Project Grant W81XWH1510671

This Project Grant award from the Department of the Army Medical Command provides $3,940,561 to fund the "Breathing Low Oxygen to Enhance Spinal Stimulation Training and Functional Recovery in Persons with Chronic Spinal Cord Injury: The BO2ST Trial" project under the Military Medical Research and Development program (CFDA 12.420). The award period is from September 30, 2022 through September 29, 2026. The project aims to investigate the extent to which daily acute intermittent hypoxia...

This Project Grant award of $305,447, issued on September 2, 2024 by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (CFDA 93.865 - Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research), aims to identify predictive biomarkers for acute intermittent hypoxia-induced motor recovery in individuals with incomplete spinal cord injury. The research team from the University of Colorado will: 1) Validate the cellular mechanisms underlying hypoxia-induced plasticity in humans, using...

Federal Grant Award Summary The National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) awarded the University of Florida a Project Grant totaling $449,391 under the Extramural Research Programs in the Neurosciences and Neurological Disorders (CFDA 93.853) to conduct research on combinatorial respiratory rehabilitation approaches for cervical spinal cord injury (SCI) recovery. The award, effective June 1, 2025, through April 30, 2030, funds investigation into how therapeutic acute...

Federal Grant Award Summary The National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) awarded $470,293 to The Research Foundation For The State University of New York (SUNY at Binghamton) under the Extramural Research Programs in the Neurosciences and Neurological Disorders (CFDA 93.853) program, effective July 1, 2025, through June 30, 2027. This Project Grant funds research aimed at identifying and characterizing the electrophysiological features of spinal motor neurons during...

This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS), under the Extramural Research Programs in the Neurosciences and Neurological Disorders (CFDA 93.853) program, provides $411,941 to Drexel University to conduct research on identifying novel trunk reflex pathways and how they differ after neonatal versus adult spinal cord injury in animal models. The key objectives are to test the hypothesis that the newly discovered contralateral monosynaptic trunk...

This $424,875.00 Project Grant award from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) under the Extramural Research Programs in the Neurosciences and Neurological Disorders (CFDA 93.853) program will fund a comprehensive study of gene transcription patterns in diverse classes of neurons that connect the brain to the spinal cord after spinal cord injury in a mouse model. The research team at Marquette University will use single-cell sequencing technologies to profile...

This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS), under the Extramural Research Programs in the Neurosciences and Neurological Disorders (CFDA 93.853) program, provides $437,250 to the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) to conduct pooled in vivo screening of combination gene therapies for enhancing axonal regeneration after spinal cord injury (SCI). The key objectives are to 1) perform CRISPR screening to identify the most effective...

Federal Project Grant Award Summary Marquette University received a $569,695 Project Grant award on August 20, 2025, from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) under the Cardiovascular Diseases Research program (CFDA 93.837). The grant supports research titled "Mechanisms and Therapeutic Potential of Phrenic Proprioceptors After Spinal Cord Injury," with a performance period extending through May 31, 2030. The research addresses critical respiratory dysfunction...

Federal Grant Award Summary The Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) awarded Shirley Ryan AbilityLab a $2.86 million Project Grant (CFDA 93.865 – Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research) effective September 1, 2025, through August 31, 2028, to conduct research on paired stimulation plasticity for motor recovery in cervical spinal cord injury (SCI). The research project investigates two innovative neural stimulation...

This Project Grant award from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865) provides $543,172 to the University of Florida to investigate trunk control and coordination during walking in individuals with incomplete spinal cord injury (ISCI). The 2-year study aims to: 1) Quantify coordination of trunk movements during walking in ISCI compared to controls, and 2)...