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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Good morning all,</span></p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Please let me know asap if this funding opportunity may be of interest to any of your faculty.
<b>The grant applications is due July 1, 2018 and award notification December 1, 2018.</b></span></p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">The Research Foundation, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, awards grants in the following categories: laboratory research in the basic sciences aimed at finding a cure for SCI/D; clinical and functional studies of
the medical, psychosocial and economic effects of SCI/D, and interventions to alleviate those effects; design and development of assistive technology for people with SCI/D, including improving the identification, selection and utilization of assistive technology
devices; and fellowships for postdoctoral scientists, clinicians, and engineers to encourage training and specialization in the field of spinal cord research.</span></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">The foundation is focused on funding projects grounded in basic laboratory science and the education of scientists working on breakthroughs directed at finding a cure for paralysis or its secondary medical
conditions, and technologies associated with SCI/D. These projects should be designed to find better treatments and cures for paralysis; support efforts to improve the quality of life of individuals with SCI/D until improved clinical treatments, technologies
or cures are discovered; and/or train postdoctoral fellow investigators and encourage them to specialize in the area of spinal cord research.</span></p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">The foundation supports one or two-year grants in four areas of emphasis at varying funding levels.</span></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">1) Basic Science: Grants of up to $150,000 over two years will be awarded in support of laboratory research in the basic sciences related to spinal cord injury or disease. Grants will be funded up to $75,000
for one year or up to $150,000 over two years</span></p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">2) Clinical Applications: Grants of up to $150,000 over two years will be awarded for clinical and functional studies of the medical, psychosocial, and economic effects of spinal cord injury or disease and/or
interventions proposed to alleviate these effects.</span></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Grants will be funded up to $75,000 for one year or up to $150,000 over two years.</span></p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">3) Design and Development: Grants of up to $150,000 over two years will be awarded for the design and development of new or improved rehabilitative and assistive devices that improve function for individuals
with spinal cord injury or disease.</span></p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">4) Postdoctoral Fellowships: Fellowship grants of up to $100,000 over two years will be awarded to postdoctoral students in basic science, clinical applications, or design and development intended to encourage
training and specialization in the field of spinal cord research.</span></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Eligible applicant institutions must be located in the United States or Canada. However, investigators and fellows are not required to be U.S. or Canadian citizens. All grant applicants must have a professional
degree: PhD or MD preferred, but a master’s will be acceptable under some circumstances.</span></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Senior fellows are encouraged to apply as principal investigators. Postdoctoral individuals are eligible to apply for fellowship support within four years of receiving a PhD or completing an MD residency.
Graduate students can participate in foundation-related research and be paid from a foundation award. Graduate students cannot apply for a foundation grant either as a fellow or as a principal investigator.</span></p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; color:black">F. Linelle Clark-Brown, Ph.D.</span></b></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; color:black">Assistant Director, Foundation Relations</span></p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; color:black">A Carnegie-designated Tier One Public Research University</span></p>
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