Description (from grant):
Stroke is the leading cause of combined death and severe disability in the United States. It is imperative that new treatments for stroke prevention, acute therapy, and recovery be efficiently developed. This application is to renew a large-scale regional clinical trial network to accelerate testing and validation of promising new stroke preventive, acute, and reparative therapies. It sustains the NIH NIH Los Angeles – Southern California Stroke Net Regional Coordinating Center (LASC Stroke Net RCC), coordinating 43 centers for NIH trials on stroke prevention, acute care, and recovery. Goals include 1) perform high quality NIH Stroke Net acute and prevention trials throughout Los Angeles and Orange Counties, Sacramento, and New Mexico; 2) perform high quality NIH Stroke Net recovery and rehabilitation trials throughout Los Angeles and Orange Counties, Sacramento, and New Mexico.