The Derby City Chapter of the National Spinal Cord Injury Association Network- Serving Kentuckiana.
Message From the President
Dear Members & Friends-
THIS MONTH’S MEETING
IS CANCELED.
March’s meeting is at Frazier Rehab Institute,
220 Abraham Flexner Way, Louisville, 10th floor
dining room, at 6:30 p.m. Refreshments provided.
- David Allgood
The following articles from the Internet –ed SPINAL CORD RESEARCH
MOVING FORWARD
IN 2008
By Ryan Watzel
Since it’s co-founding in 1985 by Dr. Barth A. Green and three families affected by spinal-cord injuries, The Miami Project to Cure Paralysis at the Miller School of Medicine has enjoyed a legacy of scientific and social developments.
In 2004, The Miami Project published a breakthrough article regarding dramatic improvement in animal models of spinal-cord injury, utilizing a combination of cells and drugs.
Now, they are trying to bring a treatment using Schwann Cells, or cells particular to the Peripheral nervous system that separate and insulate nerve cells, to clinical trial. This requires an FDA approved application and extensive process for approval, but could be a major advancement in spinal-cord injury research.
Scientific Director for the Miami Project Dr. W. Dalton Dietrich is working to coordinate faculty members with consultants from the FDA.
“Approval is being sought, and hopefully will be attained, from the FDA to begin phase one of trials and to begin clinical transformation,” says Maria Amador, director of education for The Miami Project. “The hope is to get approval by the end of 2008.”
One of the project’s major goals is to use neurobiological science on a fundamental level and to apply these
