Grégoire Courtine is Professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL), where serves as director of the Neuroscience Institute. With neurosurgeon Jocelyne Bloch, Grégoire co-founded and lead a research center called .NeuroRestore, which pioneers treatments involving intelligent neural interfaces to restore motor and autonomic functions after spinal cord injury and neurodegenerative disorders. Gregoire and Jocelyne received the 2026: The Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering for their contribution to modern neural interfaces. They also co-founded ONWARD Medical, a publically listed company scaling these medical advances into widely accessible treatments.
Grégoire Courtine
EPFL Lausanne, Switzerland