NEWS
August 31, 2010
FOLLOW-UP TO SSPF's DAY AT THE RACES EVENT, CHICAGOLAND SPEEDWAY
by Sahar Hassani, Shriners - reprinted with permission
“I love being at the race track,” smiled Mary Boswell, a patient at Shriners Hospitals for Children-Chicago.
August 25, 2010
DAY AT THE RACES INFINEON RACEWAY
A V.I.P Experience from Beginning to End
Our Day at the Races event at Infineon Raceway in Sonoma, CA on Saturday, August 21 started at the top - literally.
August 15, 2010
SAM SCHMIDT PARALYSIS FOUNDATION ENHANCING QUALITY OF LIFE
Notes of Appreciation from Two Recent Quality of Life Grant Recipient Organizations
The Sam Schmidt Paralysis Fouundation is committed to curing paralysis. Until that day comes, the Foundation supports organizations that benefit the disabled.
NEWS
¦ December 13, 2009
RESEARCH GRANT AWARDED FOR STUDY ON AXON REGENERATION
SSPF/ASIA Grant Given to Mousumi Ghosh, PhD
The Sam Schmidt Paralysis Foundation in partnership with the American Spinal Injury Association (ASIA) Sell Research Fund presented the first inaugural “Young Investigator Award” to Mousumi Ghosh, Ph.D. of the University of Miami, on September 25, 2009. The $15,000 award is designed to provide funding to a post doctoral researcher whose work has contributed substantially to the field of spinal cord injury medicine.
Ghosh’s project entitled, “Addressing the Technical Limitations of Studying Axonal Regeneration in a Clinical-Relevant Contusive Spinal Cord Injury Model through Ex Vivo 3D Ultramicroscopy” focused on the use of three dimensional microscopy, a new state-of-the-art imaging method, for assessing the changes that occur during axon regeneration. Previous equipment was only two dimensional which didn’t allow it to be known if axons had regenerated from injury, or whether they had been spared, or were the result of sprouting. The project answers the following questions: Which axons are injured and which ones are spared? What effect do Schwann cells implanted into the injured spinal cord have? What impact will this method have as a research tool for the SCI community in the future?
“We are extremely excited to support this award in its inception,” said Ida Cahill, President of the Sam Schmidt Paralysis Foundation. “The invaluable research that these individuals engage in brings us one step closer to finding a cure for paralysis.”
A native of India, Dr. Mousumi Ghosh received her undergraduate degree from the University of Poona in Pune, India and graduate education from the University of Calcutta in Kolkata, India. Between 1995 and the present, she was a research associate in biochemistry at the University of Georgia, a postdoctoral fellow in biochemistry at West Virginia University, a postdoctoral fellow in pharmacology and physiology at the University of Rochester. She was nominated by Dr. Damien Pearse, her mentor at the University of Miami where she currently a postdoctoral associate.
The Sam Schmidt Paralysis Foundation has committed to support the award for a minimum of five years. Funding provided by the foundation is being matched by the ASIA Sell Research Fund. Nominations are accepted from ASIA members only, to insure the mission of the association is reflected in the work of the nominees.
For more information on the award or study please contact: American Spinal Injury Association at ASIA_Office@shepherd.org.