Professors Martin Grumet, Martin Yarmush and Rene Schloss have been awarded a 3year, $500K+ grant from the New Jersey Commission on Spinal Cord Injury for a project entitled, "Minimally Invasive Lumbar Delivery of Encapsulated MSC for SCI". The overall goal of the project is to evaluate the therapeutic potential of encapsulated MSCs in a rat spinal cord injury model.