BREATHE is devoted to developing new therapeutics to restore breathing and airway defense, walking, and health in those living with spinal cord injuries. A particular focus is to harness spinal cord plasticity through intermittent hypoxia or spinal cord electrical stimulation to restore function.

	Researcher/Clinician Name	Title	Department	Cores	Specialties
	Prodip Bose, MD, PhD	Professor & Director	Department of Neurology	Neurological Disorders Core, Spinal Cord Injury Core	Spasticity after TBI/SCI
	Vijayendran Chandran, PhD	Assistant Professor	Department of Pediatrics	Basic Breathing Research Core, Neurological Disorders Core, Spinal Cord Injury Core	Peripheral and central nervous system regeneration
	David Clark, ScD	Associate Professor	Department of Aging & Geriatric Research	Neurological Disorders Core, Spinal Cord Injury Core	Rehabilitation from stroke and SCI (human movement)
	Erica Dale, PhD	Assistant Professor	Department of Physiology and Functional Genomics	Basic Breathing Research Core, Neurotechnology Core, Spinal Cord Injury Core	Spinal stimulation induced phrenic motor plasticity; neurostimulation and functional recovery of breathing capacity after spinal injury
	Emily Fox, PT, DPT, PhD, NCS	Research Associate Professor	Department of Physical Therapy	Basic Breathing Research Core, Neurological Disorders Core, Neurotherapeutic Oxygen Core, Spinal Cord Injury Core	Phrenic/diaphragm pacing as rehabilitative tool; therapeutic intermittent hypoxia and spinal injury
	David Fuller, PhD	Professor & Program Director	Department of Physical Therapy	Basic Breathing Research Core, Airway Defense Core, Neurological Disorders Core, Neurotherapeutic Oxygen Core, Neurotechnology Core, Spinal Cord Injury Core	Spinal stimulation and recovery of breathing activity with opiate-induced respiratory depression and spinal injury; Regulation of airway muscles; hyperbaric oxygenation, intermittent hypoxia and respiratory plasticity, Pompe disease
	Carolyn Geis, MD	Associate Professor	Department of Orthopaedics & Rehabilitation	Neurological Disorders Core, Spinal Cord Injury Core	Clinical SCI
	Elisa Gonzalez-Rothi, DPT, PhD	Research Assistant Professor	Department of Physical Therapy	Basic Breathing Research Core, Neurological Disorders Core, Neurotherapeutic Oxygen Core, Spinal Cord Injury Core	Respiratory plasticity induced by neurostimulation and intermittent hypoxia; spinal cord injury; sleep apnea & pathogenic intermittent hypoxia after SCI
	Daniel Hoh, MD	Associate Professor	Department of Neurosurgery	Neurological Disorders Core, Spinal Cord Injury Core	Minimally invasive and complex spine surgery; spinal cord regeneration; neurologic rehabilitation; treatment of spinal degenerative, trauma, deformity, tumor, rheumatologic, and infectious disorders
	Jack Judy, PhD	Professor & Program Director	Nanoscience Institute for Medical and Engineering Technology	Neurological Disorders Core, Neurotechnology Core, Spinal Cord Injury Core	Advanced neural-interface technology and systems, autonomic neuroengineering; neuroprosthetics
	Gordon Mitchell, PhD	Preeminence Professor & Director	Department of Physical Therapy	Basic Breathing Research Core, Neurological Disorders Core, Neurotherapeutic Oxygen Core, Spinal Cord Injury Core	Intermittent hypoxia induced respiratory plasticity, therapeutic intermittent hypoxia in spinal injury and ALS
	Maria Nikodemova, MS, PhD	Research Associate Scientist	Department of Physical Therapy	Basic Breathing Research Core, Neurological Disorders Core, Neurotherapeutic Oxygen Core, Spinal Cord Injury Core	microglial plasticity in healthy CNS and during neurodegeneration; APOE4 phenotype, sleep apnea; the role of microglia and neuroinflammation in regulating respiratory motor plasticity during hypoxia and after spinal cord injury
	Kevin Otto, PhD	Professor & Senior Associate Chair	Department of Biomedical Engineering	Neurological Disorders Core, Neurotechnology Core, Spinal Cord Injury Core	Neural interfaces, multi-channel implantable micro devices for neural stimulation, autonomic neuroengineering; neuroprosthetics; spinal/epidural stimulation
	Dana Otzel, PhD, ATC, LAT	Health Science Specialist	Malcolm Randall VA Medical Center	Neurological Disorders Core, Spinal Cord Injury Core	Human and rodent studies of muscle/bone rehabilitation after SCI
	Karim Oweiss, PhD	Professor	Department of Biomedical Engineering	Neurological Disorders Core, Neurotechnology Core, Spinal Cord Injury Core	Neuroengineering, cortical compensation for SCI; neural interface design to restore, augment or repair lost sensorimotor function
	Christine Schmidt, PhD	Professor & Chair	Department of Biomedical Engineering	Neurological Disorders Core, Neurotechnology Core, Spinal Cord Injury Core	Neuroregeneration after peripheral or spinal cord injury
	Yasin B. Seven, MS, PhD	Research Assistant Scientist	Department of Physical Therapy	Basic Breathing Research Core, Neurotechnology Core, Neurological Disorders Core, Spinal Cord Injury Core	Neuroprotection in spinal cord injury and neurodegenerative diseases, nanoparticle-based targeted drug delivery
	Floyd Thompson, PhD	Professor Emeritus	Department of Neuroscience	Neurological Disorders Core, Spinal Cord Injury Core	Spasticity after TBI/SCI
	Shahab Vahdat, PhD	Assistant Professor	Department of Applied Physiology & Kinesiology	Neurological Disorders Core, Spinal Cord Injury Core	Imaging SCI and stroke in human and rodent models
	Heather Vincent, PhD, FACSM	Associate Professor	Department of Orthopaedics & Rehabilitation	Neurological Disorders Core, Spinal Cord Injury Core	Rehabilitation from SCI
	Joshua Yarrow, PhD	Health Scientist	Malcolm Randall VA Medical Center	Neurological Disorders Core, Spinal Cord Injury Core	Sex hormones and bone density after SCI