WHAT ?
SILENCE Project investigate the hypothesis whether inferior and normal rehabilitation responders identified by recursive partitioning display distinct patterns of autoimmunity.
HOW ?
SILENCE project uses well-characterized spinal cord injury specimen banks from international prospective multicenter trials, tissue repositories, and experimental models of autoimmune disease.
WHO ?
SILENCE is an ambitious interdisciplinary research project conducted by a translational consortium of five international institutions, comprising expertise in immunology, proteomics, neuropathology, neurology, rehabilitative medicine, epidemiology, and paraplegiology.