BREATHE Associate Director, Dr. David Fuller, will be featured in the Department of Neuroscience-McKnight Brain Institute Joint Seminar Series this Thursday, February 8th. Join us at 12pm in the MBI DeWeese Auditorium for Dr. Fuller’s presentation: Oxygen, AMPA, and Spinal Neuroplasticity.
BREATHE Steering Committee member, Dr. Barbara Smith, will be featured in the Aging Seminar Series on Monday, January 29th. Join us from 12-1pm in CTRB, Room 2161 or via Zoom at: https://ufl.zoom.us/J/95730811708. Dr. Smith will present: Rehabilitation Approaches to Improve Respiratory Muscle Function in Hospitalize.
Congratulations to BREATHE T32 alum, Dr. Adrienn Varga, on receiving an Panel Travel Fellowship for the Winter Conference on Brain Research being held in Breckenridge, Colorado.
Congratulations to BREATHE trainees, Kayla Burrowes (mentor: Gordon Mitchell) and Yuhan Mou (mentor: Karen Hegland) for being two of the recipients for this year’s RSD Program Fall Travel Awards!…
Two proposals from the University of Florida College of Medicine — one that aims to build a fully immersive digital replica of operating rooms and intensive care units, and another that will enhance and expand programs in cell and gene therapy — have received $3.5 million from the…
A project led by Physical Therapy Chair & BREATHE Advisor, Dr. Krista Vandenborne, seeks to improve the effectiveness of clinical trials designed to treat childhood neuromuscular diseases. Supported by a $480,000 award from UF President Ben Sasse’s strategic funding initiative, the AI Applications to Pediatric Neuromedicine project combines a…
On Friday, September 29, the University of Florida College of Medicine – Jacksonville hosted the first Social & Science event on the Jacksonville campus. This event featured Dr. David Berlowitz from the University of Melbourne and was preceded by a day of hands-on demonstrations in intermittent hypoxia, volitional and…
The Breathing Research and Therapeutics Center hosted the SCI Workshop on December 1, 2023. The event was held at the Austin Cary Forest Campus with over 60 attendees. The workshop included a faculty and early career blitz from 24 faculty members & trainees, covering the breadth of spinal…
The BREATHE Center announces an exciting opportunity to accelerate impactful discoveries and foster stronger ties between researchers and clinicians at UF, Brooks Rehabilitation, and UFHealth JAX. We seek innovative proposals to: Amplify Impact: Identify and leverage strengths to accelerate groundbreaking SCI research. We seek innovative strategies with clear, tangible outcomes…
BREATHE T32 predoc, Alyssa Mickle, lead a recent publication in the Journal of Respiratory Physiology & Neurobiology along with BREATHE members, Dr. Erica Dale, Dr. David Baekey, and Jesús Peñaloza-Aponte. The Dale Lab has shown that closed-loop epidural stimulation (CL-ES) elicits respiratory plasticity in the form of…
