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Center members Dr. Emily Fox and Dr. Gordon Mitchell lead a new study to investigate ways to optimize the treatment and gain a better understanding of which individuals will benefit……
In a major week for concussion science across the United States and Europe, BRAIN Center members and alumni were represented across the board! Aliyah Snyder, PhD, and Michael Jaffee, MD, at the AAN Sports Concussion Course in Las Vegas. Dr. Michael Jaffee, Vice Chair of…
Center member Eduardo Canderlario-Jalil and his team have identified a new potential way to minimize brain damage caused by ischemic stroke: treatment using a synthetic form of adropin, a molecule naturally produced in mammals. Findings from the preclinical mouse-model study, published today in the journal Stroke, offer hope of adding…
As part of Team UFHealth, the BRAIN Center joined forces with the other neuroscience and neuromedicine centers on campus in the local Walk to End Alzheimer’s on October 22, 2022.
Several center members, including Director Michael Jaffee, were among eight research teams awarded MBI funds to conduct neuroscience and neuromedicine research at UF.
The BRAIN Center was pleased to host a Strategic Planning Retreat at the beautiful Stern Learning Center on the UF Austin Cary Forest Campus on September 20, 2022. Facilitated by UFHR Training & Organizational Development, center members had an opportunity to discuss their shared definition…
Want to learn more about the brain injury network here at UF? Starting in Fall 2022, center members will produce short videos regarding their work, collaborations, and hopes for the center in our Neural Networks series. These vignettes will be posted throughout the year. In preparation for our upcoming Strategic…
On NPR’s All Things Considered, Dr. Brandon Lucke-Wold weighs in on the need to incorporate technology for better protection.
Center Steering Committee member Lakiesha Williams, Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering, recently received a prestigious R01 grant from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders & Stroke. This $1.7M award will support her work, along with co-investigators Dr. Erika Moore in Materials Science and Engineering and Dr. Justin Hilliard in Neurosurgery, comparing…
Four University of Florida neuroscientists have earned Brain and Spinal Cord Injury Research Trust Funds to support collaborative projects focused on neural injury and neuroresilience. Distributed by the Brain Injury, Rehabilitation, and Neuroresilience Center, the funds will be used to foster interactions between brain injury clinicians and researchers, harnessing collective…
