(February, 2023) Miami is flat, snowless, has no state income tax, and is home to world-class academic medical centers—such as the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, home of The Miami Project to Cure Paralysis—delivering and advancing paralysis research and care. Combined, these factors make the region a lighthouse for people with mobility impairment,…
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(March, 2023) Altered sensation sits at the top of shifted perceptual experience following paralysis, and the presence of post-paralysis pain has the potential to consume those affected. Accordingly, The Miami Project has been long pointed at this problem, with a stack of research approaches including application of technology usually not associated with pain management. Now…
(December, 2022) On November 28th the Kidz Neuroscience Center at The Miami Project to Cure Paralysis / University of Miami Miller School of Medicine celebrated the 10th Anniversary of the Countywide Concussion Care Program and passing of the Youth Concussion Legislation in 2012, known at the time as Florida House Bill 291. A throng of…
Hand function is consistently ranked as the most desired function to regain in the case of impairment due to spinal cord injury (SCI), even above that of bowel and bladder. It stands to reason—with approximately half of SCI occurring in the cervical spine—that The Miami Project to Cure Paralysis researchers have directed their attention on…
October 25, 2022 – Demonstrating unparalleled courage and resilience in the face of enormous challenges and adversities, Mary Kate Callahan and Sarah Will have risen to the top of the Para-Athletic world and, in so doing, have become sterling inspirations for countless thousands of others with spinal cord injuries. So it was only natural that…
September is National Spinal Cord Injury Awareness Month. Please join us in acknowledging the hundreds of thousands in the United States and millions worldwide living with spinal cord injury (SCI). Here are a couple of suggestions on how you can show your support this month: Take some time to learn about #SpinalCordInjury! Many of…
The Miami Project research team is proud to share a series of new exercise videos to help our friends living with spinal cord injuries (SCI), and their caregivers, stay active and healthy in their daily lives. These sessions were designed to help those living with paralysis get the most out of their active time from…
(August 1, 2022) Last week marked the conclusion of the 2022 Miami Project to Cure Paralysis Henry G. Steinbrenner Scholars Program, a 10-week funded, merit-based, research-driven summer research internship. The program achieved its objective of expanding and diversifying the next generation of scientists in the clinically relevant yet underrepresented field of neurotrauma, culminating with the…
June 2022 – On May 13, 2022 Miami Project senior researchers Dr. Vance Lemmon and Dr. John Bixby, alongside prior trainee Dr. Matt Danzi, had the results of their research collaboration with the Simone Di Giovanni Lab at the Imperial College London published in the esteemed peer-reviewed journal Science. The article, titled “Reversible CD8 T…
June 2022 – In May of this year Miami Project researchers, along with industry leader Falci Adaptive Motorsports (FAM), showcased their revolutionary brain-controlled driving technology for the very first time at Pikes Peak International Raceway. The event helped bring to life a dream of driving a NASCAR racecar for a previously paralyzed research participant. German…