Zusman Leadership Team
Dr. Horner received a PhD in physiology from Ohio State University in 1995. He performed his postdoctoral training with Dr. Fred H. Gage and became a staff scientist in the Lab of Genetics at the Salk Institute in 1998. In 2001, Dr. Horner joined the faculty of the Department of Neurological Surgery at the University of Washington in Seattle. He directed a laboratory at the UW South Lake Union Campus and was a member of the Institute for Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine. In 2015, Dr. Horner became the scientific director of the Center for Neuroregeneration and the co-director of the Center for Regenerative and Restorative Neurosurgery at the Houston Methodist Research Institute. He also holds a faculty position at the Weill Cornell Medical College, New York. Dr. Horner’s research focuses on the role of glial and neural progenitor cells in the regeneration of the injured and aging nervous system.
Dr. Fouad is a renowned neuroscientist with an academic career spanning over two decades. He has been a Full Professor at the University of Alberta since 2008, where he previously held positions as an Associate Professor and Assistant Professor, each as an Alberta Heritage Foundation Scholar. Currently he is also serving as the Co-Director and Editor for the Open Data Commons for Spinal Cord Injury and is also a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair for Spinal Cord Injury. Before joining the University of Alberta, he obtained his PhD in Neuroscience from the University of Konstanz in Germany and served as a Post-Doctoral Researcher at the Brain Research Institute at the University and ETH Zürich, and at Ben-Gurion University in Israel. With his worldwide collaborations, Dr. Fouad has made significant contributions to the study of spinal cord injury and rehabilitation, with a specific focus on the role of neuroplasticity in functional recovery.
