(December, 2024) The Miami Project to Cure Paralysis’s rich history of conducting team science research on a variety of neurological conditions has resulted in an important federal award. The Co-Principal Investigators Drs. W. Dalton Dietrich, PhD, Professor and Scientific Director, and Juan Pablo de Rivero Vaccari, PhD, Associate Professor have received a $1.6 million award,…
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(November, 2024) In a large multicenter clinical trial recently published in Nature Medicine that evaluated the safety and efficacy of ARC Therapy to improve arm and hand functions in people with chronic spinal cord injury, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine and other researchers found 72% of those studied experienced meaningful improvements in strength…
(November, 2024) Researchers at The Miami Project and the Department of Neurological Surgery at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine are advancing a groundbreaking therapy to treat peripheral nerve injuries: Schwann cells. Normally, these specialized neural cells protect and sometimes regenerate axons, the nerve cell components that carry electrical signals, but scientists are…
(October, 2024) Annalisa Heiss came to Miami as a 16-year-old to enroll in a peripheral nerve injury clinical trial after a car accident and returned as a college student in the Henry G. Steinbrenner Scholars Program. In 2019, Annalisa Heiss was in a car accident in her home state of Georgia. It left the then…
(October, 2024) Neurotrauma to the brain and spinal cord is a significant public health concern, impacting nearly 1.5 million Americans. Within this demographic are military personnel facing unique neurotrauma challenges. Researchers at The Miami Project to Cure Paralysis, a Center of Excellence at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, are answering the call…
September is Spinal Cord Injury Awareness Month! Every 29 minutes another person in the United States suffers a spinal cord injury, altering their life forever. That is why in 2011, we asked the United States Senate to formally recognize September as Spinal Cord Injury Awareness Month! Our intent was to create a larger conversation about…
The Miami Project’s Office of Education and Outreach, directed by David W. McMillan, Ph.D., links a variety of non-scientific stakeholders to The Miami Project’s dizzying diversity of cutting-edge science and technical expertise. Doing so requires the liaising of a single mission across a wide variety of audiences and settings that are not obviously related, from…
Jennifer C. Munoz Pareja, MD, Associate Professor Division of Pediatric Critical Care, interim Section Chief of Pediatric Cardiac Critical Care and Associate Program Director of the Pediatric Critical Care fellowship program at Holtz Children’s Hospital, joins The Miami Project to Cure Paralysis to hone proven neuroscientific excellence onto the topic of pediatric critical care. Her…
WATCH VIDEO (June, 2024) The Miami Project to Cure Paralysis’ ninth open house, and first since the COVID-19 pandemic, featured enlightening talks by top researchers in the spinal cord injury field and explored the cutting-edge labs where researchers are developing groundbreaking therapies. “We hold this open house to bond with the people we care so…
(June, 2024) The Miami Project carries on a storied tradition of developing technologies that tap into the central nervous system with recent developments in detecting and interpreting electrical signals produced by the brain. Known in the industry as brain-computer interface (BCI), this technology that turns thoughts into digital commands includes recent updates from The Miami…