Description
The DOD Spinal Cord Injury Research Program (SCIRP) is soliciting applications for the Translational Research Award (TRA) to support translational research that will accelerate the movement of promising ideas in spinal cord injury (SCI) research into clinical applications. The ultimate goal of translational research is to move an observation forward into clinical application and accelerate the clinical introduction of health care products, technologies, or practice guidelines.
Some key focus areas for this award include:
* Preserving and protecting spinal cord tissue at time of injury for improved neurologic outcomes
* Identifying and validating biomarkers for diagnosis, prognosis, and evaluation of treatment efficacies
* Developing, testing, and validating promising interventions to address bowel, genitourinary, neuropathic pain, cardiopulmonary or autonomic dysfunction across the life span of people with SCI
* Investigating psychosocial issues relevant to people with SCI, their families, and/or their care partners across the life span
* Rehabilitation and regeneration – maximizing the function of the residual neural circuitry, including harnessing neuroplasticity and recovery to improve function after SCI