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Jay Nair receives 2016 Usha Award

Jay Nair, a PhD student in Dr. Fuller’s lab received a 2016 Usha Award. This award is for $500 and will be presented by Dr. Prakash at the Respiration Section banquet at the 2016 Experimental Biology meeting in San Diego.

Emily Plowman, PhD, CCC-SLP receives ALS Association grant

Congratulations to Emily Plowman, Ph.D., CCC-SLP, University of Florida, Gainesville, Fla., and Clifton Gooch, M.D., University of South Florida, Tampa, Fla. Topic: Impact of combined inspiratory/expiratory respiratory training in ALS Award: $200,000 over two years    …

Steven DeKosky, M.D., named interim director of McKnight Brain Institute at UF

Steven T. DeKosky, M.D., has been appointed interim executive director for the Evelyn F. and William L. McKnight Brain Institute of the University of Florida. DeKosky, a prominent Alzheimer’s disease researcher and UF alumnus, came to UF in July as the institute’s deputy director and a professor of neurology…

Scott Powers selected as the Edward F. Adolph Distinguished Lecturer

Scott Powers has been selected as the Edward F. Adolph Distinguished Lecturer by the American Physiological Society Environmental and Exercise Physiology Section.  He will deliver his award lecture on Monday, April 4, 2016 at the Experimental Biology Meeting in San Diego.

UF researchers announce gene therapy project for Duchenne muscular dystrophy

The University of Florida’s Powell Gene Therapy Center has partnered with a biotechnology company to launch a gene therapy project aimed at developing potential treatments for Duchenne muscular dystrophy, the most common form of muscular dystrophy. As part of a nearly $2 million agreement, scientists at the UF…

Outstanding International Student Award for PhD Student Jay Nair

Rehabilitation Science student, Jay Nair, was recognized for outstanding accomplishments on November 17th by the University of Florida International Center. Jay’s novel research project focuses on how sensory afferent neurons in the diaphragm are influenced by spinal cord injury.  A licensed physical therapist, Jay has contributed extensively to the…

CRRR Seminar Series

Respiratory Social and Science Series 02/01/2017 – 5 to 7pm Dr. Vijay Chandran – “A molecular systems analysis of nervous system regeneration“ Location: Biomedical Sciences Building, atrium and room JG32 02/01/2017 – 5 to 7pm Dr. Jerome Dempsey – “Hypoxia  in Humans: A Mixed Blessing“…

CRRR receives Grant from The Craig H. Neilsen Foundation

Gordon Mitchell received $37,000 in funding from the Craig H. Neilsen Foundation to convene a workshop entitled: “Therapeutic intermittent hypoxia and functional recovery of respiratory and non-respiratory motor function with chronic, incomplete SCI: a “road map” to clinical translation​.”  The purpose of this workshop is to create…