BREATHE member, Dr. Karen Hegland, is featured in the College of Public Health & Health Profession’s newest Researcher Spotlight Series. She discusses the impact of airway protection for individuals with Parkinson’s, as well as how her research aims to help people with swallowing and cough disorders maintain eating, drinking and…
Take a look behind the scenes at the work of Dr. Gordon Mitchell’s dedicated lab manager, Dave Fromholt.
Learn about incoming Gator NeuroScholar and BREATHE member, Mehdi Ahmadian. He will be working with Dr. Gordon Mitchell in the Department of Physical Therapy.
Learn about incoming Gator NeuroScholar and BREATHE member, Dr. Pedro Trevizan-Bau. He will be working with Dr. Leah Reznikov in the Department of Physiological Sciences.
BREATHE members, Drs. Gordon Mitchell, Emily Fox, and Alex Marciante, along with alumni Drs. Jay Nair and Joe Welch, recently published a new study in APS Function. Acute intermittent hypoxia (AIH) is a promising strategy to induce functional…
This summer, the McKnight Brain Institute is launching a new postdoctoral fellowship program, Gator NeuroScholars, directed by Dr. Gordon Mitchell. BREATHE is excited to be welcoming two new postdocs, Drs. Mehdi Ahmadian & Pedro Trevizan-Bau.
In a recent publication, BREATHE T32 alumni, Drs. Cara Donohue and Lauren Tabor-Gray discuss the use of the Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Functional Rating Scale-Revised (ALSFRS-R) in detecting and monitoring dysarthria in individuals with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS).
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…
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…
