Tommy Sutor spoke at the Working 2 Walk conference in Vancouver, October 2018, on his research at the University of Florida: “Acute Intermittent Hypoxia: A Scientific and Personal Odyssey”. Tommy is part of a team of researchers and clinicians at Brooks Rehabilitation and the University of Florida that are studying…
Regulation of Intermittent Hypoxia Induced Respiratory Motor Plasticity Contributors Dr. Gordon Mitchell and his team were recently awarded a four-year, $2.4 million grant from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute concerning the fundamental mechanisms of respiratory motor…
Gordon Mitchell and collaborator Elisa Gonzalez-Rothi were recently awarded a 4 year, 2.8 million dollar grant from the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute to optimize optimize respiratory plasticity elicited by repetitive exposure to low oxygen…
Jose Oberto is the recipient of a APS Hearst Undergraduate Summer Research Fellowship hosted by Gordon Mitchell, PhD. Amari Thomas is the recipient of a Short-Term Research Education Program to Increase Diversity in Health-Related Research (STRIDE) Fellowship. hosted by Elisa J. Gonzalez-Rothi. American Physiological Society Award “The…
Dr. Erica Dale Dr. Erica Dale has been awarded a $300,000, 2 year Craig H. Nielsen Foundation grant within their Spinal Cord Injury Research on the Translational Spectrum mechanism. Erica received her B.S. in Zoology at Humboldt State University and completed a senior thesis…
Dr. Arash Tadjalli Dr. Arash Tadjalli, mentored by Dr. Gordon Mitchell, succeeded in a highly competitive program and has been awarded a Parker B. Francis Fellowship sponsored by the Francis Family Foundation. The Parker B. Francis Fellowship is intended…
On Tuesday, March 5, a pair of British emergency room physicians cycling around the world to raise funds and awareness for two charities supporting spinal cord and brain research (Spinal Research and the Brain Foundation) stopped by the McKnight Brain Institute. The physicians, Lloyd Collier and Louis Snellgrove, are also…
By Michelle Koidin Jaffee Superman” actor and disabilities activist Christopher Reeve often traveled the country to visit teams of neuroscientists working to discover possible treatments for spinal cord injuries. A framed photo of Reeve during one such visit — in his wheelchair with his portable ventilator, the result…
