The National Institutes of Health (NIH) Outstanding Scholars in Neuroscience Award Program (OSNAP) is designed to recognize and support those who are conducting exceptional neuroscience research across the nation and have great academic potential in their scientific training. The OSNAP is sponsored by the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS), the National Eye Institute…
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Miami Project Researchers, with Jae Lee, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Neurological Surgery and The Miami Project and colleagues, published a manuscript titled Single-cell Analysis of the Cellular Heterogeneity and Interactions in the Injured Mouse Spinal Cord in the Journal of Experimental Medicine. The paper discusses how the team was successful in isolating every major cell…
You may have noticed a different look to the website for The Miami Project to Cure Paralysis. Our web and marketing team has done extensive research and received feedback from all stakeholders as we thoughtfully considered the updates that you see today. This upgrade is a work in progress and will continue to develop over…
Miami Project researchers recently published a manuscript titled, Cardiometabolic risks and atherosclerotic disease in ApoE knockout mice: Effect of spinal cord injury and Salsalate anti-inflammatory pharmacotherapy in the journal PLOS ONE that demonstrates positive results in treating some of the secondary cardiovascular complications following spinal cord injury (SCI). The researchers, from the lab of Mark…
(March 2021) The Darrell Gwynn Chapter of The Buoniconti Fund, with NHRA driver Paul Lee and McLeod Racing and FTI Performance, recently donated a custom wheelchair to a Melbourne, Florida man who was paralyzed six years ago in an accident. The donation was made to recipient Paul Green with Darrell Gwynn, Paul Lee and other…
(March 2021) The Buoniconti Fund to Cure Paralysis, the fundraising and awareness arm of The Miami Project to Cure Paralysis, Board of Directors recently announced the addition of Marko Dimitrijevic, an entrepreneur, investor, and award-winning photographer, to its Board of Directors. The Buoniconti Fund’s Board of Directors has a mandate to raise significant funds and…
(February 2021) The Miami Project to Cure Paralysis, a Center of Excellence at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, is proud to announce that it has been awarded a Quality of Life Grant from the Christopher & Dana Reeve Foundation National Paralysis Resource Center, which will support efforts to address social isolation during…
(February 2021) A new era of rehabilitative care has dawned with the opening of the state-of-the-art Christine E. Lynn Rehabilitation Center for The Miami Project to Cure Paralysis at UHealth/Jackson Memorial, dedicated to providing the best possible outcomes to patients. The stunning 250,000-square-foot, nine-story structure on the Jackson Memorial Medical Campus houses 80 inpatient beds…
(December 2020) Miami Project / University of Miami Miller School of Medicine researchers, as part of a collaboration with a UM-based biotechnology spin off, Truvitech LLC, and scientists from University of California, San Diego, University of California, Davis, University of Miami, Wilmer Eye Institute at Johns Hopkins, Stanford University, and University of California, San Francisco,…
(December 2020) Ever wanted to learn more about the neurotrauma research underway at The Miami Project? Now is your chance because The Miami Project is offering a Remote Exposure to Neurotrauma Research Program. This is a fully remote, “do at your own pace” version of our popular summer program, which was previously open to only…