Mark S. Nash, Ph.D., FACSM, Professor of Neurological Surgery, Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, and Physical Therapy, and Principal Investigator for the Miami Project to Cure Paralysis has been awarded a Paralyzed Veterans Association grant. The grant from the Paralyzed Veterans Association Education Foundation will be to write a Consumer Guide accompanying the Health Care Provider’s…
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We all know that spinal cord injury (SCI) affects numerous body systems after injury. Loss of walking function is not the only consequence of SCI. Also affected are bladder function, bowel function, sexual function, immune system function, autonomic nervous system function, spasticity and pain after injury, and now we’re learning that changes in the body’s…
An emergency room doctor and an air ambulance doctor, Louis Snellgrove and Lloyd Collier from the United Kingdom, are on their way to setting a Guinness World Record for round the world tandem cycling, all in the name of two charities: Spinal Research and the Brain Foundation, who support The Miami Project to Cure Paralysis…
June Bruno has an appointment at The Miami Project from 8:30-11am five days a week in the lab of Dr. Monica Perez, who is studying neuromodulation. Accompanied every day by her husband, Jim, she has never missed a session. Even though they don’t live very far away in neighboring Fort Lauderdale, the short drive can…
Cooling the Nervous System to Protect it At some point, you’ve probably heard about hypothermia treatment, this case cooling the nervous system, being used in people with new spinal cord injuries (SCI). Mild hypothermia treatment involves cooling a person’s body temperature by just a few degrees, immediately after injury, which appears to protect the nervous…
The Long and Winding Path of Axon Regeneration After spinal cord injury (SCI), nerve fibers (axons) have a hard time growing across the area of damage to reestablish functional connections, which often results in loss of sensation and movement below the level of injury. In research laboratories, many different models of SCI are utilized to…
Hassan Al-Ali, PhD, Research Assistant Professor at The Miami Project, is not your typical scientist. His previous mentor and current business partner, Dr. Vance Lemmon, describes him like this: “Hassan is unlike anyone I have met. He is a fusion of a computational scientist, an entrepreneur, a biochemist, a hyper efficient bench scientist, and an…
Researchers at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine and The Miami Project to Cure Paralysis, along with their partners at Scythian Biosciences, are one step closer to finding a new treatment for concussion In 2016, funded by a $16 million grant from Scythian Biosciences, a multidisciplinary Miller School team embarked on a five-year…
The American Spinal Injury Association (ASIA) awarded the 2018 Lifetime Achievement Award to Dr. Richard P Bunge and Dr. Mary Bartlett Bunge. The award is presented to individuals who made a significant contribution to the world of spinal cord injury care. Dr. Richard Bunge and Dr. Mary Bartlett Bunge devoted their careers to understanding and…
Dr. Monica Perez and Colleagues Publish that Acute Intermittent Hypoxia Enhances Corticospinal Synaptic Plasticity in Humans Monica A. Perez, P.T., Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Neurological Surgery and The Miami Project to Cure Paralysis at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine published a paper entitled Acute Intermittent Hypoxia Enhances Corticospinal Synaptic Plasticity in…