Meet the Lab
Marie-Pascale Côté, Ph.D
Associate Professor of Neurobiology and Anatomy, Drexel University
Marion Murray Spinal Cord Research Center
Dr Côté completed her Ph.D. at the University of Montréal in Canada. After completing her postdoctoral training at the University of Louisville and Drexel University, she accepted a position with the Marion Murray Spinal Cord Research Center to continue her ongoing research on spinal cord plasticity, spinal cord injury and rehabilitative strategies to optimize motor recovery. Dr. Côté has worked at Drexel University since 2008 and served as director of the Electrophysiology Core at the Marion Murray Spinal Cord Research Center from 2013 to 2016.
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Jadwiga N. Bilchak
Doctoral Student (2016 – present)
Jadwiga’s current project in the Côté lab aim to understand the effects of increasing chloride extrusion on spasticity and locomotion post-SCI. Her experiments utilize both exercise rehabilitation strategies and pharmacological approaches to increase activity of the chloride cotransporter, KCC2, to improve spastic symptoms and locomotor recovery.
Jeremy Weinberger
Doctoral Student (2019 - Present)
Jeremy’s research interests focus on locomotion and spasticity following spinal cord injury. With the use of a 15-channel epidural electrode array, he is studying how epidural stimulation can be applied to improve locomotor recovery and diminish spastic behavior after injury.
Radhika Patel
MD Student (2021 - Present)
Radhika is interested in how our body responds to injuries and is fascinated by how our body recovers after injury. In particular, she is interested in rehabilitation after spinal cord injury aimed at the reducing local hyper-excitability in spinal networks.
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Dillon Malloy
Doctoral Student (2017 – present)
Dillon is interested in using neuromodulatory therapies to induce functional recovery and neuroplasticity after spinal cord injury. His work combines behavioral, electrophysiological, and anatomical methods to investigate using non-invasive transcutaneous spinal cord stimulation as a rehabilitation therapy.
Christine Buhalo
Research Assistant (2021 - Present)
Christine is an MLAS student at Drexel University. She enjoys providing care for animals and is excited to learn about the recovery process of spinal cord injury as a new member of the Côté lab team.
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Helena Zatawski
Post-Bac Student (2021 - Present)
Helena is a Masters of Biomedical Studies (MBS) student at Drexel. She is interested in learning more about how spinal cord injury and rehabilitation can be used to directly improve patient outcomes and quality of life post-injury, as well as gaining vital experience in lab research.
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Alumni
Guillaume Caron, Ph.D.
Post-doctoral fellow (2016 - 2019)
Post-doctoral researcher
SPPIN - Saints-Pères Paris Institute for the Neurosciences -
Renaud Jeffrey-Gauthier, DC, Ph.D.
(Visiting scholar, 2017)
Professor, Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières
Collaborators
Maria Knikou, Ph.D.
Professor, CUNY College of Staten Island
Susan Harkema, Ph.D.
Professor, University of Louisville
https://louisville.edu/kscirc/basic-research/faculty-1/susan-harkema
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Yury Gerasimenko, Ph.D.
Research Scientist, Victory over Paralysis
https://victoryoverparalysis.org/yury-gerasimenko-phd-d-sci/
Hugues Leblond, Ph.D.
Professor, Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières