Dr. Jae Lee, Professor, Department of Neurological Surgery and The Miami Project received outstanding news that his RM1 Interdisciplinary Team Science Grant will be funded by the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) which is a part of the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH). The proposal entitled “Targeting cell-type specific disease phenotypes…
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W. Dalton Dietrich, Ph.D., Scientific Director of The Miami Project to Cure Paralysis, and Professor of Neurological Surgery has received the National Institute of Health Javits Neuroscience Investigator Award for demonstrating scientific excellence and productivity in neurological research. The Javits Award recognizes investigators with a distinguished record of substantial contributions to neurological science. “This award…
(June 2023) – The Henry G. Steinbrenner Scholars Program is a 10 week immersive, competitive, funded, research-driven summer internship seeding the future of neuroscientifically informed care and cure efforts. This year, eight scholars entered the program and are already well on their way to producing, and then defending, their projects at the program’s culminating final…
S. Shelby Burks, M.D., Assistant Professor of Clinical Neurosurgery at the Miller School of Medicine Department of Neurological Surgery and The Miami Project to Cure Paralysis, was recently awarded Department of Defense (DOD) funding for a project titled “The Efficacy of Spinal Accessary Nerve Transfer Surgery in the Treatment of Patients with High Tetraplegia.” The…
(March-2023) Daniel J. Liebl, Ph.D., professor at The Miami Project to Cure Paralysis and co-director of the Miller School of Medicine’s Medical Science Training Program (M.D./Ph.D.), was recently awarded a $2.6 million R01 grant from the National Institute of Health (NIH) entitled “Stabilizing the tripartite synaptic complex following TBI”. This award allows for continuation of…
(January, 2023) After growing up in a big family in Long Island, Eric Rosemary knew from an early age that he wanted a family of his own, that he wanted to be a dad. Then came Memorial Day weekend of 2009. While boating with friends off Peanut Island, he fell into shallow water and shattered…
(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,…
(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…