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[Christal]

With the ultimate goal of accelerating the discovery of drugs to regenerate or protect nerves after spinal cord injury, Miller School researchers have received a $2.5 million grant to develop a novel database to enable neuroscientists to search the voluminous and growing number of studies related to nervous system repair, and link relevant data from those studies to other resources.
“Right now there is no simple way, short of spending years reading papers, to find genes that have been linked to nerve regeneration, which is the goal of spinal cord and nervous system research,” said the NIH grant’s principal investigator, Vance Lemmon, Ph.D., professor of neurological surgery, the Walter G. Ross Distinguished Chair in Developmental Neuroscience and member of The Miami Project to Cure Paralysis research faculty. “There are just too many studies for investigators to keep up with, so we need ways to allow them to search the literature much more efficiently and find information relevant to spinal cord injury. That’s what we propose to do.” (continued...) http://spinalcordinj...y.blogspot.com/

Edited by Christal, 16 July 2012 - 10:02 PM.