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Since 1998, SCIRB has supported neurological spinal cord injury scientific research projects from leading researchers within New York State to find a cure for spinal cord injuries. SCIRB has recommended approximately $170 million in research awards through 2025 to some of New York State's finest research teams. Research listed in the table below is a result of this funding.

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Organization	Investigator(s)	Link/PubMed ID#	Publication/Abstract Title
Feinstein Institute for Medical Research	Bouton, Chad	42463883	A neuroprosthesis for restoring hand movement and sensation in a person with complete tetraplegia
Albany Research Institute	Wolpaw, Jonathan	41699464	Neurorehabilitation in the 21st Century: New Science, New Strategies, New Expectations
Albany Research Institute	Wolpaw, Jonathan	40549633	Spinal reflexes: a potential target for treating hemiparetic gait.
CUNY Staten Island	Knikou, Maria and Sayed Ahmad, Abdullah	42535069	Transspinal stimulation preceding step training reorganizes spinal locomotor circuits in human spinal cord injury: a randomized sham-controlled clinical trial
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai	Zou, Hongyan	41922778	AhR inhibition promotes axon regeneration via a stress-growth switch
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai	Zou, Hongyan	42030397	Directional guidance to orient Schwann cell alignment in nerve regeneration requires Plexin-B1
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai	Zou, Hongyan	42394187	Releasing the neuronal brake: Inhibiting AhR to enhance axon regeneration
Albany Research Institute	Gupta, Disha	SSRN.com	TinZr: A Compact Wireless ESP32-C3 Platform for Multi-modal Physiological Data Acquisition
Albany Research Institute	Gupta, Disha	42155467	A portable closed-loop platform enabling cortical evoked potential operant conditioning: system development and validation of target intensity estimation
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai	Havton, Leif	41934962	Recurrent Cystolithiasis with Urethral Obstruction in a Rhesus Macaque (Macaca mulatta) after a Bilateral S1 Ventral Root Avulsion Injury.
CUNY Staten Island	Knikou, Maria and Sayed Ahmad, Abdullah	41940294	Transspinal direct current stimulation as targeted therapy to increase motor neuron output and restore inhibition in human spinal cord injury
Columbia University	Agrawal, Sunil	ieee.org	Postural Control Training with Forces Applied on the Trunk and Pelvis Using a Robotic Upright Stand Trainer (RobUST)
Columbia University	Agrawal, Sunil	nature.org	Robotic trunk perturbationmagnitude affects standing postural responses in individuals with motor complete spinal cord injury receiving epidural stimulation
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute	Palermo, Edmund	41359006	Polymerized Pro-Estrogen Miconeedles via Two Photon Polymerizaton
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute	Palermo, Edmund	41542440	Epidural thin Film Implants of Polymrized Curcumin Downregulate Inflammatory Marker and Improve Functional Recovery After Spinal Cord Injury in Mice
Columbia University	Agrawal, Sunil	39246648	Design and Validation of a Novel Robotic Neck Brace for Cervical Traction
The Research Foundation for Downstate Health Sciences University	Dura-Bernal, Salvador	https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5525785	Corticospinal Neuron Subpopulations with Opposing Dynamics Converge to Shape Spinal Interneuron Computations
The Research Foundation for Downstate Health Sciences University	Dura-Bernal, Salvador	https://www.abstractsonline.com/pp8/#!/21171/presentation/28029	Poster PSTR027.13/M14 - Motor cortex multiscale mechanistic model tuned to reproduce experimentally-recorded behavioral neural manifold derived from CEBRA
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai	Zou, Hongyan	40566742	Generation of Plexin-B1 Conditional Knockout Mouse With CRISPR/Cas9 Technology
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai	Zou, Hongyan	39747004	Invasion of glioma cells through confined space requires membrane tension regulation and mechano-electrical coupling via Plexin-B2
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai	Zou, Hongyan	41253783	Plexin-B1 safeguards astrocyte agility and glial alignment to facilitate wound corralling and axon pathfinding in mouse spinal cord injury model
Albany Research Institute	Gupta, Disha and Wolpaw, Jonathan	41439390	Methodological optimization for eliciting robust median nerve somatosensory evoked potentials for realtime single trial applications
Albany Research Institute	Gupta, Disha	41542597	A portable cortical evoked potential operant conditioning system (C-EPOCS): System development
Feinstein Institute for Medical Research	Bloom, Ona	41189508	Toward convergence in spinal cord injury therapies: neuromodulation, pharmacology, imaging, and rehabilitation
Albany Research Institute	Wolpaw, Jonathan	39834745	SyncGenie: A programmable event synchronization device for neuroscience research
CUNY Staten Island	Knikou, Maria	41342931	Cervical and thoracolumbar transspinal stimulation at 0.3 Hz and 30 Hz facilitates neuronal excitability in healthy humans: a randomized cross-over study.
Winifred Masterson Burke Medical Research Institute	Hollis, Edmund	41061042	Deletion of murine Sarm1 results in a microenvironment that delays peripheral nerve regeneration after injury
The Feinstein Institutes For Medical Research	Bouton, Chad	https://medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.19.25330198v1.full-text	Restoring Cortically Mediated Movement and Sensation in Complete Tetraplegia.
The Feinstein Institutes For Medical Research	Bouton, Chad	https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.21.25336267v1	Cortically Interfaced Human Avatar Enables Remote Volitional Grasp and Shared Discriminative Touch.
Albany Research Institute	Gupta, Disha	40834866	Extracting robust single-trial somatosensory evoked potentials for non-invasive brain computer interfaces
Albany Research Institute	Gupta, Disha	40101361	Frequency dependence of cortical somatosensory evoked response to peripheral nerve stimulation with controlled afferent excitation
Albany Research Institute	Gupta, Disha and Wolpaw, Jonathan	40974412	Soleus H-reflex size versus stimulation rate in the presence of background muscle activity: a methodological study
Albany Research Institute	Gupta, Disha	40527334	Artifact-reference multivariate backward regression (ARMBR): a novel method for EEG blink artifact removal with minimal data requirements
University of Rochester	Berk, Bradford	40429643	PDE₁₀A Inhibition Reduces NLRP₃ Activation and Pyroptosis in Sepsis and Nerve Injury
University of Rochester	Berk, Bradford	39882237	Spinal cord injury enhances lung inflammation and exacerbates immune response following exposure to LPS
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute	Palermo, Edmund	39793199	Poly(curcumin-co-poly(ethylene glycol)) films provide neuroprotection following reactive oxygen species insult in vitro
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute	Palermo, Edmund and Gilbert, Ryan	39346563	Pharmacology of boldine: Summary of the field and update on recent advances
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute	Gilbert, Ryan	https://www.mdpi.com/2674-0583/2/2/10	Construction of an Elastin-like Polypeptide Gene in a High Copy Number Plasmid Using a Modified Method of Recursive Directional Ligation
Columbia University	Agrawal, Sunil	38135989	Training Postural Balance Control with Pelvic Force Field at the Boundary of Stability
Columbia University	Agrawal, Sunil	38486863	The effect of transcutaneous spinal cord stimulation on the balance and neurophysiological characteristics of young healthy adults
Columbia University	Agrawal, Sunil	39124576	Effects of Robotic Postural Stand Training with Epidural Stimulation on Sitting Postural Control in Individuals with Spinal Cord Injury: A Pilot Study
City University of New York, City College	Martin, John H.	40027669	Hyperreflexia after corticospinal tract lesion reflects 1A afferent circuit changes not increased KCC2 hyperexcitability
City University of New York, City College	Martin, John H.	40060631	Activity Protects Spinal Premotor Interneurons from Microglial Phagocytosis and Transneuronal Degeneration After Corticospinal Injury
Bronx Veterans Medical Research Foundation, Inc.	Harel, Noam Y.	39040654	Hierarchical Bayesian estimation of motor-evoked potential recruitment curves yields accurate and robust estimates
Bronx Veterans Medical Research Foundation, Inc.	Harel, Noam Y.	40048825	Motor activity in gamma and high gamma bands recorded with a Stentrode from the human motor cortex in two people with ALS.
Bronx Veterans Medical Research Foundation, Inc.	Harel, Noam Y.	40313296	Timing-dependent synergies between noninvasive motor cortex and spinal cord stimulation in chronic cervical spinal cord injury.
Winifred Masterson Burke Medical Research Institute	Hollis, Edmund	38496662	Sarm1 is not necessary for activation of neuron-intrinsic growth programs yet required for the Schwann cell repair response and peripheral nerve regeneration
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai	Zou, Hongyan	38802590	Regulation of cell distancing in peri-plaque glial nets by Plexin-B1 affects glial activation and amyloid compaction in Alzheimer’s disease
Bronx Veterans Medical Research Foundation, Inc.	Harel, Noam Y.	38156073	Transcutaneous Spinal Cord Stimulation to Stabilize Seated Systolic Blood Pressure in Persons With Chronic Spinal Cord Injury: Protocol Development
Bronx Veterans Medical Research Foundation, Inc.	Harel, Noam Y.	37865833	Remote Ischemic conditioning as an emerging tool to improve corticospinal transmission in individuals with chronic spinal cord injury
Bronx Veterans Medical Research Foundation, Inc.	Harel, Noam Y.	37645795	Timing dependent synergies between motor cortex and posterior spinal stimulation in humans
City University of NY School of Medicine; RF CUNY	Martin, John H.	39536089	Molecular signaling predicts corticospinal axon growth state and muscle response plasticity induced by neuromodulation
City University of New York, College of Staten Island	Knikou, Maria	36416443	Physiological effects of cathodal electrode configuration for transspinal stimulation in humans
Columbia University	Agrawal, Sunil	9925527	Kinematic Validation of a Robotic Exoskeleton for Assisting Seated Pelvic Movements by Wheelchair Users with Trunk Impairments
Stony Brook Medicine	Puopolo, Michelino	32839232	Contribution of CaV3.2 calcium channels drive nociceptors’ hyperexcitability and chronic neuropathic pain following spinal cord injury in mice
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai	Cortes, Mar	S1094-7159(22)01133-3	PO186 / #872 Short term reduction of chronic neuropathic pain after high-frequency repetitive transcranial magetic stimulation (RTMS)
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai	Cortes, Mar	34501513	Pain reduction after short exposure to virtual reality environments in people with spinal cord injury
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai	Cortes, Mar	39246648	Design and Validation of a Novel Robotic Neck Brace for Cervical Traction
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai	Iyengar, Srinivas Ravi	37799971	A spatially specified system pharmacology therapy for axonal recovery after injury
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai	Iyengar, Srinivas Ravi	37577656	Muscle-restricted Nox4 knockout partially corrects muscle contractility following spinal cord injury in mice
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai	Iyengar, Srinivas Ravi	37692100	Spinal Cord Injury regulates circular RNA expression in axons
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai	Iyengar, Srinivas Ravi	37830039	Memory discrimination is promoted by the expression of the transcription repressor WT1 in the dentate gyrus
Columbia University	Agrawal, Sunil	10719943	Training Seated Postural Coordination in a Virtual Reality Reaching Game by Active Pelvic Guidance from a Robotic Exoskeleton
Columbia University	Agrawal, Sunil	39358017	Large-Scale Mechanistic Models of Brain Circuits with Biophysically and Morphologically Detailed Neurons
Columbia University	Agrawal, Sunil	39792574	The NeuroML ecosystem for standardized multi-scale modeling in neuroscience
Columbia University	Agrawal, Sunil	38895250	Mechanism of an Intrinsic Oscillation in Rat Geniculate Interneurons
Columbia University	Agrawal, Sunil	38486972	A mechanism for deviance detection and contextual routing in the thalamus: a review and theoretical proposalchanism for deviance
City University of New York, College of Staten Island	Knikou, Maria	38656134	Postsynaptic potentials of soleus motor neurons produced by transspinal stimulation: a human single-motor unit study
City University of New York, College of Staten Island	Knikou, Maria	38366214	Soleus H-reflex amplitude modulation during walking remains physiological during transspinal stimulation in humans
City University of New York, College of Staten Island	Knikou, Maria	38472313	Tapping into the human spinal locomotor centres with transspinal stimulation
City University of New York, College of Staten Island	Knikou, Maria	39034329	Interactions between arm and leg neuronal circuits following paired cervical and lumbosacral transspinal stimulation in healthy humans
City University of New York, College of Staten Island	Knikou, Maria	39841641	Optimal sigmoid function models for analysis of transspinal evoked potential recruitment curves recorded from different muscles
The Feinstein Institute for Medical Research	Bloom, Ona	37973021	Editorial: Update on current topics in spinal cord injury, trauma and rehabilitation
The Feinstein Institute for Medical Research	Bloom, Ona	21311	Antibody levels against SARS-CoV-2 in Veterans with chronic spinal cord injury: a cross sectional analysis
The Feinstein Institute for Medical Research	Bloom, Ona	40159475	Low intensity trans-spinal focused ultrasound reduces mechanical sensitivity and suppresses spinal microglia activation in rats with chronic constriction injury
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute	Gilbert, Ryan	https://www.mdpi.com/2674-0583/2/2/10	Construction of an Elastin-like Polypeptide Gene in a High Copy Number Plasmid Using a Modified Method of Recursive Directional Ligation
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute	Gilbert, Ryan	38935534	Delivery of TGFβ3 from magnetically responsive coaxial fibers reduces astrocyte reactivity in vitro
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute	Gilbert, Ryan	39071184	In vitro assessment of protamine toxicity with neural cells, its therapeutic potential to counter chondroitin sulfate mediated neuron inhibition, and its effects on reactive astrocytes
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute	Gilbert, Ryan	2023 BMES Annual Meeting	Investigating the neuroprotective potential of poly(pro-curcumin) polymers
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute	Gilbert, Ryan	39793199	Poly(pro-curcumin-co-poly(ethylene-glycol)) films provide neuroprotection following reactive oxygen species insult in vitro
Albany Research Institute, Inc., National Center for Adaptive Neurotechnologies	Wolpaw, Jonathan R.	37437593	Methods for automated delineation and assessment of EMG responses evoked by peripheral nerve stimulation in diagnostic and closed-loop therapeutic applications
Columbia University	Agrawal, Sunil	37155401	Effects of Boundary-Based Assist-as-Needed Force Field on Lower Limb Muscle Synergies During Standing Posture Training
Columbia University	Agrawal, Sunil	36176099	Redistributing Ground Reaction Forces During Squatting Using a Cable-Driven Robotic Device
Columbia University	Agrawal, Sunil	35532324	Robotic upright stand trainer (RobUST) and postural control in individuals with spinal cord injury
Columbia University	Agrawal, Sunil	38515546	Robotic Postural Training With Epidural Stimulation for the Recovery of Upright Postural Control in Individuals With Motor Complete Spinal Cord Injury: A Pilot Study
Columbia University	Agrawal, Sunil	38009201	Standing Reactive Postural Responses of Lower Limbs With and Without Self-Balance Assistance in Individuals With Spinal Cord Injury Receiving Epidural Stimulation