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There is a well-recognized problem regarding the efficiency of biomedical research in producing treatments for medical conditions. Contributing to this are the challenges to reproduce and translate experimental therapies into medical practice. This is particularly true in highly complex medical contexts such as spinal cord injury (SCI), which is among the leading cause of severe chronic disability worldwide. Open science and data sharing have been suggested as one tool to address these challenges by increasing transparency, reducing reporting bias, and fostering development and discovery. The SCI community has developed the Open Data Commons (ODC) for SCI following the international recommendations that data must be FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable). Besides the ODC hosting more than 190 datasets across different species and data types (e.g., demographics, treatments), the reuse of this data to realize the promises of data sharing is still lacking. In this project, we suggest reusing shared data to accelerate the translation of experimental treatments to medical implementation.