Name: The Buoniconti Fund To Cure Paralysis Inc
Address: 1095 NW 14th Ter Ste 247, Miami, FL, 33136-1060, USA
Telephone: (305) 243-6001

In 1985, Barth A. Green, M.D. and NFL Hall of Fame linebacker Nick Buoniconti helped found The Miami Project to Cure Paralysis after Nick's son, Marc, sustained a spinal cord injury during a college football game. Today, The Miami Project is the world's most comprehensive spinal cord injury research center and a designated Center of Excellence at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. The Miami Project's international team is housed in the Lois Pope LIFE Center and includes more than 200 scientists, researchers and clinicians who take innovative approaches to the challenge of spinal cord injury. Committed to finding a cure for paralysis resulting from spinal cord injury and to seeing millions worldwide walk again, the Buoniconti family established The Buoniconti Fund to Cure Paralysis in 1992, a non-profit organization devoted to assisting The Miami Project achieve its national and international goals. The Miami Project's Human Clinical Trials Initiative will take discoveries found to be successful in laboratory studies and fast track them to human studies with the approval of the FDA. The Miami Project is well positioned and confident that we have the expertise, knowledge and drive to navigate through the process and continue to initiate new human clinical trials. Since its inception, The Miami Project has worked carefully and diligently towards these goals and the results show that the time is right to make these important steps into humans.FINDING CURES "Neurological disorders are the most complicated problems known to medical science today, and we require the best scientific minds and technology in order to find cures." W. Dalton Dietrich, Ph.D., scientific director, The Miami Project to Cure Paralysis. Injury to the central nervous system (CNS) has devastating effects on the structure and function of the brain and spinal cord. Since the early 1980s, immense research progress has been made and has given hope that injuries to the CNS will one day be repairable. Still, there is much that researchers need to learn about the complex processes that occur in the brain and spinal cord after injury, and how those processes can be changed or reversed. Miami Project investigators carry out a broad scope of research to address the consequences of neurological injuries. Their work is directed at the following areas: -Understanding what happens after CNS injury-Protecting the injured brain and spinal cord from further damage -Replacing dead nervous system cells (neurons and glia) -Promoting and guiding axon growth-Reestablishing essential circuitry-Preventing and treating complications-Maintaining maximum potential for recovery-Translating findings from laboratory research to clinical trials

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