Professor Francois Berthiaume, together with Professor Melitta Schachner from the W. M. Keck Center for Collaborative Neuroscience, and Dr. Suneel Kumar, a Research Associate in Dr. Berthiaume's laboratory, were awarded a 2-year, $200,000 award from the New Jersey Commission on Spinal Cord Research (NJCSCR) to develop new protein therapeutics to promote functional repair of the damaged spinal cord.