The Gillian Reny Stepping Strong Center for Trauma Innovation announces a 2018 Stepping Strong Innovator Award with a specific focus to support research and innovation in the field of spinal column and cord injury in the areas of spinal cord, nerve damage and its associated recovery, and affiliated neuroscience complications that impact both civilian and military patients.

The Stepping Strong Center will fund a high-reward project by the best, most creative and collaborative physicians, bioengineers and bench top researchers in the Boston area. Multidisciplinary projects with collaborators at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital will receive enhanced consideration in this application process.

Stepping Strong expects to provide one grant of up to $100,000 in 2018.