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(November 2020) The Institute for Neural Engineering at the University of Miami hosted more than 200 neuroscientists and biomedical engineers from leading institutions across the State of Florida during the virtually-held 4th Neural Engineering Research Symposium on October 26th and 27th of 2020. The Symposium highlighted ongoing and planned breakthrough translational neuroscience and neurotechnology development…

(November 2020) A Miami Project to Cure Paralysis research team, led by James Guest, M.D., Ph.D., Clinical Professor, Department of Neurological Surgery and The Miami Project, recently published a paper in Frontiers in Neurology, titled Progressive motor circuit recovery after cell transplantation in sub-acute complete paraplegia, that demonstrates positive motor circuit recovery following cell transplantation….

(October 2020) – While the 35th Annual Great Sports Legends Dinner benefiting The Buoniconti Fund to Cure Paralysis had to be held virtually rather than at its traditional standing-room-only New York City hotel ballroom setting, the stories told at the event by those living with spinal cord injury and paralysis; the sports icons and musical…

(October 2020) Anne E. Palermo, PT, DPT, Ph.D. Candidate and Staff Physical Therapist, Department of Physical Therapy and The Miami Project, and colleagues, recently published a paper in Spinal Cord Series and Cases that demonstrates the benefits of respiratory muscle training (RMT) in the home setting.  The researchers, including Lawrence P. Cahalin, PT, PhD, Professor,…

(September 2020) – Over the past three and a half decades, The Buoniconti Fund to Cure Paralysis, the fundraising arm of The Miami Project to Cure Paralysis, has honored a veritable “Who’s Who” of Hall of Fame members, Olympic Gold Medalists, and World Champions in every professional sport at its Annual Great Sports Legends Dinner. Now,…