Training Program on Innovative Approaches to Spinal Cord Injury

脊髓损伤创新方法培训计划

• 批准号: 10441242
• 负责人: PETER W. BAAS
• 金额: $ 23.86万
• 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/10441242
• 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.

项目概要/摘要 脊髓损伤 (SCI) 是一种毁灭性的疾病，影响着约 250,000 名美国人，新增病例达 17,700 例 每项每年花费超过 200 万美元。对于治疗这些患者几乎无能为力 改善他们甚至部分康复或改善对他们产生负面影响的症状的前景 生活质量。 SCI研究不断进步，但还需要更大胆、更创新的突破 这些努力旨在转化为改善症状、减轻疼痛和恢复功能的疗法。作为 NIH 主办的 SCI-2020 会议强调，迫切需要新一代 SCI 研究人员， 一个受过该领域所有所需背景和历史的全面教育的人，同时也有能力 通过与来自不同国家的科学家的强有力的合作互动，将新技术和见解带入该领域 其他领域。德雷塞尔大学医学院是马里昂默里脊髓研究中心的所在地， 拥有三十多年推动 SCI 领域发展并同时进行教育和培训的历史 博士生推动该领域向前发展。该中心内设有 Drexel SCI 培训计划，其中包括 由资金雄厚、充满活力的研究人员组成，他们从许多不同的角度研究 SCI，并指导学员 许多不同的方法。这些包括工程学、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德雷塞尔研究人员进行了广泛的多学科合作，其中许多 其中参与了 SCI 培训计划。该中心位于神经生物学系 和解剖学，以及神经科学研究生项目的学生。 SCI学生被曝光 多种培训经验，包括但不限于神经科学研究生项目 提供灵活的机会，欢迎其他研究生课程的学生按顺序转入该课程 开展SCI相关研究。该计划已存在三十多年，并取得了持续成功 学生获得F31资助以资助他们的高年级生活，然后在毕业后取得职业成功 完成该计划。 T32 对该计划的资助将能够扩大研究范围和数量 培训学员，从而改善 SCI 患者的前景，长期以来，这些患者的治疗方法一直难以实现。