When most people think about spinal cord injury, they often picture paralysis, the loss of movement in the arms or legs. That image is powerful, but incomplete. Many of the most consequential effects of spinal cord injury are less visible, including impaired bladder and bowel control, changes in…
BREATHE Center director Dr. Gordon Mitchell, has successfully renewed his R01 grant from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute. His project, Microglial regulation of intermittent hypoxia-induced phrenic motor plasticity, focuses on how the nervous system adapts to support breathing. One of the most essential models…
After a spinal cord injury seven years ago, Jared Hogg found himself learning how to navigate life with the help of a team of clinicians and researchers at Brooks Rehabilitation Clinical Research Center in Jacksonville. Then, he joined them. Hogg is now a member of the leadership team for the Spinal…
BREATHE Steering Committee members, Drs. Elisa Gonzalez-Rothi and Alicia Vose, were recently awarded an R21 from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. Their project: Mechanisms of swallowing dysfunction in a translational rodent model of chronic cervical spinal cord injury, will investigate how swallowing…
BREATHE Steering Committee member, Dr. Elisa Gonzalez-Rothi, was recently awarded an R01 from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke. Her project: Combinatorial respiratory rehabilitation approaches to enhance breathing recovery after cervical spinal cord injury, will investigate combining therapeutic acute intermittent hypoxia (tAIH) with task-specific respiratory…
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…
