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…
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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…
This year, once again, Dr. Vance Lemmon found himself in distinguished company at the 2021 International Neural Regeneration Symposium. For multiple years Dr. Lemmon has attended the conference, organized by the editorial board of the scientific journal Neural Regeneration Research, but this year’s virtual meeting was different. During his keynote speech, Dr. Lemmon was awarded…
When most people think of paralysis, they think of not being able to move arms and legs, or not being able to breathe without the aid of a machine. It is commonly overlooked that many other organs and body systems are affected by the disruption of their nerve supply. One area that many do not…
Dr. Kevin Park continues to look into different parts of the the central nervous system (CNS) to shed light on how the obstinate signal conducting neurons encased in our skeleton differ from those in the peripheral nervous system (PNS) nerves that project outside of our skulls and spines. Dr. Park’s research program aims to learn…
Prevention and collaboration are at the core of the KiDZ Neuroscience Center, a youth-focused branch of The Miami Project to Cure Paralysis headed by Gillian Z. Hotz, Ph.D. and dedicated to reducing the number of children and adolescents that sustain brain and spinal cord injuries. KiDZ is now a Miami Project staple, launched in 2001…
A group of researchers from The Miami Project to Cure Paralysis at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine has received a grant from the NIH/NINDS Blueprint Neurotherapeutics Network to fund investigation of a treatment for spinal cord injury (SCI). It is estimated that the total value of the award could reach $10 million…