Model Systems Program (Spinal Cord Injury, Traumatic Brain Injury, Burn Injury)

National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research (NIDILRR), Administration for Community Living

Traditional Federal grant

Funds centres that deliver coordinated rehabilitation care and run longitudinal and multi-site collaborative research on recovery and long-term outcomes after spinal cord injury, traumatic brain injury or burn injury, feeding national longitudinal databases.

Indicative award

Amount not published (varies by call)No award amounts are published on the ACL programme page; each Model Systems notice states its own funding level.

Timing

Annual cycleAnnual cycle · Oct, Nov, Dec, Jan, Feb, Mar, AprNo specific published date recorded. This funder publishes a cycle rather than a date, and this database does not invent one.ACL advises monitoring Grants.gov between October and April, searching listing 93.433 with the keywords sci, tbi or burn.

Who can apply

Any faculty rank, Mid-career & senior, Practitioner

Eligibility

Institutions of higher education, nonprofit organizations and other organizations or agencies. In practice applicants must be able to operate or partner with a designated rehabilitation care system and contribute to the national data centre.

SSWR clusters

Topics

spinal cord injury · traumatic brain injury · burn injury · longitudinal outcomes research · knowledge translation

Apply at

https://acl.gov/programs/research-and-development/model-systems-program

This entry

Curated by the working group. Written 2026-08-07. Funder link last confirmed to resolve on 2026-09-25.

Amounts and dates on this page are indicative and are maintained by people rather than scraped. Funders change ceilings, windows and eligibility without notice; confirm all details at the source above before applying.

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Model Systems Program (Spinal Cord Injury, Traumatic Brain Injury, Burn Injury)

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