The BREATHE Center proudly co-sponsored the 2024 Alachua County Brain Bee alongside the BRAIN Center and the McKnight Brain Institute. The event took place at the McKnight Brain Institute on December 7, 2024. Gainesville area teens participated in the day’s activities and demonstrated their impressive neuroscience knowledge.
BREATHE member, Dr. Sabhya Rana, was recently appointed as one of the new fellows for the Editorial Board of the American Journal of Physiology-Lung Cellular and Molecular Physiology.
BREATHE Steering Committee members, Drs. Erica Dale & Alicia Vose, join the Yoga with Jake podcast to discuss their research and the importance of making science accessible and fun.
Bridging the arts, sciences, and clinical medicine, a dancer and filmmaker with a spinal cord injury shared her journey Wednesday with a crowd of more than 120 University of Florida researchers, rehabilitation therapists, neurointensivists, and students at a screening of her documentary, “Move Me.”…
BREATHE Associate Director, Dr. David Fuller, was recently featured in the UF College of Public Health & Health Professions Researcher Spotlight series. D. Fuller’s lab is pioneering innovative therapies that enhance brain and spinal cord connections to activate respiratory muscles, aiming to restore independent breathing for those with spinal cord…
What’s your first thought when you think of the structures involved in breathing? For many people, the answer is the lungs. Gordon Mitchell, PhD, a PHHP professor of physical therapy and director of the UF Breathing Research and Therapeutics Center, or BREATHE, has a different answer.
BREATHE Steering Committee member and T32 alum, Dr. Alicia Vose, was recently awarded an NIH R41 Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) grant.The grant is a collaboration between the University of Florida (PI: Dr. Alicia Vose) and Novis Products, LLC, a Florida-based, minority-owned small business in Jacksonville, FL.
The National Academy of Medicine has elected UF Distinguished Professor and BREATHE Center member, Christine Schmidt, PhD, to the academy in recognition of her groundbreaking research that has benefited thousands and significantly advanced the fields of nerve regeneration and wound healing.
BREATHE Director, Dr. Gordon Mitchell, was recently featured on an episode of Unite 2 Fight Paralysis’s Curecast. In this episode, he discusses the role of intermittent hypoxia and its effect on neuroplasticity and recovery of respiratory and motor function. This will serve as a primer to his upcoming talk at their…
BREATHE member, Dr. Ramon Sun, has been named as one of the new Associate Director for Research Programs & Innovations for the McKnight Brain Institute, along with Dr. Jose Abisambra.
