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…
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(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…
(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) 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,…
In this episode of A Moment with Dalton, we talk with Juan Pablo de Rivero Vaccari, Ph.D., Research Assistant Professor, Department of Neurological Surgery and The Miami Project. Dr. de Rivero Vaccari focuses on understanding early inflammatory events corresponding to the innate immune response, the first line of defense against tissue damage and infections. He…
In this episode of A Moment with Dalton, we talk with Hassan Al-Ali, Ph.D., M.S.M., Research Assistant Professor, Department of Neurological Surgery and Medicine. Dr. Al-Ali and his team focus on understanding the signaling pathways that regulate axon growth, and identifying components of those pathways that can be targeted with drugs to induce robust axon…