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Susan Howley,
Executive Vice President, Research, Reeve Foundation
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The Reeve Foundation is pleased to share our new Progress in Research with you.
Two articles document triumph in the face of personal adversity ("NextStep: Community Fitness") and scientific long odds ("Research Breakthrough"). Another examines a relatively unique hybrid in the spinal cord world: "The Physician-Scientist." "Measuring Outcomes" highlights a heretofore unrecognized complexity in translating findings from the research bench to the clinic: the reality that even though a therapy has a positive effect, the sensitive measures needed to detect small improvements don't yet exist. Three of the Reeve Foundation's individual grant program awardees are highlighted for their projects on unrelenting SCI central pain syndromes (Asaf Keller, PhD), a combinatorial approach to repair of chronic SCI (Soheila Karimi, PhD) and ways to activate certain interneurons and the locomotor network in the injured spinal cord to improve walking ability (Martyn Goulding, PhD).
Our lead article provides a window into the thinking of one of the Reeve Foundation's Vice Chairmen, Arnold Snider, who as chair of our Research Planning Committee is intimately involved with the strategic development of our research programs. His unique perspectives on the investment and biomedical fields have greatly informed his leadership at the Foundation.
We hope Progress in Research conveys the excitement all of us here have about state-of-the art in spinal cord research and prospects for the future. We couldn't possibly have come this far without the generous support of all our friends and we ask you to stay the course with us as we continue to push toward more and better treatments and cures for spinal cord injury.
Susan Howley
Executive Vice President, Research
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