UF BRAIN Center

Dr. Michael S. Jaffee, an expert in brain injury and sleep medicine and our center director, has been named chair of the UF Department of Neurology.

Help kick off Brain Awareness Week on Monday, March 6th at 12:00 pm in the DeWeese Auditorium (MBI LG-101A). Dr. Aysegul Gunduz, Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering & Fixel Brain Mapping Professor, and Ava Burgess, Graduate Research Assistant in the Brain Mapping Laboratory, will discuss their experiences with traumatic brain…

Rus Bauer Center Steering Committee member, Russel Bauer, PhD, ABPP-CN, was recently awarded the International Neuropsychological Society’s Lifetime Service Award. Professor Emeritus in the Department of Clinical and Health Psychology, Dr. Bauer has acted as primary mentor for over 40 doctoral students over the course of his career and had…

As the assistant director of UF’s Breathing Research and Therapeutics (BREATHE) Center as well as UF’s Brain Injury, Rehabilitation, and Neuroresilience (BRAIN) Center, Kate Casey-Sawicki‘s duties are wide-ranging, including grant writing, marketing and communications, management of training grants, web design, event planning and general project management.

Join us via Zoom on Monday, Jan 9 at 12 pm for the first UF BRAIN Building of the year! Center Steering Committee members Dr. Lakiesha Williams and Dr. Joe Abisambra will discuss “Developing the Brain Injury Collaborative Network: Basic Sciences.” Anyone interested in building a collective infrastructure with the expertise to empower BRAIN Center members’…

BRAIN Center Seed Fund Opportunity Do you have a research idea that requires a small kick start? Perhaps you need a piece of equipment to complete an essential study? Do you need funds to help facilitate a collaboration? Center members are welcome…

Led by UF team physician and center member Jay Clugston, UF will partner with the NFL better understand on-field head impact.

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…