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Repair and Plasticity supports research in spinal cord injury, traumatic brain injury, recovery of function, plasticity of the nervous system, neural circuits that underlie specific behaviors, repair of the nervous system in injury and disease, stem cell biology, neural prosthesis, neuroengineering, and other means of repairing the nervous system in injury and disease.

• To understand mechanisms of plasticity in the healthy nervous system and explore implications for repair.
• To develop interventions to modify the course of injury and disease progression and improve functional outcome in individuals following injury to the nervous system.
• To understand the course of degeneration and repair following spinal cord injury and brain injury on timescales ranging from seconds to years.
• To understand the role of endogenous neurogenesis as well as stem and progenitor cell biology in the development and repair of the nervous system.
• To promote the development of neural prosthetic devices designed to restore function after neurological injury or disease.

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Repair and Plasticity Program Staff

Scientific Staff	Research Area
Naomi Kleitman, Ph.D. Program Director	Spinal Cord Injury, peripheral nerve injury, nervous system repair
Joseph Pancrazio, Ph.D. Program Director	Neural engineering, neuroprosthesis, neural repair technologies and biomaterials, neural processing and control
David Owens, Ph.D. Program Director	Stem cell biology, nervous system development
Ramona Hicks, Ph.D. Program Director	Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) and neonatal hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy (HIE)
Stephanie Fertig Program Analyst
Yolanda Vallejo, Ph.D. Program Analyst

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Repair and Plasticity, NINDS
Neuroscience Center, Room 2209, MSC9525
6001 Executive Boulevard
Bethesda, MD 20892-9525
Telephone: 301-496-1447
FAX: 301-480-1080