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Learn more about the 2023 BREATHE Center Retreat, Blitz & Breathwork: A Day with BREATHE in our program agenda. We look forward to seeing you on May 19th at Austin Cary Learning Center!…

The Control of Breathing and Airway Defense (CoBAD) Seminar Series featured Dr. Melissa Bates on Friday, May 26 at 3:00pm ET. Dr. Bates’s work has focused on three areas with strong thematic overlap: 1) sleep-disordered breathing as a driver of blood cancer, 2) oxygen stress in the perinatal…

BREATHE members and trainees were in full force at the American Physiological Society Summit in Long Beach, CA. Beyond presenting nearly 30 posters and 10 oral presentations, BREATHE helped sponsor the Control of Breathing Mixer: Hot Topics in Respiratory Control, organized the Marilyn Menker Trainee Highlights Breakfast, and rocked the…

BREATHE Steering Committee member, Dr. Leo Ferreira, was recently awarded a 2-year, $457k R21 grant from the National Institute on Aging to study “Systemic antioxidant treatment for cardiomyopathy, muscle weakness, and exercise intolerance in postmenopausal HFpEF.” This project will test whether an over-the-counter dietary supplement with antioxidant properties…

The Control of Breathing and Airway Defense (CoBAD) Seminar Series featured Dr. Colleen Farmer on Friday, May 12 at 3:00pm ET. Dr. Farmer’s research aims to understand the evolutionary sequence of events involved in major vertebrate transitions, especially aspects of the evolution of the cardiopulmonary system and the…

Dr. Yasin Seven, former Mitchell Lab member and BREATHE Center trainee, has recently joined the Department of Physiological Sciences as a tenure-track Assistant Professor. Dr. Seven has been developing cell-specific nanoparticle-based therapies to target respiratory centers in the brain, with the aim of improving respiratory function via neuroprotection and neuroplasticity.

The Control of Breathing and Airway Defense (CoBAD) Seminar Series will feature Dr. José Otero, Associate Professor at Ohio State University, &Dr. Christopher Wilson, Professor at Loma Linda University, on Friday, April 28 at 3:00pm ET. Dr. Otero’s research focuses on developmental and neoplastic disorders of the central…

We are just one month away from our annual BREATHE Center Retreat! Join us on May 19th (9am-5pm) at the Austin Cary Forest (10625 NE Waldo Rd) for a full day of events, including a keynote by Dr. Jack Feldman, Distinguished Professor of Neurobiology at UCLA! Breakfast and lunch will…

As part of a multidisciplinary team of neurocritical care, neurosurgery and pain medicine investigators, BREATHE Steering Committee member Dr. Carolina Maciel, has been awarded a $12.9 million National Institutes of Health grant to test a novel way to relieve pain from sudden, excruciating headaches stemming from a burst brain aneurysm…

BREATHE Steering Committee member, Dr. Emily Fox, has been selected as the new Director of the Brooks/UF-PHHP Research Collaboration; a formal partnership between Brooks Rehabilitation and the University of Florida College of Public Health and Health Professions (UF-PHHP).