About Us
In 1985, Barth A. Green, M.D., world-renowned neurosurgeon, and Nick Buoniconti, NFL Hall of Fame linebacker, founded The Miami Project to Cure Paralysis after Nick’s son, Marc, sustained a spinal cord injury during a college football game. The Miami Project, a Center of Excellence at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, is a leading global research center. The Miami Project is conducting cutting-edge discovery, translational and clinical investigations in traumatic spinal cord and brain injury, peripheral nerve injury and neurological diseases and disorders including Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, ALS, Multiple Sclerosis and stroke.
The Miami Project’s international team under the leadership of Drs. Barth Green, Allan Levi and W. Dalton Dietrich, has grown to more than 175 scientists, researchers, clinicians and support staff dedicated to improving the quality of life of those suffering from spinal cord and brain injuries and other neurological diseases and disorders. Miami Project researchers are conducting clinical studies and trials in spinal cord injury, including testing neuroprotective strategies, cellular therapies using Schwann cell and stem cells and advanced rehabilitation and neuromodulation approaches including the use of brain machine interface technologies. Additionally, their scientists are researching drug discovery for axonal regeneration and immune modulation, neuropathic pain, male fertility and cardiovascular disorders.