By Stuart Wolpert January 05, 2012 Category: Academics & Faculty, Health Sciences, Research
 
V. Reggie EdgertonV. Reggie Edgerton, UCLA distinguished professor of integrative biology and physiology and of neurobiology; Yury Gerasimenko, professor and director of the laboratory of movement physiology at St. Petersburg's Pavlov Institute and a researcher in UCLA’s Department of Integrative Biology and Physiology; and colleagues have been awarded a Popular Mechanics' 2011 Breakthrough Award for developing "an electric therapy that stimulates spinal nerves, allowing the paralyzed to walk." Edgerton, Gerasimenko and their...