Fuller received a two-year $150,000 grant

David Fuller, Ph.D., an assistant professor in the department of physical therapy, received a two-year $150,000 grant from the National Institutes of Health to study the effect of female sex hormones on functional recovery of breathing after high cervical spinal cord injury. These experiments will help establish if gender hormones should be considered an important variable in basic science research, and if hormone therapy is an effective means of promoting recovery of breathing ability after a cervical spinal cord injury.