The funds will help advance projects under way in the laboratory of Bruce Ransom, professor and chair of neurology. Angus Brown, research assistant professor of neurology, is a collaborator in this work. The researchers study the basic mechanisms of axon impairment to better understand spinal cord injury.
Axons are the long extensions of nerve cells that make up nerve fibers.
The Eastern Paralyzed Veterans Association raises funds to improve the lives of people suffering from quadriplegia, paraplegia and other forms of paralysis. A representative from the association will visit Seattle in June to see some of the spinal cord injury research taking place at the UW and to visit the spinal cord injury treatment center at the Puget Sound Veterans Affairs Health Care System. The University of Washington School of Medicine Online News Service is copyright 1998-2000. All rights reserved.