Today we welcome back our friend Jen Dulin from Texas A&M University. We interviewed Dr. Dulin not too long ago about the research funding analysis project that she did in partnership with us. If you haven't listened to that, you can check it out here. Because that interview wasn’t central to what Jen works on in her lab, we promised her we'd have her back to talk about the scientific work she’s been pursuing for the last 20 years or so. Jen is working on neural stem cells, neural progenitor cells, for the purpose of regeneration, to graft cells into...

Our movement is growing! Spinal Cord Injuries are getting cooler— well, the injury still sucks, but an awareness of how important functional recovery is to our quality of life continues to increase. This past February, U2FP kicked off our national campaign to increase federal funding for SCI research, and the energy was electric. We had over 100 individuals who...

This Rule of 17 has prevented our bill from making it to the senate floor for the last few years, and is once again keeping us from getting a full vote. It is frustrating because we already have enough votes among both Republicans and Democrats to pass our bill. This Rule is the only thing standing in our way. The news is not all bad though. There are several senators in the Republican Party who want to dismantle and retire the Rule of 17. But in order to do so, there needs to be a...