Spaulding Rehabilitation Awards Grant Funding to Two Studies Aimed at Finding Effective Treatments for Disorders of Consciousness
The Innovative Treatments in Disorders of Consciousness (ITDC) program provided two $400,000 grants to researchers at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Baylor College of Medicine to spur cutting-edge research and improve treatment options for people with traumatic brain injuries (TBIs) who experience disorders of consciousness like coma.
Spaulding Rehabilitation, a member of the Mass General Brigham healthcare system, has awarded two traumatic brain injury researchers $400,000 each to support their bold new studies that seek to better understand the mechanisms underlying disorders of consciousness, and identify effective treatments for them. The grants are the first to be awarded by Spaulding’s recently launched Innovative Treatments in Disorders of Consciousness (ITDC) program, in collaboration with the Curing Coma Campaign of the Neurocritical Care Society. The ITDC is a philanthropy-funded initiative that was created to provide seed grant funding for pilot projects aimed at advancing disruptive ideas in treating persons with disorders of consciousness.
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