Research at CPA

Accelerating breakthroughs in prevention, interventions and cures for cerebral palsy

The Cerebral Palsy Alliance Research Institute was established in 2005.

Our vision is to enable the world’s best cerebral palsy experts to find ways to prevent and treat cerebral palsy, a condition affecting more than 17 million people worldwide.

Since being established, we’ve committed over $89 million in funding towards hundreds of ground-breaking cerebral palsy research projects through the Cerebral Palsy Alliance Research Foundation. Today, we are the world’s largest private funder of cerebral palsy research.

What is cerebral palsy?

Find out more about cerebral palsy.

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Our four research programs

Our research priorities, informed by people with cerebral palsy and their families, are;

Early Detection & Intervention

Detecting, diagnosing, and intervening early to make a lifetime of difference.

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Epidemiology

Ground-breaking research that unearths trends, prevalence and causes of CP.

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Technology

Pioneering tech & innovation to support inclusion for people with disabilities.

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Regeneration

Progressing stem cell clinical trials and exploring the frontier of new therapies.

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Help transform lives by supporting cerebral palsy research. Your donation brings hope and progress for babies, children and adults with cerebral palsy, and their families.

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Our history of breakthroughs stretches back almost twenty years.
Today, we are the world's largest research institute dedicated to cerebral palsy.

Four

of the world's top ten cerebral palsy experts work at our Research Institute

40%

The rate cerebral palsy has fallen in a generation - in part due to pioneering CPA research

145

academic papers and journal articles have been published by our researchers since 2020

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Our leadership team

Meet the great minds behind the CPA Research Institute

Our projects & priorities

What we're currently working on, and why it matters

Our impact

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What is cerebral palsy?

Cerebral palsy is the most common physical disability in children. Learn more about types of CP, signs, severity, diagnosis, treatments and how it affects people.

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