The good news is already a few months old but we would like to take this opportunity to congratulate Patrick Freund. Together with Jonas Frisén from the Karolinska Institute, he was awarded with the IRP Schellenberg Research Prize 2020. The Prize is one of the highest research awards in the field of paraplegia and aimed at rewarding the scientist’s outstanding work at the Spinal Cord Injury Center, Balgrist University Hospital.