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    Peter J. Grahn, PhD (he/him/his)

    Assistant Professor
    Mayo Clinic
    Rich, Minnesota, United States

    Peter Grahn, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor within Mayo Clinic’s Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. The overarching goals of Dr. Grahn’s research are to generate new knowledge of electrophysiological and functional activity that is enabled by spinal neuromodulation in people with sensorimotor impairment due to traumatic spinal cord injury (SCI). Dr. Grahn’s journey to a career in neuroscience research began in 2005, when he experienced a cervical SCI while swimming in one of Minnesota’s 10,000 lakes. During his PhD training (2012-16), Dr. Grahn studied several emerging approaches to restore function after neural injury, such as bioengineered scaffolds seeded with regenerative cells and growth factors. He also contributed to the development of a rodent model of SCI that involves implantation of biomaterials, epidural stimulation, motor training, chronic electrophysiology, and 3-D kinematics to enhance reconnection through the site of SCI. Since completing his PhD in 2016, Dr. Grahn’s work has been focused on clinical trials of epidural and transcutaneous spinal cord stimulation in people with chronic paralysis. Specifically, he has served as Principal Investigator of an ongoing clinical trial of epidural and dorsal root stimulatiion after SCI which is funded by the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (R01NS115877).

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