The UAB Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation has received a 5-year, $3.4 million grant renewal from the National Institute on Disability, Independent Living and Rehabilitation Research to continue the UAB National Spinal Cord Injury Statistical Center (NSCISC).

NSCISC supports and directs the collection, management and analysis of the world’s largest spinal cord injury database, which is the hub for data collected by a network of 14 federally sponsored and three subcontract-funded Spinal Cord Injury Model Systems located throughout the United States.

“To date, our database contains demographic and conditional data on over 35,000 people with spinal cord injury,” said NSCISC director Yu-Ying Chen, MD, PhD. “Outcomes from five decades’ database research have led to significant advances in medical rehabilitation and improved quality of life for people with spinal cord injury.”

UAB has held the NSCISC grant since first being funded in 1984.