Jocelyne Bloch

[2][3] Bloch graduated in the Faculty of Medicine of Lausanne University in December 1994 and she obtained her neurosurgical degree in 2002.

[5] In collaboration with EPFL, she is currently leading a clinical feasibility study that evaluates the therapeutic potential of this spinal cord stimulation technology, without a brain implant, to improve the walking ability in people with partial spinal cord injury affecting the lower limbs.

[10][11] Jocelyne Bloch and Grégoire Courtine were named in Time 2024 100 influential people in health list.

Monkeys with spinal injuries that have left them paralysed are able to walk again through wireless implants in their brains and spines that bypass the damaged tissue.

Scientists developed a brain-spinal interface to transmit neural signals from the brain to a site in the spinal cord downstream of the injury.