"In the 40 years since Marc Buoniconti, then a college football linebacker at the Citadel, was paralyzed during a routine tackle, they have been told countless times that it was a problem that couldn't be fixed. The Buonicontis didn't listen. Instead, through the fund that bears their name, they have helped raise more than $550 million for The Miami Project to Cure Paralysis, and improved the lives of millions with spinal cord and brain injuries."
"When we see a challenge, we face it head-on and don't stop until we find a solution. It's that determination, that refusal to quit that's kept us going all these years." That drive has also led The Miami Project to expand its work beyond curing paralysis. Its research center at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine now also studies neurological diseases and disorders including Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease, and it is testing the brain-computer interface implant from Elon Musk's technology company Neuralink."
Marc Buoniconti suffered a paralyzing college football injury decades ago, prompting creation of the Buoniconti Fund to support The Miami Project to Cure Paralysis. The Buoniconti Fund has raised more than $550 million and contributed to improving lives of millions with spinal cord and brain injuries. Persistent determination and refusal to quit sustained long-term fundraising and research efforts. The Miami Project expanded its work to study Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases and to test a Neuralink brain-computer interface implant. The center developed practices such as nervous-system monitoring during anesthesia and therapeutic hypothermia for neuroprotection.
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