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Conquer Paralysis Now (CPN) Challenge - Funding available for Paralysis Research

The aim of the CPN Challengehttps://www.omnicompete.com/cpnchallenge.html is to accelerate the development of treatments for spinal cord injury (SCI) in order to provide significant improvements in patients' quality of life. Stage I of the Challenge Program was launched in 2014 to provide seed funding to a wide range of non-traditional approaches, and Stage I grants will recur annually. A total of 12 grants, each at least $50,000, are available cross the six categories in each round of Stage I. In all six awards, we are looking for unconventional, novel and disruptive concepts that have the potential for functional recovery in chronic humans and animals.

The second round of Stage I grants is now open for applications. We're giving out 12 grants of at least $50,000 across 6 award categories for innovative and novel research related to Spinal Cord Injury (SCI) treatments. Part of a larger Challenge Program, these grants have a quick and straight forward application process, and we're particularly eager to hear from research(ers) in the following areas:

- New Investigators (recently hired SCI researchers or established researchers who recently started working on SCI)

- Collaborative Research (eg: nanotechnology and biochemistry)

- Cross-Over Research from adjacent scientific fields that can be applied to the field of SCI

- Translational Research from animal experiments towards human clinical trials

- Reaching & Grasping (research to help restore reaching and grasping function for human SCI patients)

- Out of the Box Ideas (risky, high potential research ideas)

- Sharable Data (The Trial & Error Prizehttp://conquerparalysisnow.org/RibbonLinks/TrialandError/Overview.aspx is looking for research that can be shared so that the SCI community can learn from each other and not duplicate experiments) The application deadline is January 21st 2016, and we welcome all interest and any questions. To view and enter the grants, please click herehttps://www.omnicompete.com/cpnchallenge.html. Kind regards, Michael Hanson Program Manager, Client Services InnoCentivehttp://www.innocentive.com/ Email: mhanson@innocentive.commailto:mhanson@innocentive.com Phone: +44 (0) 207 224 0110 Where the World Innovates