Stuart Hodgetts is Director of the Spinal Cord Repair Laboratory at the School of Human Sciences at UWA and Perron Institute for Neurological and Translational Science. His research focuses on developing pre-clinical therapies and strategies to repair the injured spinal cord and uses a range of innovative approaches to understand and assess treatment strategies including individual and combinatorial treatments including stem cell transplantation, gene therapy, in vivo reprogramming, tissue engineering, and immunomodulation, as well as non-invasive therapies such as infra-red/near infra-red implantable devices and repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation. Since 1998 he has collaborated with national and international bio-artists, as well as being an Honorary member and avid collaborator, adviser and scientific consultant for the internationally renowned Art & Science Collaborative Research Laboratory Symbiotica.