The Christopher Reeve Paralysis Foundation (CRPF) announced the results of its first research funding cycle of 2003, and an exceptional new grantee is from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine.

Since 1988, CRPF has invested nearly $300,000 in the laboratories of four investigators from Case
to further their work on spinal cord injury research. Only 15 outstanding neuroscientists were awarded funding in CRPF's first grant cycle of 2003, including Barbara Grimpe from the Case department of neuroscience.

"CRPF has proudly supported many of the world's most accomplished neuroscientists in the field of spinal cord research," said Reeve, CPRF's chairman of the board. "Case Western Reserve University has established itself as a focal point of some of the most exciting and promising of that research."

The award will assist Grimpe in continuing her work in the laboratory of Jerry Silver, professor of neurosciences. She is currently working to stimulate regeneration in spinal cord injury patients.

For a complete list of grantees and details on the research projects that are funded or for information on CRPF's Individual Research Grants, which are awarded twice yearly, go to: http://www.christopherreeve.org/research/researchmain.cfm.

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