About the MR3 Network

Medical rehabilitation involves basic and clinical studies in the domains of pathophysiology, impairment, functional limitation, disability, and societal interaction. Increasingly, research breakthroughs and potential therapeutic strategies are the results of integrating expertise from allied fields as well as building up a core understanding of rehabilitative mechanisms and clinical outcomes.

Access to technologies and approaches from allied fields is key to promoting multidisciplinary collaborations and developing research opportunities and enhancing the capability of medical rehabilitation investigators to understand mechanisms of functional recovery, develop therapeutic strategies, and improve the lives of people with disabilities.

The National Institutes of Health Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), which is home to the National Center for Medical Rehabilitation Research (NCMRR), in collaboration with the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH), the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB), the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD), the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS), and the National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR), supports the Medical Rehabilitation Research Resource Network (MR3 Network).

The MR3 Network comprises six grant-supported P2C resource centers around the United States.

• The Alliance for Regenerative Rehabilitation Research and Training (AR³T)
• The Center for Reliable Sensor Technology-Based Outcomes for Rehabilitation (RESTORE)
• The Center for Smart Use of Technology to Assess Real-world Outcomes (C-STAR)
• The Learning Health Systems Rehabilitation Research Network (LeaRRn)
• The National Center of Neuromodulation for Rehabilitation(NC NM4R)
• The National Pediatric Rehabilitation Resource Center (C-PROGRESS)

These centers provide infrastructure and access to expertise, technologies, and resources from allied fields in order to promote multidisciplinary collaborations, develop research opportunities and enhance the capability of medical rehabilitation investigators to understand mechanisms of functional recovery, develop therapeutic strategies, and improve the lives of people with disabilities.

MR3 Network opportunities include: