Dr. Thomas Clanton (left) and Gerard Robinson (right) BREATHE Trainer, Dr. Thomas Clanton, and his predoctoral T32-funded BREATHE trainee, Gerard Robinson, recently demonstrated that skeletal muscles play a critical role in defense against septic infection. The study was supported by…
After a major health procedure like cardiac surgery, a patient’s main focus should be one thing: recovery. However, new research published in the Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery highlighted previously underrecognized threats to postoperative success: Dysphagia, or swallowing impairment, characterized airway invasion of ingested material into the lungs…
One mystery of COVID-19 is the occurrence of silent hypoxaemia, a condition where some patients experience dangerously low levels of oxygen in the blood without apparent awareness or discomfort (often misleadingly termed “happy hypoxia”). In a recent Editor’s Choice 2021 Review in The Journal of Physiology, Center…
The UF BREATHE Center is pleased to co-sponsor the upcoming Graduate Student Diversity Research Day hosted by the Organization for Graduate Student Advancement and Professional Development and the Black Graduate Student Organization. The event will keynote speaker Dr. Monica Baskin, Professor of Preventive Medicine and the inaugural Vice…
The BREATHE Team extends a huge THANK YOU for your generosity! We received 24 donations over the past 24 hours that will allow our center to grow and thrive! Every bit counts!…
Learn more about the generous donation of Dr. Jon Wilkins and his late wife Nancy to support the continued fight for enhanced therapeutics and outcomes in ALS.
BREATHE Steering Committee Member, Dr. Barbara Smith, received the James Dunleavy Distinguished Service Award at the American Physical Therapy Association Combined Sections Meeting.
Dr. Krista Vandenborne, Chair of the UF Department of Physical Therapy and BREATHE Center advisor, was recently awarded a new five-year, $6.25 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to support continued efforts to develop MRI biomarkers for individuals with Duchenne muscular dystrophy, expanding the study to…
New preclinical research led by Drs. David Fuller and Michael Sunshine demonstrates a novel method to restore breathing following opioid overdose or spinal cord injury.
Dr. Donald Bolser, BREATHE Steering Committee Member and Professor and Associate Chair in the Department of Physiological Sciences, was awarded an R01 research grant from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute to study the “Influence of Opioids on the Brainstem Respiratory Network.”…
