Promoting
regeneration of the
central nervous system

THE CHALLENGE

Spinal cord injury

Spinal cord injury is a devastating neurological disorder caused by disruption of nerve fiber tracts and damage of nerve cells in the spinal cord. It affects people’s lives through loss of sensation and motor paralysis below the site of the injury, often resulting in paraplegia (legs, lower body) or tetraplegia (arms, legs, whole body). Functional recovery is often hindered by the limited capacity of the human central nervous system to self-repair nerve damage.