Miami Project to Cure Paralysis
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Infobox non-profit
| name = Miami Project to Cure Paralysis
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| type = medical
| founded_date = 1985
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| founder = Nick Buoniconti & Barth A. Green, M.D.
| location = Miami, Florida
, United States
| coordinates = 25°47′18.74"N 80°12′44.57"W
| origins =
| key_people = Marc A. Buoniconti, President
W. Dalton Dietrich, Ph.D.,Scientific Director
Suzanne M. Sayfie, Executive Director
Diana C. Berning, Administrative Director
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| mission = research and treatment of paralysis
| focus = spinal cord injury & tramatic brain injury
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| revenue = $23 million
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| num_employees = 250
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| owner = University of Miami
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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 250 scientists, researchers and clinicians who take innovative approaches to the challenge of spinal cord injury
. It was named in honor of Lois Pope
, who donated $10 million toward its construction, and of her charity Leaders in Furthering Education (LIFE). The building opened on October 26, 2000. Pope's gift also funds 20 LIFE Fellows for neurological research. The six-story 180000 sq ft (16,722.5 m²) building cost $28 million and was designed by MGE Architects. The block of NW 11th Avenue in front of the building has been named Buoniconti Drive.
| name = Miami Project to Cure Paralysis
| image =
| type = medical
| founded_date = 1985
| tax_id =
| registration_id =
| founder = Nick Buoniconti & Barth A. Green, M.D.
| location = Miami, Florida
Miami, Florida
Miami is a city located on the Atlantic coast in southeastern Florida and the county seat of Miami-Dade County, the most populous county in Florida and the eighth-most populous county in the United States with a population of 2,500,625...
, United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
| coordinates = 25°47′18.74"N 80°12′44.57"W
| origins =
| key_people = Marc A. Buoniconti, President
W. Dalton Dietrich, Ph.D.,Scientific Director
Suzanne M. Sayfie, Executive Director
Diana C. Berning, Administrative Director
| area_served =
| product =
| mission = research and treatment of paralysis
| focus = spinal cord injury & tramatic brain injury
| method =
| revenue = $23 million
| endowment =
| num_volunteers =
| num_employees = 250
| num_members =
| subsid =
| owner = University of Miami
University of Miami
The University of Miami is a private, non-sectarian university founded in 1925 with its main campus in Coral Gables, Florida, a medical campus in Miami city proper at Civic Center, and an oceanographic research facility on Virginia Key., the university currently enrolls 15,629 students in 12...
| non-profit_slogan =
| former name =
| homepage =
| dissolved =
| footnotes =
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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 250 scientists, researchers and clinicians who take innovative approaches to the challenge of spinal cord injury
Clinical Trials
The Miami Project’s Christine E. Lynn 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.The Buoniconti Fund
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.Lois Pope LIFE Center
The Center is located in the Schoninger research quadrangle at the University of Miami/Jackson Memorial Medical CenterJackson Memorial Hospital
Jackson Memorial Hospital is a non-profit, tertiary care teaching hospital and the major teaching hospital of the University of Miami Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine in Miami, Florida...
. It was named in honor of Lois Pope
Lois Pope
Lois Berrodin Pope is one of America's leading philanthropists. She is the widow of National Enquirer founder, Generoso Pope Jr....
, who donated $10 million toward its construction, and of her charity Leaders in Furthering Education (LIFE). The building opened on October 26, 2000. Pope's gift also funds 20 LIFE Fellows for neurological research. The six-story 180000 sq ft (16,722.5 m²) building cost $28 million and was designed by MGE Architects. The block of NW 11th Avenue in front of the building has been named Buoniconti Drive.