Mary Bartlett Bunge, 92, died; Pioneer of neuroscience in the treatment of spinal cord injuries
She discovered new ways to promote nervous system regeneration, offering hope to countless paralyzed patients around the world.
Mary Bartlett Bunge, who with her husband Richard studied how the body responds to spinal cord injury and continued her work after her death in 1996, discovering finally a promising treatment to restore movement to millions of paralyzed patients, died in February. .17 years old, at home in Coral Gables, Florida. She was 92 years old.
The Miami Project to Cure Paralysis, a nonprofit research organization with which Dr. Bunge (pronounced BUN -ghee) was affiliated, announced the death.
“She was definitely the best woman in neuroscience, not only in the United States but in the world,” Dr. Barth Green, co-founder and dean of the Miami Project, said in a telephone interview.
Dr. For much of her career, Bunge focused on myelin, a mixture of proteins and fatty acids that coats nerve fibers, protecting them and increasing the speed at which they transmit signals.
< p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0"> Early in her career, she and her husband, whom she met while a graduate student at the University of Wisconsin in the 1950s, used new electron microscopes to describe how myelin grew around nerve fibers and how, subsequently, due to injury or disease. , it receded, in a process called demyelination.We are having difficulty recovering the content of the article.
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She discovered new ways to promote nervous system regeneration, offering hope to countless paralyzed patients around the world.
Mary Bartlett Bunge, who with her husband Richard studied how the body responds to spinal cord injury and continued her work after her death in 1996, discovering finally a promising treatment to restore movement to millions of paralyzed patients, died in February. .17 years old, at home in Coral Gables, Florida. She was 92 years old.
The Miami Project to Cure Paralysis, a nonprofit research organization with which Dr. Bunge (pronounced BUN -ghee) was affiliated, announced the death.
“She was definitely the best woman in neuroscience, not only in the United States but in the world,” Dr. Barth Green, co-founder and dean of the Miami Project, said in a telephone interview.
Dr. For much of her career, Bunge focused on myelin, a mixture of proteins and fatty acids that coats nerve fibers, protecting them and increasing the speed at which they transmit signals.
< p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0"> Early in her career, she and her husband, whom she met while a graduate student at the University of Wisconsin in the 1950s, used new electron microscopes to describe how myelin grew around nerve fibers and how, subsequently, due to injury or disease. , it receded, in a process called demyelination.We are having difficulty recovering the content of the article.
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