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The Control of Breathing and Airway Defense (CoBAD) Seminar Series featured Drs. Bob Banzett, Associate Professor at Harvard University, & Erica Heinrich, Assistant Professor at University of California, Riverside, on Friday, June 23 at 3:00pm ET. Dr. Banzett runs the Dyspnea Lab, which has made seminal discoveries in…
BREATHE trainee & Fuller Lab postdoc, Dr. Sabhya Rana, was among the 13 awardees for the 2023 Parker B. Francis Fellowship Program. This fellowship will support her work in Direct Current Stimulation to Restore Breathing Following Spinal Cord Injury. Respiratory dysfunction is the leading cause of morbidity…
Thursday, June 8, at 9 am, the NMPT and BREATHE Training Programs hosted a NeuroNines session featuring doctoral student Todd Williams (mentor: Emily Fox) & postdoc Sabhya Rana (mentor: David Fuller).
BREATHE Center Director, Dr. Gordon Mitchell, has been named deputy director of the McKnight Brain Institute. Mitchell joins a leadership team of MBI Director Dr. Jennifer Bizon; fellow Deputy Directors Drs. Steven DeKosky, and Jada Lewis; and Chief Operating Officer Dr. Kevin McNaught, in guiding the MBI’s 230-member neuroscience…
Welcome to our newest BREATHE Center member, Dr. Emma Schachner! She recently joined the Department of Physiological Sciences as an Assistant Professor. Dr. Schachner is an esteemed evolutionary functional morphologist and paleontologist. Her research focuses on the evolution and structural diversity of the respiratory system, with a particular emphasis on…
Thursday, June 1, at 9 am, the NMPT and BREATHE Training Programs hosted a NeuroNines session featuring doctoral students Ethan Benevides (mentor: David Fuller) & Oluwafemi Adegbemigun (mentor: Dorian Rose).
The Control of Breathing and Airway Defense (CoBAD) Seminar Series featured Drs. Michael Lane, Professor at Drexel University, & Lana Zholudeva, Research Scientist at Gladstone Institutes, on Friday, June 9 at 3:00pm ET. Dr. Lane’s research explores the consequences of cervical spinal cord injury, the potential for spontaneous…
BREATHE Associate Director, Dr. David Fuller was named one of two PHHP Doctoral Mentors of the Year. Nominators noted that every PhD student under his guidance has published their dissertation work in high quality scientific journals, participated in multiple national or international scientific conferences, and given numerous local scientific presentations.
The Breathing Research and Therapeutics Center hosted it’s 6th Retreat on May 19, 2023. The event was held at the Austin Cary Forest Campus with over 80 attendees. The day included a methods blitz from 15 faculty & trainees, covering the breadth of research happening across the center. Our…
Thursday, May 25, at 9 am, the NMPT and BREATHE Training Programs hosted a NeuroNines session featuring postdoc Tommy Sutor (mentor: Emily Fox) and doctoral student Natalie Johnson (mentor: Daniel Wesson).
