Professor Jerry Silver of the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and our Scientific Committee has been awarded one of the highest achievements in the neurosciences.
He has been selected as the recipient of the 2003 Ameritec Prize for a significant accomplishment toward a cure for paralysis. The prize recognizes his major contribution to the field of neuroscience by demonstrating that the degenerating white matter that develops after a spinal cord injury does not always inhibit nerve fibre regrowth.
Jerry has been a valuable member of the Spinal Research Scientific Committee since 1992 and is a former grantholder.
Previous winners include:
- Prof. Martin Schwab, Zurich, Switzerland
- Prof. Yves-Alain Barde, France
- Prof. Fred Gage, the Salk Institute, California
- Prof. Corey Goodman, the University of California at Berkeley
- Prof. Marc Tessier-Lavigne, the University of California at San Francisco
- Prof. Thomas Jessel, Columbia University
- Prof. Albert Aguayo, McGill University, Montreal
- Prof. Marie Filbin, Hunter College of the City University of New York
- Prof. Mu-Ming Poo, the University of California at Berkeley
- Prof. Stephen Strittmatter, Yale University.
The Ameritec Prize was established in 1987 specifically to recognize scientists whose research advances the search towards a cure for paralysis. Winners of the $40,000 prize, funded by the nonprofit Ameritec Foundation in Covino, California, are chosen by an advisory board of prominent medical researchers.
The Ameritec Foundation is a charitable, non-profit public benefit foundation founded in 1987 by two entrepreneurs and philanthropists, Thomas A. Hollfelder and John R. Watson.
