Dr. Hui Zhong is a senior researcher and Assistant Director of the Broccoli Impossible to Possible Laboratory at the Rancho Research Institute, Rancho Los Amigos National Rehabilitation Center. For more than 30 years, she has been an integral contributor to Dr. Reggie Edgerton’s pioneering research in spinal cord neuromodulation. With extensive expertise in experimental surgery and neurophysiology, Dr. Zhong has been central to developing and refining advanced surgical techniques for chronic implantation of spinal and brain electrodes, microelectrode arrays, and EMG recording systems across multiple animal models. Her technical and scientific contributions have been critical to studies demonstrating how electrical spinal cord stimulation can restore function following spinal cord injury.

In recent years, Dr. Zhong’s research has focused on non-invasive spinal neuromodulation and activity-based training to restore motor, bladder, bowel, sexual, and cardiovascular functions in individuals with spinal cord injury and to improve multifunction in children with cerebral palsy. Her translational work has shown that targeted spinal stimulation can reorganize neural networks to regain lost function, leading to several human clinical applications. Dr. Zhong is the primary or co-author of more than 100 peer-reviewed publications and continues to advance the use of transcutaneous spinal stimulation as a therapeutic strategy across neurological conditions.