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| The Blusson Spinal Cord Centre is the world’s largest, most advanced and most comprehensive facility devoted to spinal cord injury research and patient care. The six-storey, $45-million centre is home to ICORD (International Collaboration on Repair Discoveries) and is a partnership of the University of British Columbia, the Rick Hansen Foundation, the Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute, and the VGH & UBC Hospital Foundation. ICORD has more than 300 researchers working to develop strategies that will help people adapt to and recover from spinal cord injuries. |
“The Blusson Spinal Cord Centre goes beyond any other facility in the world in bringing spinal cord patients together with outstanding researchers and health-care professionals,”
- Mr.Gordon Campbell (BC Premier)
“Interdisciplinary collaboration is one of the exciting features the new Blusson Spinal Cord Centre offers to attract and retain outstanding researchers from around the world,”
- Dr. Stephen Toope (UBC President)
“The Blusson Spinal Cord Centre project was the catalyst that enabled ICORD to rapidly evolve and expand to be the world’s largest and most comprehensive spinal research centre,”
- Dr. John Steeves (ICORD Founder and Director)
A Special thanks to Delicious Photography for their picture contributions for this Album 
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