Heart Alert Early detection is key when it comes to heart attacks. Now the University of Miami Health System is conducting a clinical trial on a device designed to track significant changes in the heart’s electrical signal and alert patients to seek medical attention—even if they aren’t experiencing obvious or typical symptoms. The investigational study […]
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From Research to Results
A $20 million National Institutes of Health grant has enabled the University of Miami to establish the Miami Clinical and Translational Science Institute in order to improve health outcomes in South Florida and beyond. Allocated over five years, the prestigious Clinical and Translational Science Award places the University in an elite research consortium of 60 […]
Studying Creepy Crawlers to Save Lives
Citizen ’Cane Studying Creepy Crawlers to Save Lives Insects will always be one spindly-legged step ahead of us, says Adriana Troyo Rodríguez, Ph.D. ’07, who’s been a fanatic follower of arthropods for as long as she can recall. As a bug-obsessed child, she collected beetles, spiders, grasshoppers—whatever she could get her hands on in her […]
Rocking the Red Planet
Citizen ’Cane Rocking the Red Planet From her undergraduate days studying mechanical and aerospace engineering in Miami through her master’s degree projects at M.I.T., Missouri-raised Erisa K. Hines, B.S.M.E. ’02, dreamed of exploring space. That opportunity arose in 2006, when she was hired by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory at Caltech. Just five years later she […]
Historic First Step
Miami Project begins FDA-approved Schwann cell trial for spinal cord injury patients With 27 years of promising research came new hope for the new year. In December doctors at The Miami Project to Cure Paralysis performed the first-ever Food and Drug Administration-approved Schwann cell transplantation on a patient with a recent spinal cord injury. The […]
