Training Program on Innovative Approaches to Spinal Cord Injury

脊髓损伤创新方法培训计划

• 批准号: 10205804
• 负责人: PETER W. BAAS
• 金额: $ 12.65万
• 依托单位: DREXEL UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2021-07-01 至 2026-06-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10205804
• 关键词: Spinal cord injury; Training Programs; innovation

PROJECT SUMMARY/ABSTRACT Spinal cord injury (SCI) is a devastating condition that affects about 250,000 Americans with 17,700 new cases annually costing upwards of $2 million each. There is very little that can be done to treat these patients that improves their prospects for even partial recovery or the amelioration of symptoms that negatively impact their quality of life. SCI research continues to advance, but bolder and more innovative breakthroughs are needed, if the efforts are to translate into therapies that improve symptoms, alleviate pain, and restore functionality. As highlighted by the NIH-hosted SCI-2020 meeting, a new generation of SCI researchers is desperately needed, one that is thoroughly educated in all of the needed background and history of the field while also equipped to bring new technologies and insights into the field through strong collaborative interactions with scientists from other fields. Drexel University College of Medicine is home to the Marion Murray Spinal Cord Research Center, which has over three decades of history advancing the SCI field while simultaneously educating and training doctoral students to take the field forward. Within the Center is the Drexel SCI Training Program, which consists of well-funded and vibrant investigators who study SCI from many different perspectives, and mentor trainees in many different approaches. These include engineering, electrophysiology, cell transplantation, rehabilitation and others. The center has extensive multidisciplinary collaborations with Drexel investigators from other fields, many of whom are involved in the SCI Training Program. The Center is based within the Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy, with the students affiliated with the Neuroscience Graduate Program. SCI students are exposed to a multitude of training experiences, including but not limited to what the Neuroscience Graduate Program offers, with flexibility that welcomes students from other graduate programs to transfer into the program in order to conduct SCI-relevant research. The program has existed for over thirty years, with consistent success of the students securing F31 funding to fund their senior years, and then achieving success in their careers after completing the program. T32 funding for the program will enable expansion of the research and the number of trainees, thus improving the prospects of SCI patients, for whom treatments have remained elusive for too long.

项目摘要/摘要 脊髓损伤（SCI）是一种毁灭性的状况，影响约25万名美国人，有17,700例新病例 每年每年耗资200万美元。对待这些患者几乎无法做到 改善他们的前景，即使是部分康复或改善症状，从而对其进行负面影响 生活质量。 SCI研究继续前进，但需要更大胆，更具创新性的突破 努力是转化为改善症状，减轻疼痛和恢复功能的疗法。作为 在NIH主持的SCI-2020会议上，迫切需要新一代的SCI研究人员 一个在所有必要的背景和现场历史上都受过彻底教育的，同时也有能力 通过与来自来自 其他字段。 Drexel大学医学院是Marion Murray脊髓研究中心的所在地 在同时教育和培训的同时，有三十多年的历史发展了SCI领域 博士生将领域前进。中心内的是Drexel Sci培训计划，该计划包括 从许多不同的角度研究SCI的资金丰富且充满活力的研究人员，并导师导师 许多不同的方法。其中包括工程学，电生理学，细胞移植，康复和 其他的。该中心与来自其他领域的Drexel调查人员进行了广泛的多学科合作，许多 其中之一参与了SCI培训计划。该中心位于神经生物学系内 和解剖学，学生隶属于神经科学研究生课程。 SCI学生暴露 进行多种培训经验，包括但不限于神经科学研究生课程 优惠，具有灵活性，欢迎其他研究生课程的学生以秩序转移到该计划 进行与科幻有关的研究。该计划已经存在三十多年，并取得了一致的成功 获得F31资金以资助高年级的学生，然后在职业生涯中取得成功 完成程序。该计划的T32资金将实现研究的扩展和数量 学员，从而改善了SCI患者的前景，为了治疗太长时间了。