Newport Beach : Paralysis Association to Hold Board Meeting
Funding for research projects which may eventually free hundreds of thousands of Americans from wheelchairs will be under consideration today and Saturday at the Four Seasons Hotel when the American Paralysis Assn. holds its semiannual board of directors meeting.
Since 1982, when the organization was founded, more than $3.5 million in research contracts have been awarded, according to Robert W. Yant Jr., president of the Orange County chapter and a member of the national board.
Among the proposals under consideration is a project submitted by Dr. Howard Nornes of Colorado State University studying grafts of nerve tissue to the damaged spinal cords of injured rats.
Nornes was the first scientist in the world to perform such grafts, according to Yant. Also on the agenda is an update on California Senate Bill 1026, which would provide $3 million for spinal cord injury research in the state of California.
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