AwardNovember 2025
Mission Connect 2025: Overall Best SCI Poster
Won Overall Best SCI Poster; covered by the TIRR Foundation recap of the Dr. Robert G. Grossman Mission Connect Neurotrauma Symposium.
Joseph Sandoval
Neuroscience researcher specializing in quantitative locomotion analysis and spinal cord injury recovery. Research assistant in the Chen Lab at the University of Texas Medical Branch, with kinesiology training at the University of Houston-Clear Lake.
I study how movement patterns reorganize after spinal cord injury using a T8 lateral hemisection mouse model in the Chen Neurobiology Lab at the University of Texas Medical Branch, with this work supported by the Craig H. Neilsen Foundation. I build markerless gait-analysis pipelines that turn raw movement into objective recovery metrics. Read more about my research.
Education
University of Houston-Clear Lake
B.S. Kinesiology
Current Position
University of Texas Medical Branch
Research Assistant, Dept. of Neurobiology
Awards
November 2025
Overall Best SCI Poster
Mission Connect 2025
August 2024
Craig H. Neilsen Foundation Research Grant
Craig H. Neilsen Foundation