Specifications include, but are not limited to: Pursuant to Chapter 276 of the Acts of 2004, the Legislature of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts established a Spinal Cord Injury Trust Fund and authorized the commissioner of the Department of Public Health (DPH) to expend funds from the trust for the purpose of medical cure research services for spinal cord injured persons. The law was amended in November 2015 under Chapter 123 of the Acts of 2015 and the trust fund was renamed as the Thomas P. Kennedy Spinal Cord Injury Trust Fund. See M.G.L. c 10, § 59A. The purpose of this program is to promote spinal cord injury cure research that will lead to enhanced treatment and a cure for spinal cord injuries, as well as to facilitate the growth of a statewide Massachusetts cohort of scientists in the field of spinal cord injury cure research. DPH is looking to support investigators who have demonstrated outstanding research potential and a commitment to spinal cord injury cure research in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Funding may be used to further develop investigator’s research and careers and to generate knowledge about spinal cord injuries and cures. DPH will fund to two to three investigators to conduct research in the field of acute and chronic spinal cord injury cure research. Contracts will be awarded to and executed by the institutions sponsoring the investigators. Relevant research will be considered in biomedical areas that include, but are not limited to, tissue regeneration and repair, restoration of function, piloting or supplementing clinical trials, epidural or transcutaneous spinal cord stimulation, and physical rehabilitation interventions enhanced by other treatments. Projects including the use of progenitor cells, embryonic or adult stem cells, or NIH-approved lines of human embryonic stem cells are welcome. Responses are invited with or without pilot data. All responses must describe how proposed research will contribute to these objectives. The major objective of the Spinal Cord Injury Cure Research Program is to promote treatments to overcome the effects of chronic spinal cord injury. All responses must describe how proposed research will contribute to these objectives.