The Center for Rehabilitation Science and Engineering (CERSE) is a university-wide research center at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU). CERSE faculty have 60 grants/contracts with $111M in total awards, which fund a robust scientific mentoring network and research operations infrastructure to support high quality research fellow training. CERSE research faculty lead the V.A.-funded, Long-term Impact of Military-relevant Brain Injury Consortium (LIMBIC, $33M/5 years). Richmond hosts the only U.S. Academic-Veterans-Civilian partnership to be awarded NIDILRR SCI and TBI Model System grants, as well as a V.A. TBI Model System grant. CERSE partners with three core clinical institutions: (1) VCUHealth (Virginia’s primary safety net health system of care), (2) Sheltering Arms Institute (SAI, a 114-bed inpatient rehabilitation facility), and (3) the Central Virginia Veterans Affairs Health Care System (CVHCS, which houses one of five V.A. Polytrauma Centers of Excellence and the V.A. system’s largest SCI rehabilitation program).