Training Program News

Thursday, July 27, at 9 am, the NMPT and BREATHE Training Programs hosted a NeuroNines session featuring Anna Fusco (mentor: David Fuller) & BREATHE T32 postdoc Dr. Wendy Olsen (mentor: Nicholas Napoli).

Thursday, July 20, at 9 am, the NMPT and BREATHE Training Programs hosted a NeuroNines session featuring BREATHE T32 postdocs Drs. Alexandria Marciante (mentor: Gordon Mitchell) & Michela Mir (mentors: Gordon Mitchell & Emily Fox).

Thursday, July 13, at 9 am, the NMPT and BREATHE Training Programs hosted a NeuroNines session featuring doctoral students Alessanda Norris (mentor: Daniel Kopinke) & Branden Nguyen (mentor: Ashley Smuder).

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…

Thursday, July 6, at 9 am, the NMPT and BREATHE Training Programs hosted a NeuroNines session featuring doctoral students Alyssa Mickle (mentor: Erica Dale) & Walter Sebastian Barrutia (mentor: Daniel Ferris).

Thursday, June 29, at 9 am, the NMPT and BREATHE Training Programs hosted a NeuroNines session featuring doctoral students Vinicius Mariani (mentor: Leonardo Ferreira) & Kayla Burrowes (mentor: Gordon Mitchell).

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).

Thursday, June 22, at 9 am, the NMPT and BREATHE Training Programs hosted a NeuroNines session featuring postdocs Drs. Priscila Sales de Campos (mentor: Barbara Smith) & Prajwal Thakre (mentor: David Fuller).

Thursday, June 15, at 9 am, the NMPT and BREATHE Training Programs hosted a NeuroNines session featuring doctoral students Vivian Doerr (mentor: Ashley Smuder) & Tinu Olarewaju (mentor: Emily Fox).

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…