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Focus on Spinal Cord Injury Research

Spinal Cord Injury (SCI) can result from traumatic or non-traumatic insult,
condition or disease. SCI is classified by the spinal level of injury (paraplegia or
tetraplegia, for example) or severity of injury (from mild, incomplete to severe
and/or complete). The primary functional deficits include loss of sensation, motor
control, and autonomic regulation. Additional general information about SCI can
be found at the NINDS SCI Hope Through Research website.

The NINDS is the lead Institute at NIH supporting extramural SCI research.
NINDS funds basic and applied research on normal spinal cord structure and
function, mechanisms of injury, and secondary consequences of SCI. NINDS staff
also work closely with other NIH Institutes and Centers to support cross-
disciplinary SCI research including neuro-prosthesis development and
rehabilitation and effects of SCI on organ systems throughout the body. To
search a complete list of SCI projects funded by NIH please go to NIH
RePORTER. The NIH’s total investment in SCI can be found in categorical
spending.

For information on NINDS clinical trials please see the Clinical Research
section, or search ClinicalTrials.gov.

Funding Opportunities
A complete, searchable list of funding opportunities is available under Funding.
Please be aware that if you plan to request $500,000 or more in direct costs you
must contact the appropriate Program Director at least 6 weeks before
submission to obtain approval. For more information please see the eRA User
Guide ($500K requests).

Tools & Resources

NINDS Supported Research Resources

• NIH Common Data Element (CDE) Resource Portal; NINDS strongly

encourages investigators to use these common data elements (CDEs) in
their clinical research.
◦ NINDS CDEs for Spinal Cord Injury; The NINDS works with the
International Spinal Cord Society (ISCoS) to keep the NINDS CDEs
aligned with the ISCoS International Basic Data Sets
◦ A comprehensive list of CDEs across NIH can be found at the
National Library of Medicine (NLM)’s NIH CDE repository.
• Results of the 2016 "Spinal Cord Injury Preclinical Data Workshop:
Developing a FAIR Share Community" was published as a white
paper,"Developing a data sharing community for spinal cord injury
research" describing the impact of data sharing opportunities for preclinical
SCI researchers.

SCI Research Tools and Resources

• Spinal Cord Outcomes Partnership Endeavor (SCOPE): An affiliate of

the American Spinal Injury Association, the mission of SCOPE is to enhance
the development of clinical trial and clinical practice protocols for
therapeutic interventions for SCI. SCOPE sponsors quarterly updates of
active interventional SCI clinical trials and peer-reviewed manuscripts
focusing on issues of importance for SCI translational and clinical research.

Professional SCI Research Organizations: The following organizations

primarily serve SCI clinicians and researchers. For links to patient-centered
resources please see SCI Hope Through Research.

• American Congress of Rehbilitative Medicine (ACRM)

• American Spinal Injury Association (ASIA)
• National Neurotrauma Society (NNS)
• International Spinal Cord Injury Society (IsCOS)

Workshops and Symposia

Upcoming SCI related meetings with NINDS support and/or
representation:

North American Neuromodulation Society Annual Meeting, January 11-14,

2018 | Las Vegas, NV
American Spinal Injury Association 2017 Annual Scientific Meeting, May
2-4, 2018 | Rochester, NY

NeuroTrauma 2018, August 11-16, 2018 | Toronto, Canada

Recent SCI related meetings with NINDS support and/or representation:

CNS Neuroregeneration Strategies: Discovery and Implementation, March

15-17, 2017 | Houston, TX

American Spinal Injury Association 2017 Annual Scientific Meeting, April

26-29, 2017 | Albuquerque, NM

National Neurotrauma Society (NNS) Symposium, July 9 - 12,

2017 | Snowbird, UT

Working 2 Walk Science and Advocacy Symposium, October 13-14, 2017 |

Miami, FL

56th ISCoS (International Spinal Cord Society) Annual Scientific Meeting,

October 24-26, 2017 | Dublin, Ireland

FAIR-SCI Ahead Workshop SfN Satellite Symposia Meeting; November 10, 2017
| Washington, DC

Society for Neuroscience (SfN) Annual Meeting; November 11-15, 2017 |

Washington, DC

ISNR 2017, 17th International Symposium on Neural Regeneration,

November 29 - December 1, 2017 | Pacific Grove, CA

Previous NINDS Workshops and Conferences

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