(December 2025) When Hassan Al Ali, Ph.D., associate professor of neurological surgery at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, first came to Miami, he was searching for more than just a new research home. He was looking for a place where bold ideas could reshape the future of medicine. Today, as director of…
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(December 2025) The Miami Project’s Jonathan Jagid, M.D. and Brian Noga, Ph.D. have established a strong foundation in deep brain stimulation (DBS) for movement disorders. Their collaborative expertise, honed through years of research and clinical work, is now driving a significant expansion: leveraging DBS not only for Parkinson’s but also for individuals living with spinal…
(November – 2025) The 2026 Henry G. Steinbrenner Summer Scholars Program now accepting applications. Are you a local undergraduate passionate about neuroscience? Apply for this prestigious 10-week summer internship at The Miami Project to Cure Paralysis! Gain hands-on experience in cutting-edge neuroscience research labs, attend weekly sessions, journal clubs, and career development workshops. The program…
WATCH THE VIDEO (November 2025) The Miami Project to Cure Paralysis recently hosted its highly anticipated 2025 Open House on October 24th at both the Lois Pope LIFE Center and the Christine E. Lynn Rehabilitation Center. The event was a remarkable showcase of groundbreaking research in the fields of neuroscience and rehabilitation, drawing in a…
(August – 2025) – For most people, walking or lifting a coffee cup are simple acts they barely consider. But for those who have suffered spinal cord or brain injuries, including stroke, these simple tasks can be virtually impossible. The Miami Project to Cure Paralysis, a Center of Excellence at the University of Miami Miller…
(August, 2025) After more than four decades of impactful work improving the lives of people living with spinal cord injuries (SCI), Mark S. Nash, Ph.D., founding principal investigator and associate scientific director for research at The Miami Project to Cure Paralysis, announced his retirement and was celebrated by friends and colleagues at The Miami Project…
(June – 2025) A paralyzed United States military veteran has been implanted with the ground-breaking Neuralink brain-computer device by surgeons at The Miami Project to Cure Paralysis and Department of Neurological Surgery at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. RJ, who is paralyzed due to a spinal cord injury sustained from a motorcycle…
Lois Pope Gives $10 Million to the University of Miami to Establish a Fund for Neuroscience Research in Memory of Her Daughter Gift will name the Lois Pope Laboratory Wing in Memory of Lorraine Pope in the Lois Pope LIFE Center (June – 2025) Lois Pope watched with dismay as her daughter Lorraine suffered from Alzheimer’s…
(May – 2025) For Tommy, a 28-year-old man living with tetraplegia from a motor vehicle accident, the ability to open a medicine bottle or grip his wheelchair’s hand rims represents more than medical progress—it’s a restoration of independence. “Literally everything changed,” he says, describing life after participating in a nerve transfer surgery study led by…
(March, 2025) In the early 80’s, W. Dalton Dietrich, PhD, was recruited to the Department of Neurology, University of Miami to collaborate with colleagues in the internationally recognized Cerebrovascular Disease Research Center (CVDRC). One early task was to develop morphological approaches to quantitatively assess pathological damage in models of cerebral ischemia and stroke. An observation…