Human neurons for personalized rehabilitation medicine research that were derived using induced pluripotent stem cell technology in Dr. Franz's Laboratory of Regenerative Neurorehabilitation.

Dr. Colin Franz presented with Richard Materson ERF New Investigator Award at American Academy of PM&R Annual Meeting in Orlando

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Dr. Colin Franz received the Materson ERF New Investigator Award from the Foundation for Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at the AAPM&R annual meeting in Orlando, FL on October 25, 2018. His award was for his exciting research focused on precision rehabilitation medicine entitled “’Neurotrauma in a Dish: An Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell-based Assay to Determine Patient-specific Factors Affecting Rehabilitation Outcomes”.  Ultimately, he hopes this line of investigation will improve our ability to personalize rehabilitation treatments based on person-specific factors such as their genetic make up.  Past award winners of this award include SRAlab's very own Dr. Prakash Jayabalan in 2016.