Bioengineering Approaches for Brain and Spinal Cord Injuries

Dear Colleagues,

Bioengineering approaches to understanding brain and spinal cord injury are critical to advancing the underlying injury mechanisms and investigating promising therapeutic approaches.

Despite advancements in fundamental research, no clinical trials have proven to be effective in the treatment of traumatic brain and spinal cord injuries. This has placed further emphasis on investigating and employing new bioengineering approaches that further our understanding of the underlying injury mechanisms and can help guide exploratory interventional strategies in clinically relevant trauma models.

This Special Issue aims to offer a summary of ongoing efforts that aim to provide a better understanding of traumatic brain and spinal cord injury while utilizing various novel bioengineering approaches and tools. The reported outcomes aim to open up new perspectives in bench-to-bedside research and can guide the current care of those who have sustained brain or spinal cord injuries.

In this Special Issue, we invite manuscripts that focus on various bioengineering approaches that are system-based, technique-based, tool-based, and others and offer molecular/pathobiological processes that operate in various clinically relevant models of traumatic brain and spinal cord injuries. We also encourage the submission of reports on molecular, proteomic, metabolomic, and imaging markers of traumatically evoked brain and spinal cord injury, as well as studies of therapeutic interventions where target engagement is based on well-defined pathobiological processes with morphological and functional endpoints of translational relevance.

Dr. Anita Singh
Guest Editor

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