The Miami Project to cure paralysis--lecture & tour.

Hosted by the Foundation for Physical Therapy.

Students attending the National Student Conclave will have the opportunity to visit The Miami Project (TMP), a spinal cord injury research center housed at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. The Miami Project's international team of more than 200 scientists, researchers, and clinicians take innovative approaches to the challenge of spinal cord injury. The tour is limited to the first 30 NSC registrants and will take place on Thursday, October 29, 2009, from 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm. Transportation will be provided.

The visit will include a tour of the Neuromotor Rehabilitation Research Laboratory and other selected laboratories and will feature lectures by Edelle Field-Fote, PT, PhD ("Practice and Plasticity: How Training and Electrical Stimulation Influence Motor Recovery and Neural Restoration after SCI"); Christine Thomas, PhD ("Neuromuscular Weakness, Fatigue, and Spasticity after SCI"); Daniel Liebl, PhD ("CNS Regeneration Following Injury and Disease: Neurogenesis, Axon Growth and Guidance, and Synapse Formation"); Helen Bramlett, PhD ("Limiting Secondary Injury Mechanisms in Individuals with SCI, TBI, and Polytrauma"); and Pantelis Tsoulfas, PhD ("The Role of Neurotrophins in SCI Repair and Stem Cell Transplantation").

Special thanks to Hocoma Inc, USA for sponsoring this event.