscience, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
Gavazzi I
- Wolfson CARD, Physiology, King’s College London, UK
Ghosh A
- Brain Research Institute, University of Zurich and Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Ginsberg MD
- Department of Neurology, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, USA
Goldberg JL
- Department of Ophthalmology, McKnight Vision Research Center, Bascom Palmer Eye Institute, Miami, Florida, USA
Goldman JE
- Center for Neurobiology and Behavior, Columbia University, College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, USA
Gorio A
- Dept. Medicine, Surgery and Dentistry, Faculty of Medicine, University of Milan, Milan, Italy
Grillner S
- Department of Neuroscience, Nobel institute for Neurophysiology and Stockholm Brain Institute, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
Gronert K
- University of California, Berkeley Center for Eye Disease and Development, Berkeley, California, USA
Gupta DK
- Department of Pediatric Surgery, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India
Hafler BP
- Department of Pediatric Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA
Hafler DA
- Laboratory of Molecular Immunology, Center for Neurologic Diseases, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, USA
Haggarty SJ
- Center for Human Genetic Research, Simches Research Center, Boston, USA
Hall ED
- Spinal Cord and Brain Injury Research Center, University of Kentucky College of Medicine, Lexington, Kentucky, USA
Harkema SJ
- The Brain Research Institute and Department of Neurology, University of California, Los Angeles, California, USA
He Z
- Division of Neuroscience, Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Hesse S
- Department of Neurological Rehabilitation, Klinik Berlin, Charité University Medicine, Berlin, Germany
Hill CE
- The Miami Project to Cure Paralysis, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida, USA
Holt C
- Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge, UK
Hossmann KA
- Max-Planck-Institute for Neurological Research, Cologne, Germany
Hunt SP
- Department of Cell and Development Biology University College London, London, United Kingdom
Jackson A
- Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA
Jaffrey SR
- Department of Pharmacology, Weill Medical College, Cornell University, New York, USA
Jakeman LB
- Spinal Trauma and Repair Laboratories, The Ohio State University College of Medicine and Public Health, Columbus, USA
Ji RR
- Department of Anesthesiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA
Johansson CB
- Department of Clinical Neuroscience and Center for Molecular Medicine, Karolinska Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden
Kaneko S
- Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Keio University School of Medicine, Japan
Kapfhammer JP
- Anatomisches Institut, Universität Basel, Basel, Switzerland
Karimi-Abdolrezaee S
- Division of Neurosurgery, Toronto Western Research Institute, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Karlsson AK
- Spinal Injuries Unit, Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Institute of Clinical Neuroscience, Sahlgrenska Academy, Goteborg, Sweden
Kempermann G
- Genomics of Regeneration, Center for Regenerative Therapies Dresden, Dresden, Germany
Kennedy TE
- Neurology and Neurosurgery, Faculty of Medicine, Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill University, Canada
Kerschensteiner M
- Institut für Klinische Neuroimmunologie, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, München, Germany
Kiehn O
- Mammalian Locomotor Laboratory, Department of Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
Kiehn O
- Mammalian Locomotor Laboratory, Department of Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
Kiss JZ
- Department of Neuroscience, University of Geneva, Switzerland
Knöll B
- Neuronal Gene Expression Laboratory, Eberhard-Karls-University Tübingen, Interfaculty Institute for Cell Biology, Department of Molecular Biology, Tübingen, Germany
Kokaia Z
- Lab. of Neural Stem Cell Biology, Section of Restorative Neurology, Lund Strategic Research Center for Stem Cell Biology and Cell Therapy, University Hospital, Lund, Sweden
Kollias SS
- Institute of Neuroradiology, University Hospital of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Kotter MR
- Department of Clinical Neuroscience and Anne McLaren Laboratory for Regenerative Medicine, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Krassioukov AV
- International Collaboration On Repair Discoveries (ICORD), University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Krieglstein K
- Zentrum Anatomie, Abt. Neuroanatomie, Universität Gottingen, Germany
Kupsch A
- Department of Neurology, Homboldt University of Berlin, Charité, Berlin, Germany
Lagasse E
- Department of Pathology, McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine, University of Pittsburgh Medical School, Pittsburgh, USA
Langley B
- Burke-Cornell Medical Research Institute, White Plains, New York, USA
Lassmann H
- Centre for Brain Research, Medical University of Vienna, Austria
Laufer SA
- Institute of Pharmacy, Department of Pharmaceutical and Medicinal Chemistry, Eberhard-Karls-Universitat, Tubingen, Germany
Lieberman AR
- Department of Anatomy and Developmental Biology, University College London, London, UK
Lingor P
- Department of Neurology, Georg-August-University Göttingen, University Medicine, Göttingen, Germany
Logan A
- Molecular Neuroscience Group, Division of Medical Sciences, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, UK
Luft AR
- Clinical Neurorehabilitation, Department of Neurology, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Mackay-Sim A
- National Centre for Adult Stem Cell Research, Eskitis Institute for Cell and Molecular Therapies, Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia
Mallat M
- Institut National de la Sante et de la Recherche Medicale Unite 711, Paris, France
Mandemakers WJ
- Neurobiology, School of Medicine, Stanford University, USA
Mann M
- Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry, Martinsried (Munich), Germany
Martin-Villalba A
- Molecular Neurobiology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany
Martino G
- Department of Neurology, San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy
Mathiesen T
- Department of Neurosurgery, Karolinska Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden
Mauritz KH
- Department of Neurology, Klinik Berlin, Germany
McFarland DJ
- Nervous System Disorders, Wadsworth Laboratories, New York State Department of Health, USA
McTigue DM
- Center for Brain and Spinal Cord Repair, The Ohio State University, Columbus, USA
Meisel A
- Klinik und Poliklinik fur Neurologie, Charite-Universitatsmedizin Berlin, Campus Mitte, Berlin, Germany
Miller RH
- Institute for Health and Aging, University of California, San Francisco, USA
Misgeld T
- Institute for Neuroscience, Technical University, Munich, Germany
Molina-Holgado E
- Laboratorio de Neuroinflamacion, Unidad de Neurologia Experimental, Hospital Nacional de Paraplejicos, Toledo, Spain
Moolenaar WH
- Division of Cellular Biochemistry, Centre for Biomedical Genetics, The Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Moritz CT
- Department of Physiology & Biophysics and Washington National Primate Research Center, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA
Morrow JD
- Division of Clinical Pharmacology, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, USA
Murthy VN
- Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology and Center for Brain Science, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Müller A
- Department of Neurosurgery, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms Universität Bonn, Bonn, Germany
Müller FJ
- Zentrum für Integrative Psychiatrie Kiel, Zellbiologisches Labor, Germany
Müller HW
- Neuraxo Biotech GmbH, Dusseldorf, Germany
Müller-Putz GR
- Laboratory of Brain-Computer Interfaces, Institute for Knowledge Discovery, Graz University of Technology, Graz, Austria
Nedergaard M
- Department of Neurosurgery, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York, USA
Neumann H
- Neural Regeneration Unit, Institute of Reconstructive Neurobiology, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany
Neumann S
- Department of Anatomy, University of California, San Francisco, California, USA
Novikova LN
- Department of Integrative Medical Biology, Section of Anatomy, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
Okano H
- Department of Physiology, Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
Olsson T
- Center for Molecular Medicine, Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Neuroimmunology Unit, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
Oudega M
- The Miami Project to Cure Paralysis and the Department of Neurological Surgery, University of Miami School of Medicine, Miami, Florida, USA
Pearse DD
- Neurological Surgery, The Neuroscience Program, The Miami Project to Cure Paralysis, Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami, USA
Pelles E
- Department of Molecular Cell Biology, The Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
Perrin F
- Institut des Neurosciences de Montpellier, INSERM U583, Hôpital saint Eloi, Montpellier, France
Perry VH
- School of Biological Sciences, University of Southampton, UK
Plesnila N
- Department of Physiology and Medical Physics, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Dublin, Ireland
Plotkin M
- Department of Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Radiooncology, Campus Virchow-Klinikum, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany
Polosa C
- Department of Anaesthesia, Royal Victoria Hospital, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Popko B
- Jack Miller Center for Peripheral Neuropathy, Department of Neurology, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Popovich P
- Molecular Virology, Immunology & Medical Genetics, The Ohio State University, USA
Priller J
- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Universitatsklinikum Charite, Berlin, Germany
Prinz M
- Department of Neuropathology, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
Propst F
- Max F. Perutz Laboratories, Department of Molecular Cell Biology, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
Prüß H
- Department of Neurology, Charité, University Medicine Berlin, Campus Mitte, Berlin, Germany
Raineteau O
- Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Cambridge, Robinson Way, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Raisman G
- Institute of Neurology, UCL, London, UK
Raivich G
- Perinatal Brain Repair Group, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Department of Anatomy, University College London, London, UK
Ramon-Cueto A
- Laboratory of Neural Regeneration, Institute of Biomedicine, Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Valencia, Spain
Ramon-Cueto A
- Laboratory of Neural Regeneration, Institute of Biomedicine, Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Valencia, Spain
Ratan RR
- Burke-Cornell Medical Research Institute, White Plains, New York, USA
Reier PJ
- Department of Neuroscience, McKnight Brain Institute, University of Florida, USA
Reynolds BA
- Department of Neurosurgery, McKnight Brain Institute, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA
Richardson PM
- Neuroscience Centre, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Academic Department of Neurosurgery, The Royal London Hospital, London, United Kingdom
Rivest S
- Department of Anatomy and Physiology, Laval University, Québec, Canada
Roser F
- Department of Neurosurgery, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
Rossignol S
- CRSN/Faculté de médecine, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Canada
Rothwell JC
- University College London Institute of Neurology, Queen Square, London, United Kingdom
Rotshenker S
- Department of Anatomy & Cell Biology, Hebrew University Faculty of Medicine, Jerusalem, Israel
Ru-Rong J
- Pain Research Center, Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Scherer R
- Computer Science & Engineering University of Washington, Seattle, USA
Schnell L
- Brain Research Institute, ETH and University of Zurich Switzerland
Schubert M
- Spinal Cord Injury Centre, University Hospital Balgrist, Zürich, Switzerland
Schultz PG
- Department of Chemistry and The Skaggs Institute for Chemical Biology, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California, USA
Schwab ME
- Brain Research Institute, ETH and University of Zurich Switzerland
Schäbitz WR
- Department of Neurology, University of Münster, Münster, Germany
Sendtner M
- Department of Neurology, University of Würzburg, Germany
Sherman LS
- Division of Neuroscience,Oregon National Primate Research Center, Health and Science University, Beaverton, USA
Shi SH
- Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, USA
Sievert KD
- Department of Urology, University of Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany
Silver J
- Department of Neurosciences, School of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, USA
Sofroniew MV
- Department of Physiological Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles, California, USA
Sonntag KC
- Center for Neuroregeneration Research, Udall Parkinson's Disease Center of Excellence, McLean Hospital, Belmont, USA
Sotelo C
- Cátedra de Neurobiología del Desarrollo Remedios Caro Almela, Instituto de Neurociencias de Alicante, Universidad Miguel Hernández de Elche-Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, ...
Stenzl A
- Department of Urology, University of Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany
Strittmatter SM
- Neurology, Yale University, USA
Stürmer C
- Department of Biology, University of Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany
Tabar V
- Neurosurgery, Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, USA
Teng KK
- Department of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, USA
Teng YD
- Harvard Medical School, Brigham & Women’s Hospital, Children’s Hospital Boston, USA
Tetzlaff W
- ICORD (International Collaboration On Repair Discoveries), University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
Thallmair M
- The Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, California, USA
Tsai E
- Division of Neurosurgery, The Ottawa Hospital and University of Ottawa, Canada
Tsoulfas P
- Neurosurgery and Cell Biology and Anatomy, University of Miami School of Medicine, USA
Tuszynski MH
- Department of Neurosciences, University of California-San Diego, La Jolla, and Veterans Affairs Medical Center, San Diego, USA
Ullrich O
- Institute of Anatomy, Faculty of Medicine, University of Zurich, Switzerland
Unsicker K
- Interdisciplinary Center for Neurosciences (IZN) & Neuroanatomy, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
Vanderhaeghen P
- Institut de Recherche Interdisciplinaire en Biologie Humaine et Moléculaire, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium
Verhaagen J
- Workgroup Neuroregeneration, Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience, The Netherlands
Walsh FS
- Discovery, Research, Wyeth Research, USA
Wang KKW
- McKnight Brain Institute, University of Florida, USA
Wee Yong V
- Departments of Clinical Neurosciences and Oncology, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Wekerle H
- Max-Planck-Institute of Neurobiology, Martinsried, Germany
Wernig A
- Physiology, Neurophysiology, University of Bonn, Germany
Wizenmann A
- Institute of Anatomy, Experimental Embryology and Tissue Engineering, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
Woiciechowsky C
- Neurosurgery, Charité, Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany
Woitzik J
- Department of Neurosurgery, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Campus Benjamin Franklin, Berlin, Germany
Wong LF
- Oxford BioMedica Ltd., Medawar Centre, Robert Robinson Avenue, Oxford Science Park, Oxford, UK
Wu X
- Genomics Institute of the Novartis Research Foundation, San Diego, California, USA
Yan R
- Department of Neurosciences, Lerner Research Institute, The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Yezierski RP
- Department of Orthodontics, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA
Yue Z
- Department of Neurology, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, USA
Zheng B
- Department of Neurosciences, University of California San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, California, USA
Zheng JQ
- Department of Neuroscience and Cell Biology, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey Piscataway, USA
Zipp F
- Institute of Neuroimmunology, Charite - Universitatsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Zou Y
- Division of Biology, Section of Neuroscience, University of California San Diego, USA
