Neurotrauma to the brain and spinal cord is a significant public health concern, impacting nearly 1.5 million Americans. Within this demographic are military personnel facing unique neurotrauma challenges. Researchers at The Miami Project to Cure Paralysis, a Center of Excellence at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, are answering the call for new…
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September is Spinal Cord Injury Awareness Month! Every 29 minutes another person in the United States suffers a spinal cord injury, altering their life forever. That is why in 2011, we asked the United States Senate to formally recognize September as Spinal Cord Injury Awareness Month! Our intent was to create a larger conversation about…
The Miami Project’s Office of Education and Outreach, directed by David W. McMillan, Ph.D., links a variety of non-scientific stakeholders to The Miami Project’s dizzying diversity of cutting-edge science and technical expertise. Doing so requires the liaising of a single mission across a wide variety of audiences and settings that are not obviously related, from…
Jennifer C. Munoz Pareja, MD, Associate Professor Division of Pediatric Critical Care, interim Section Chief of Pediatric Cardiac Critical Care and Associate Program Director of the Pediatric Critical Care fellowship program at Holtz Children’s Hospital, joins The Miami Project to Cure Paralysis to hone proven neuroscientific excellence onto the topic of pediatric critical care. Her…
WATCH VIDEO (June, 2024) The Miami Project to Cure Paralysis’ ninth open house, and first since the COVID-19 pandemic, featured enlightening talks by top researchers in the spinal cord injury field and explored the cutting-edge labs where researchers are developing groundbreaking therapies. “We hold this open house to bond with the people we care so…
(June, 2024) The Miami Project carries on a storied tradition of developing technologies that tap into the central nervous system with recent developments in detecting and interpreting electrical signals produced by the brain. Known in the industry as brain-computer interface (BCI), this technology that turns thoughts into digital commands includes recent updates from The Miami…
(June, 2024) In the vast landscape of medical research, few areas are as intricate and nuanced as the study of brain and spinal cord injury. These conditions, often resulting from traumatic events, present profound challenges to patients and researchers alike. Amidst these challenges lies the relentless pursuit of understanding and innovation spearheaded by pioneers like W….
(April, 2024) Miami Project’s Dr. Pantelis Tsoulfas, Associate Professor of Neurological Surgery and Cell Biology, continues a long line of collaborative work with Dr. Murray Blackmore, Professor of Biomedical Sciences at Marquette University. Equipped with a new federal award, this accomplished pair continues to employ their established and proven neuroanatomical approach while venturing into new…
(April, 2024) On April 26th The Miami Project to Cure Paralysis will host their 9th Annual Open House. The annual event allows our friends in wheelchairs, their families, supporters and the general public a chance to visit our facilities, tour a few of our labs and hear from some of our leading researchers about some…
The Miami Project to Cure Paralysis’s long history of studying neurological conditions is sustained by a pipeline that stands up the next generation of neuroscientific practitioners. As one such attractor, The Miami Project’s Office of Education and Outreach attended the Miami-Dade County Public Schools’ Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics (STEAM) Expo on Saturday February…