Training Grant in Spinal Cord Injury (T32)

The NIH-funded T32 training program on Innovative Approaches to Spinal Cord Injury offers a rich and unique training environment building on the long and successful history of research in the Marion Murray Spinal Cord Research Center at Drexel.

The program provides rigorous interdisciplinary training for predoctoral students pursuing research related to spinal cord injury (SCI) and its associated mechanisms. The program brings together trainees and faculty whose research spans the biological processes underlying injury, neural dysfunction, repair, plasticity and recovery, with the goal of preparing the next generation of scientists to address fundamental and translational questions in SCI. Trainees conduct their dissertation research in laboratories with a strong connection to SCI while receiving a broader training experience that exposes them to complementary approaches, perspectives and areas of expertise across the SCI research community. Following selection of an SCI-related dissertation laboratory, two predoctoral trainees are appointed to the program each year and receive up to two years of T32 fellowship support.

Mission:

Train the next generation of scientists to advance discovery, repair and recovery after spinal cord injury.

The research being conducted will prepare students for research across a broad spectrum of multidisciplinary techniques and strategies, including:

Neural regeneration and plasticity
Neuroinflammation
Neural networks and computational neuroscience
Neural engineering
Rehabilitation and training
Stem cell biology and cellular repair
Gene therapy

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Training Grant in Spinal Cord Injury (T32)

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