The Federal Budget that passed on Friday, March 14, 2025 cut 57% - approximately $850 million - out of the Congressionally Directed Medical Research Program (CDMRP). This is a Department of Defense agency that funds biomedical research programs, including spinal cord injury. Those cuts included the complete elimination of the Spinal Cord Injury Research Program (SCIRP)…or about $40 million this year. That’s $40 million GONE, right now!
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Contact your Congressional members today and ask them to restore funding to SCIRP
Spinal Cord Injury/Disease is already among the most under-funded, under researched conditions in existence. Yet is considered among the WORST conditions to live with by the WHO. This program (CDMRP SCIRP), run by the Department of Defense and responsible for medical research and development for the warfighter and US citizens, accounted for roughly 1/3 of the dollars that funded Spinal Cord Injury Research in the US.
And now it’s gone. So please: contact your Congressional members today and ask them to restore funding to SCIRP!
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Read SCIRP's Impact Report
When congress passed H.R. 1968, a Continuing Resolution funding bill, they decided that SCIRP was not worth the taxpayers dollar.
SCIRP was .005% of the Department of Defense budget. It was supporting ground-breaking research, moving science from the lab into the clinic. It was fast tracking research to help us breath on our own, mitigate unbearable nerve pain and regain independence. It was responsible for the development of field-deployable technologies to treat our soldiers after trauma.
This program was not partisan. It was practical. It was productive. And we do not have the luxury to sit idly by and loose what has been fought so hard for.
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Read articles from U2FP and other outlets on the impact of SCIRP and why these cuts must be reversed.
Last week we organized a meeting attended by leaders from The Craig H Neilsen Foundation, United Spinal, The Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation, The North American SCI Consortium, Paralyzed Veterans of America, Wings 4 Life and The Shepherd Center. We met to share information, strategize and mobilize our community to fight back. At the time, there was no formal path forward. Now there is an emerging strategy...
Andrew knows this program well and we discuss how the program worked, what made it so successful, what set it apart from other Federal research grant programs and the damaging fallout that will ensue if we can’t get it reinstated. We hope that you will share our sense of urgency on this matter, that you will contact your Congressional Representatives in the House and Senate. And we hope that this conversation
You may have heard, but spinal cord injury research just took a MAJOR blow and we need to do something about it, NOW. What Happened? On March 15th, The 119th Congress passed and POTUS signed into law a continuing resolution bill, H.R. 1968. This bill cut about $850 million dollars in medical research funding being conducted for veterans, with civilians benefiting as well. As part of the collateral damage, arguably the most effective Spinal Cord Injury Research program in the world was eliminated. The $40M program made up roughly 1/3 of the entire Federal allocation of funding toward SCI Research and there’s a good chance...
