The First Step to Finding a Cure: The CPN Challenge Recognizing the devastating effects of a spinal cord injuries, the United States Senate has marked September as National Spinal Cord Injury Awareness Month. This month and beyond, Conquer Paralysis Now (CPN), a leading authority on spinal cord injury (SCI) research, continues its ongoing fight to…
ollowing the launch of the second round of the CPN Challenge, we interviewed Prof. Shawn Hochman from Emory University, who is a member of the CPN Science Advisory Council. He shared his thoughts aboutour 10 year Challenge Program and also gave some advice for solvers. Conquer Paralysis Now: Interview with SAC member Shawn Hochman …
On 25th November, InnoCentive went to the University of Cambridge in the UK, to host a discussion on the recently launched 2nd round of Conquer Paralysis Now grants. As he did at Kings College London in February, guest speaker and CPN Science Advisory Council member, Professor James Fawcett graced us with this presence. This time round he was imparting…
The Year in Review: SCI Research Breakthroughs in 2015 And as we cross the threshold into 2016, we are one step closer to our goal of finding a cure for paralysis in ten years. Moving full speed ahead towards that goal, we wanted to compile a brief retrospective. 2015 has been an incredible year for…
