Updates

Branden Nguyen Awarded UF HHP Endowed Scholarship

September 2022

Branden Nguyen was awarded the UF Dr. Allen, Dr. Holyyoak, and Dr. Varnes Endowed Scholarship. 

Congratulations, Branden! 

Branden Nguyen Awarded UF T32 BREATHE Fellowship

May 2022

Branden Nguyen was awarded the T32 Breathing Research and Therapeutics Training Fellowship from the UF Department of Physical Therapy. BReathing REsearch And THErapeutics (BREATHE) is focused on the respiratory neuromuscular system, emphasizing the discovery of new knowledge and its translation to severe clinical disorders that compromise breathing capacity, stability and/or airway defense.

Congratulations, Branden! 

Link to learn more about Branden: https://breathe.phhp.ufl.edu/training/trainees/branden-nguyen-ms/

Branden Nguyen Awarded APS Central Nervous System Section Research Recognition Award

April 2021

Branden Nguyen was awarded the APS Central Nervous System Research Recognition Award at Experimental Biology 2021 in Philadelphia, PA. His research was also selected for an oral presentation in the featured topic "Exercise and Cancer Care: From the Bench to the Clinic" at Experimental Biology 2022. 

Congratulations, Branden! 

Ryan Montalvo Awarded ACSM Doctoral Student Research Grant

June 2022

Ryan Montalvo received an ACSM Doctoral Student Research Grant entitled "Determining Underlying Cardioprotective Mechanisms of Exercise Related to Doxorubicin Accumulation in Mitochondria." 

Jay Patel Awarded APS Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship and Selected for UF University Scholars Program

May 2022

The APS SURF program recruits undergraduate students to complete 10-weeks of research in the laboratory of an established APS investigator.

The UF University Scholars Program serves as an exceptional capstone to the academic careers of UF students. Only 200 students from all disciplines are selected through a competitive process to participate in this program.

Congratulations, Jay! 

Ryan Montalvo Awarded AHA Predoctoral Fellowship

December 2021

Ryan Montalvo received an American Heart Association Predoctoral Fellowship entitled "Regulation of Cardiac Mitochondrial Turnover Following Exercise and Doxorubicin Treatment".

Congratulations, Ryan! 

Ryan Montalvo Awarded UFAHA Angulo Scholarship

June 2021

Felicidades to our 2021-2022 Angulo scholarship recipient Ryan Montalvo! Awarded from the University of Florida Association of Hispanic Alumni. Ryan and several other Gators are looking forward to the awards ceremony at the Hispanic Alumni Weekend in Gainesville later this year.

https://ufaha.org

Ashley Smuder Awarded UF 2021 Excellence Award

 May 11, 2021

Congratulations to Ashley Smuder, Ph.D., who received a UF 2021 Excellence Award recognizing outstanding tenure-track assistant professors. 

Read more: http://hhp.ufl.edu/articles/2021/excellence-award.html

Vivian Doerr Awarded a UF T32 Neuromuscular Plasticity Training Grant Position

May 2021

The Interdisciplinary Training Program in Rehabilitation and Neuromuscular Plasticity, funded by the National Institutes of Health’s National Center for Medical Rehabilitation Research was initiated in 2003 to help build a critical mass of well-trained scientists prepared to conduct innovative rehabilitation research. This pre-doctoral training program is unique in that it emphasizes the interaction and joint training of rehabilitation clinicians and basic scientists with a common interest in translational research in neuromuscular plasticity.

Congratulations, Vivian! 

Branden Nguyen Awarded UF APK Distinguished Doctoral Fellowship

March 2021

This APK Doctoral Fellowship is awarded to support students that show substantial promise of being research productive and could benefit from release time from teaching to further their research.

Congratulations, Branden! 

Fuller and Smuder Awarded NIH R01 for Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy

Drs. Dave Fuller and Ashley Smuder were recently awarded an NIH R01 grant to study the impact of hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBO) on respiratory neuromuscular recovery after spinal cord injury.  They will investigate their hypothesis that HBO, delivered in the acute phases after cervical spinal cord injury, attenuates diaphragm atrophy and dysfunction, reduces cervical spinal cord pathology, and improves respiratory neuromuscular recovery.  Dr. Smuder’s laboratory will evaluate diaphragm muscle function, and Dr. Fuller’s laboratory will evaluate neural function.

Dr. Ashley Smuder is leading Special Issue "Redox Control of Cardiac and Skeletal Muscle Function" with Antioxidants

A special issue of Antioxidants (ISSN 2076-3921). This special issue belongs to the section "Health Outcomes of Antioxidants and Oxidative Stress".

Neuromuscular Plasticity Nines: From Genes to Brain to Nerve to Muscle to Behavior

Vivian Doerr will present her research titled: “Prevention of Doxorubicin-Induced Autophagy Attenuates Oxidative Stress and Skeletal Muscle Dysfunction” in the Neuronines Seminar Series

Dr. Ashley Smuder Receives the Giles F. Filley Memorial Award for Excellence in Respiratory Physiology and Medicine

This esteemed award from the American Physiological Society is given to an early career scientist in respiratory physiology.