Professor Li Cai has been awarded a 3-year, $600K NJ Commission on Spinal Cord Research grant entitled: "No-coding DNA sequence in oligodendrocyte development". The goal of this grant is to determine the role of regulatory DNA sequences and their interacting protein factors during oligodendrocyte-lineage development as future potential therapeutic targets for spinal cord injury and other neurological diseases that involved oligodendrocyte function. The grant will run from June 15, 2010 through June 30, 2013.