Nadine Kerr PhD

Nadine A. Kerr, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor at The Miami Project to Cure Paralysis in the Department of Neurological Surgery at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. She received her B.A. degree at George Washington University and Ph.D. in Neuroscience in the Translational Track under the training of Drs. Robert W. Keane and W. Dalton Dietrich from the University of Miami.

As a Ph.D. candidate, she received an NIH F31 fellowship for her thesis work which examined the role of the innate immune response and cell death mechanisms in Traumatic Brain Injury induced pulmonary dysfunction. She completed her postdoctoral work with Dr. Helen Bramlett in the Department of Neurological Surgery at the University of Miami, where she studied gut-brain axis dysfunction after stroke.

She started her faculty position at The Miami Project to Cure Paralysis at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine in 2022, where she currently investigating mechanisms of systemic organ dysfunction after Central Nervous System injury.