More than 25 years ago, Mission Connect was creat-ed to generate innovative ideas, principles, and theo-ries in spinal cord injury (SCI) research and, soon thereafter, traumatic brain injury (TBI) research too. The founders knew that to develop treatments to preserve and restore neurological function following injury, basic research was an essential starting point. Mission Connect set forth to build the bedrock of fundamental knowledge needed to advance neuro-trauma science and medicine.

Each year since 1998, Mission Connect has issued a call for proposals seeking the most robust, original, and well-designed research projects. The strong the-oretical foundation on which many translational and clinical studies have launched is the knowledge gained through Mission Connect’s early basic research. Today, all levels of research are now repre-sented within Mission Connect. Keep reading