Spinal Cord Injury Repair Research
Latest pioneering research projects supported by the Roman Reed Spinal Cord Injury Research Act of California.

Presented at the 8TH Roman Reed Research Meeting / Neural Regeneration Consortium

Use of a Viral Vector Approach to Delete PTEN in the Motor Cortex and Promote Axon Regeneration after Spinal Cord Injury Oswald Steward, Ph.D., UC Irvine Director of the Roman Reed Spinal Cord Injury Research Fund and Core Laboratory Director & Professor, Reeve-Irvine Research Center; Professor, Departments of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Neurobiology and Behavior and Neurosurgery

Novel Quantitative and Functional Outcome Measures for Thoracic Spinal Cord Function after Traumatic Spinal Cord Injury Suzy Kim, M.D., UC Irvine Medical Director, Spinal Cord Injury Program; Assistant Clinical Professor Departments of Orthopaedic Surgery & Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation; Scientific Liaison, Reeve-Irvine Research Center

Development of an Electronic Bridge over the Lesion between Fore and Hind-limbs to Facilitate Quadrupedal Stepping after a Complete Spinal Cord Transection V. Reggie Edgerton, Ph.D., UCLA Professor, Departments of Neurobiology, Physiological Science and the Brain Research Institute

WNT Signaling in Central Nervous System Regeneration Yimin Zou, Ph.D., UCSD Associate Professor, Division of Biological Sciences, Section of Neurobiology Edmund Hollis II, Ph.D., Zou Lab post-doctoral fellow

The Effect of HBOT on Acute Spinal Cord Injury & Disorders Rehabilitation Outcome Sophia Chun, M.D., VA Long Beach; UC Irvine Chief, Spinal Cord Injury Center, Veterans Affairs, Long Beach Healthcare System, CA; Asst. Clinical Professor, Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, UCI

UC Primate Consortium: Axonal Plasticity and Regeneration Mark Tuszynski, M.D., Ph.D., UCSD Director & Professor, Center for Neural Repair, Department of Neurosciences (Pictured left) Ephron Rosenzweig, Ph.D. Asst. Project Scientist, Center for Neural Repair, Department of Neurosciences (Pictured right)

Brain Computer Interface (BCI) Controlled Walking Simulator Zoran Nenadic, D.Sc., UC Irvine Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (Pictured) Luis Chui, M.D., UC Irvine, VA Long Beach Health Sciences Clinical Professor of Neurology, UC Irvine MDA/ALS and Neuromuscular Center; Attending Physician, director of Outpatient Neurology and neuromuscular clinics. Long Beach Veterans Affairs Medical Center. An Do, M.D., UC Irvine Resident Physician in Neurology, UC Irvine Medical Center

Engineering the Corticospinal Tract as a High-Throughput Model to Study Spinal Cord Injury Lawrence Recht, M.D., Stanford University Professor of Neurology, Stanford University School of Medicine (Pictured) James Weimann, Ph.D., Stanford University Senior Research Scientist, Department of Neurology

An Inducible Receptor Tyrosine Kinase for Axonal Regeneration Armin Blesch, Ph.D., UCSD Associate Professor, Department of Neurosciences, Center for Neural Repair

UCLA scientists restore walking after spinal cord injury
Study shows nervous system can reorganize itself, use new pathways to issue commands to move.
The UCLA study was supported by grants from the National Institute of Neurological Disease and Stroke, the Adelson Medical Foundation, the Roman Reed Spinal Cord Injury Research Fund of California and the Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation.

UCSF Study Finds Nerve Regeneration Is Possible In Spinal Cord Injuries
A team of scientists at UCSF has made a critical discovery that may help in the development of techniques to promote functional recovery after a spinal cord injury.
Study co-authors include first-author Simona Neumann, PhD, and Kate Skinner, MD, both of UCSF. The research was funded by the Roman Reed Spinal Cord Injury Research Fund of California and the National Institutes of Health.

Blocking immune response to spinal cord injury can improve recovery
People who suffer spinal cord injuries may have a greater chance of recovery if treated with drugs that block the body's own immune response to the initial trauma, researchers from the Reeve-Irvine Research Center at UC Irvine have found.
The study was supported by the Roman Reed Spinal Cord Injury Research Fund of California, Research for the Cures and individual donations to the Reeve-Irvine Research Center.

Update on Spinal Cord Injury Regeneration Research Mark Tuszynski, M.D., Ph.D. Director, Center for Neural Repair University of California, San Diego
This article will review recent research in the field of spinal cord injury regeneration, and will try to provide a realistic assessment of how and when some of this research may find its way to human clinical trials.
The California legislature passed the Roman-Reed Bill in the year 2000. The Roman-Reed bill provided funding of $1 million per year for spinal cord research in California .