NINDS Neuroscience Funding Announcements

Facilities of Research Excellence (FORE) in Spinal Cord Injury (SCI) - Replication Studies

Funding Contact(s): Laurie Leonard
Funding Categories: Repair and Plasticity

Brief Description:
This contract is to identify two NINDS "Facility of Research Excellence in Spinal Cord Injury" (FORE-SCI) sites to conduct research to replicate promising studies that could lead to new and effective treatments for SCI. The role of these two FORE-SCI centers will be to independently review and replicate novel treatments for SCI and to compare the efficacy of different treatments in a standardized environment with a minimum of variability in surgery, animal care, outcome evaluation and cellular analyses.

NIH Guide: RFP-NIH-NINDS-08-02
Release Date: 2008-01-08
Expiration Date: 2008-03-07