The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City received a Spinal Cord Injury Model System grant from the National Institute of Disability, Independent Living and Rehabilitation Research.
Here are five takeaways:
1. The five-year grant totals $2.28 million.
2. Fourteen institutions across the nation received the grant.
3. Mount Sinai will use the grant to conduct independent and collaborative research, offering information to individuals with SCI as well as their family members, healthcare professional, and the public.
4. The institution will also offer a regional multidisciplinary system of care for New York patients with SCI; add longitudinal data to the SCI national database; lead a local research project testing a novel approach to clinical inpatient treatment; and contribute to three collaborative module research projects with other grant centers.
5. The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai is also a designated Traumatic Brain Injury Model System. This system is sponsored by the National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research, Administration for Community Living, HHS.