Dr. Sabhya Rana, a Research Assistant Scientist at the BREATHE Center, has accepted a tenure-track Assistant Professor position in the Department of Neuroscience and the Belford Center for Spinal Cord Injury at The Ohio State University. Her independent research program will officially launch on August 1st, 2025,…
Alyssa Mickle, BREATHE T32 alum and member of Dr. Erica Dale’s Lab, has been awarded a Predoctoral Individual National Research Service Award from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) to support her research on improving breathing after spinal cord injury. The Dale Lab has shown…
New research reveals that a type of support cell in the spinal cord plays an important role in influencing plasticity of motor neurons responsible for breathing, a key insight that could help refine ongoing studies into a potential therapy for compromised breathing and other movements. …
Bridging the arts, sciences, and clinical medicine, a dancer and filmmaker with a spinal cord injury shared her journey Wednesday with a crowd of more than 120 University of Florida researchers, rehabilitation therapists, neurointensivists, and students at a screening of her documentary, “Move Me.”…
BREATHE Associate Director, Dr. David Fuller, was recently featured in the UF College of Public Health & Health Professions Researcher Spotlight series. D. Fuller’s lab is pioneering innovative therapies that enhance brain and spinal cord connections to activate respiratory muscles, aiming to restore independent breathing for those with spinal cord…
Join the McKnight Brain Institute, Center for Arts in Medicine, and Breathing Research and Therapeutics Center for a special screening of “Move Me” at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 6 at UF’s Malachowsky Hall Auditorium. This documentary follows dancer and director Kelsey Peterson’s journey after a life-changing spinal cord injury.
BREATHE postdocs, Drs. Alex Marciante, Sabhya Rana, and Michela Mir, were recently promoted by the UF College of Public Health and Health Professions. Congratulations to all! Dr. Alex Marciante, a former BREATHE T32 postdoc fellow, currently serves as a Research Assistant Scientist (Department of Physical Therapy) in Dr. Gordon…
Cancelled due to incoming hurricane Milton. Join us in celebrating Christopher Reeve’s legacy on his birthday with a BREATHE Watch Party of Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story on Wednesday, September 25 (7pm) at Regal Butler Town Center (3101 SW 35th Blvd,…
September is SCI Awareness Month! The BREATHE Center, Brooks Rehabilitation Clinical Research Center, and the SCI Health Research Partnership (SHARP) celebrated and connected over SCI research with demos, dialogue, and delicious food! This co-hosted event brought together trainees, clinicians, and community members across Brooks Rehabilitation and the University of…
BREATHE Steering Committee member, Dr. Erica Dale, received funding for her project Effects of acute cannabis smoke exposure on respiration after cervical spinal cord injury in rats, from the Consortium for Medical Marijuana Clinical Outcomes Research Grants Program. This funding will allow her lab to start a…
