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National Skeletal Muscle Research Center
Background
The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), through the National Center for Medical Rehabilitation Research (NCMRR), invited applications for grants to build research infrastructure by providing access to expertise, technologies, and resources from allied fields such as neurosciences, engineering, applied behavior, and the social sciences. Through this initiative, the National Skeletal Muscle Research Center (NSMRC) and five other National Centers were formed to provide rehabilitation scientists with the knowledge, quantitative tools, and funding opportunities necessary to conduct state-of-the-art basic and applied research involving skeletal muscle and rehabilitation.
The inauguration ceremony for the NSMRC was held on July 6, 2006 and featured US Congresswoman Susan Davis.
Description
The Center’s core areas of expertise are skeletal muscle biology, biomechanics, and imaging. Over the next five years, the center aims to facilitate rehabilitation science through educational opportunities, sabbatical opportunities, and small research grants. These opportunities will be available to researchers in any field, as our goal is to facilitate those already in the rehabilitation sciences and to encourage researchers in other fields to participate in rehabilitation directed projects.
Recent Conferences
Workshop on Multi-Scale Muscle Mechanics
Director
Core Directors
External Advisory Board
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Dr. V. Reggie Edgerton received his Ph.D. in Exercise Physiology from Michigan State University. He has been at the University of California, Los Angeles, since 1968 and is currently a professor in the in the Departments of Physiological Science and Neurobiology and a member of the Brain Research Institute. Dr. Edgerton’s laboratory focuses on how, and to what extent, the nervous system controls protein expression in skeletal muscle fibers as well as how the neural networks in the lumbar spinal cord of mammals, including humans, control stepping and how this stepping pattern becomes modified by chronically imposing specific motor tasks on the limbs after complete spinal cord injury. |
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V. Reggie Edgerton, PhD |
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Dr. Jan Fridén, M.D., Ph.D. is a professor of Hand Surgery at the Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Göteborg, Sweden. He has a Ph.D. in Muscle Anatomy and more than 20 years of research on muscle structure and function with a focus on experimental and clinical studies of reconstructive tendon transfer surgery. Professor Fridén is Chair of the Swedish National Unit for Reconstructive Upper Limb Surgery in Tetraplegia and he is Head of a muscle research laboratory at the Lundberg laboratory for musculo-skeletal research. |
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Dr. Jerome Stenehjem is a physiatrist and medical director of Sharp Rehabilitation Center, one of Southern California’s busiest and most comprehensive rehabilitation centers for chronic disabling conditions. Dr. Stenehjem holds a Master’s degree in bioengineering and medical doctorate degree from the University of Utah. He has managed patients with muscle weakness for over 20 years and has extensive clinical and research experience in the use of botulinum toxin, phenol intramuscular neurolysis, and the use of biofeedback and electrical stimulation as rehabilitation interventions. |
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Jerome Stenehjem, MD |
Contact Information
NSMRC
ATTN: Muscle Physiology Laboratory
VA Medical Center
3350 La Jolla Village Drive
San Diego, CA 92161
Phone: (858) 552-8585 x7016
Fax: (858) 552-4381
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