Webinar Wednesday - Mechanism-guided development of a clinical-grade a hemodynamic therapy

Spinal cord injury often causes devastating cardiovascular instability due to disruption of autonomic control. In this presentation, Dr. Aaron Phillips discusses the discovery of the spinal circuits that control blood pressure, and the development of a clinical-grade therapeutic targeting these circuits that has now been tested in a number of clinical trials. These findings, recently accepted for simultaneous publication in Nature and Nature Medicine, represent a new frontier in mechanism-guided therapeutics—grounded in foundational physiology and built for clinical translation.

Presented by:

Dr. Aaron Phillips

Dr. Aaron Phillips is an Associate Professor of Clinical Neurosciences and the Associate Dean of Innovation and Commercialization at the Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary. His lab focuses on autonomic dysfunction and neuromodulation in spinal cord injury, with work published in Nature, Nature Medicine, and Neurology. He has founded a number of companies and is a consultant and equity holder in ONWARD Medical, where his work directly informs the development of next-generation neurotechnologies. Aaron has received awards such as the Science and PINS Prize for Neuromodulation from Science | AAS, the Arthur Guyton Award of Excellence in Integrative Medicine, and he leads several multi-million-dollar international studies.

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