Assistant Professor Hang Jin Jo, PhD,  focuses on studying how the brain controls movements in healthy people, as well as in those with neurological impairments such as spinal cord injury and stroke. 

Assistant Professor Ghazala Saleem EdD, MS, OTR/L, joined the UB occupational therapy faculty in 2020. The overarching focus of her Brain Function and Recovery Lab is to identify and refine rapid and objective detection methods and reliable and cost-effective treatment in brain injury.

Rehabilitation Science faculty members are prominent researchers contributing to new knowledge to their fields.

This study stimulates the brain and spinal cord using state-of-the-art medical equipment to explore how movements are created, and how the body adapts to unexpected changes.

Toxoplasma gondii is transferred from eating undercooked meat or contact with cat feces leading to chronic infection with tissue cysts residing in skeletal muscle.  Researchers are investing how tissue cysts impair neuromuscular function and how amphiregulin mediates this effect.