Scientific Team

The Miami Project faculty is a multidisciplinary team comprised of both basic and clinical scientists with expertise in neuroscience. 

 

 

Read a Message from the Scientific Director, W. Dalton Dietrich, Ph.D.

 

FACULTY 

 

PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE

 

Marc A. Buoniconti

Since my accident twenty-four years ago, my life has changed.  While I can no longer play football, I believe I’ve been given a purpose in life far greater than what I could have achieved being an athlete.  I believe life has called me to help bring awareness to the issue of paralysis and raise the money that will find this cure.  I understand that is only through the amazing dedication of our scientists that a cure will be found. 

 

I hope our friends, supporters and donors are proud of the work of The Miami Project and The Buoniconti Fund.  It is no small feat that in 24 years, the scientific and medical community has revolutionized the way people are being treated today.  People who are paralyzed are living longer lives with a significant improvement to their quality of life.  New therapies that target acute and chronic spinal cord injuries are being developed and are at the FDA’s doorstep waiting for the approval to begin Human Clinical Trials.  Read more.

 

Scientific Research

The broad scope of collaborative research conducted at The Miami Project is dedicated to finding new treatments for spinal cord injury.    

 

 

Read a Message from the Chairman, Barth A. Green, M.D.

 

ADVANCES 

 

SUMMER SAFETY

 

The summer months are some of the busiest months for spinal cord injuries, warn leading doctors at The Miami Project to Cure Paralysis, a Center of Excellence at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine.  As we head into Memorial Day weekend, the unofficial start of summer, doctors and researchers say that safety precautions are the best measures to prevent spinal cord injury (SCI) during the high-risk months of summer and year round...READ MORE

 

 

 

 
 
Register to receive email updates   

 

Clinical Trials Initiative 

Years in the making, with unprecedented scientific triumphs, we are actively moving ahead with a Clinical Trials Initiative.  Indeed, this is an exciting endeavor.

 

 

Watch our Video.

 

UPDATE 

NEWS AND EVENTS

OCT
6
Twenty-Fourth Annual Great Sports Legends Dinner
Tuesday, October 6, 2009
The Buoniconti Fund's premiere event which honors Great Sports Legends from different athletic categories at the Waldorf=Astoria Hotel in New York City...MORE
JUL
10

2008-2009
Special Seminar Series
Friday, July 10, 2009 @ 1pm
Lois Pope LIFE Center
James K Batten Apex and
Auditorium - 7th Floor

Rutledge Ellis-Behnke, Ph.D.
University of Hong Kong

 

Accolades

 

Scientific Lecture Calendar

 


Events Calendar

 

 
 
The Miami Project to Cure Paralysis
1095 NW 14th Terrace
Lois Pope LIFE Center
Miami, FL  33136 USA
p. (305) 243-6001 or 1.800.STAND UP
f. (305) 243-6017
e. miamiproject@med.miami.edu
 
Copyright 2009 University of Miami, All Rights Reserved.