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.
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…
Join us for our upcoming Social & Science on Wednesday, November 15 (5:30-7:30pm) in the MBI DeWeese Auditorium! This session will feature Dr. Emma Schachner, Assistant Professor in the Department of Physiological Sciences. She will present: More Interesting than Mammals: Functional Diversity in the Lungs of Birds and Other Reptiles.
The time of day that an experimental oxygen therapy is given highly influences its efficacy in spurring a form of plasticity in the neural system controlling breathing, according to new rat-model research by University of Florida neuroscientists.
The University of Florida Foundation has awarded BREATHE Center Director, Dr. Gordon Mitchell, one of two UF Foundation Term Professorships for 2023-24. The three-year professorship, which comes with a $25,000 award, is presented in support of the university’s preeminence goals to further advance faculty research efforts.
BREATHE T32 trainee, Alyssa Mickle, received the Trainee Professional Development Award from the Society for Neuroscience for her abstract titled “Distribution of cervical spinal c-Fos expression after epidural stimulation in rats with cervical spinal cord injury.” This award will help fund her travel to the Society for Neuroscience’s…
