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!
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

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

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

Benowitz LI
- Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Program in Neuroscience, Department of Surgery, Boston, 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

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

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

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

Curt A
- ICORD, University of British Columbia, Canada

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

Ellaway PH
- Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Imperial College London, Charing Cross Campus, London, UK

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

Ginsberg MD
- Department of Neurology, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, 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

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

Hall ED
- Spinal Cord and Brain Injury Research Center, University of Kentucky College of Medicine, Lexington, Kentucky, 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

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

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

Kiss JZ
- Department of Neuroscience, University of Geneva, Switzerland

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

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

Lagasse E
- Department of Pathology, McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine, University of Pittsburgh Medical School, Pittsburgh, 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

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

Moolenaar WH
- Division of Cellular Biochemistry, Centre for Biomedical Genetics, The Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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 FJ
- Zentrum für Integrative Psychiatrie Kiel, Zellbiologisches Labor, Germany

Müller HW
- Neuraxo Biotech GmbH, Dusseldorf, Germany

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

Perrin F
- Institut des Neurosciences de Montpellier, INSERM U583, Hôpital saint Eloi, Montpellier, France

Perry VH
- School of Biological Sciences, University of Southampton, UK

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

Popovich P
- Molecular Virology, Immunology & Medical Genetics, The Ohio State University, USA

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

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

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

Roser F
- Department of Neurosurgery, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

Rossignol S
- CRSN/Faculté de médecine, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Canada

Rotshenker S
- Department of Anatomy & Cell Biology, Hebrew University Faculty of Medicine, Jerusalem, Israel

Schnell L
- Brain Research Institute, ETH and University of Zurich 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

Sievert KD
- Department of Urology, University of Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany

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

Stenzl A
- Department of Urology, University of Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany

Strittmatter SM
- Neurology, Yale University, USA

Tabar V
- Neurosurgery, Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, 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

Unsicker K
- Interdisciplinary Center for Neurosciences (IZN) & Neuroanatomy, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

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

Woiciechowsky C
- Neurosurgery, Charité, Humboldt University of 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

Yue Z
- Department of Neurology, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, USA

Yuzaki M
- Department of Neurophysiology, School of Medicine, Keio University, Tokyo, Japan

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
- Biological Sciences Division Neurobiology Section, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California, USA



