CRF Research: One Goal, Many Approaches The Christopher Reeve Foundation is committed to finding treatments and cures for spinal cord injuries. To achieve this goal the Foundation funds some of the most brilliant minds in neuroscience, researchers who are poised to deliver the answers that will change the lives of spinal cord injured people worldwide. CRF has developed several exciting research approaches in basic science as well as the clinic that work together to speed progress towards treatments and cures. The CRF Individual Research Grants Program, CRF International Research Consortium on Spinal Cord Injury and the Core Pilot Program support basic research, the essential knowledge that is needed to develop effective therapies. The Individual Research Grants program identifies and invests in specific, promising scientific opportunities, while the CRF International Research Consortium is a scientific collaboration of some of the world’s top neuroscientists. The Core Pilot Program allows researchers in other scientific fields to dip their toes in the water of spinal cord research and see if, for example, a promising approach in Alzheimer's disease might work in spinal cord injury. Accelerating the movement of promising treatments from the laboratory to the clinic is the goal of the CRF North American Clinical Trials Network, and the NeuroRecovery Network. The Translational Research Fund advances discoveries that are on the cusp of human testing, while the Clinical Trials Network aims to put in place the scientific infrastructure and protocols that will help to make clinical trials of SCI treatments a successful reality. The NeuroRecovery Network is a program to develop specialized centers offering activity-based rehabilitation treatments to people living with spinal cord injury and certain other neurological disorders, accelerating interventions to the American public. Together, these programs have been designed to move forward treatments and cures for spinal cord injury by providing answers to scientific questions and translating those answers into clinical solutions. For more information on our research, click the links below: |