UF Researchers Receive Funding to Address Pain in Older Adults
University of Florida College of Medicine – Jacksonville researchers were awarded a Florida Blue Foundation 2019 Quality of Patient Care Grant for $275,000 to implement a three-year project addressing pain management in older adults in Northeast Florida. The project is named the Aging and Integrative Pain Assessment and Management Initiative, or AI-PAMI. The work is […]
UF Team Hopes to Finish Designing Affordable Post-Disaster Housing by 2021
A UF team is working on a project, known as Advanced Modular Housing Design, which aims to provide a safe and affordable housing option for families that lost their homes to natural disasters. The team calls its housing units CORE+. “The project’s primary goal is to design sustainable, affordable and resilient post-disaster housing,” said Charles […]
UF Researchers Develop Risk Score to Predict Deaths From Heart Attacks, Stroke in Every U.S. County
The COVID-19 crisis has reinforced the fact that racial, income and social inequalities play an important role in health and disease. The same is true for heart health. Factors such as poverty, a shortage of health care providers and food deserts can all contribute to increased risk for heart disease, the leading cause of death […]
Creative Agency Helps Businesses Bring Their Brands and Ideas to Life
Juan Carlos Tafur had been working as a Creative Director at the University of Florida when he got the inspiration for Innova Leaf, a creative video agency offering professional animated video content, promotional video solutions, and different video production services. He noticed a gap in communication and a lack of creativity with certain learning and […]
Long-Studied Protein Could Be a Measure of Traumatic Brain Injury
Scientists at the Walter Reed Army Institute for Research (WRAIR) have recently demonstrated that cathepsin B, a well-studied protein important to brain development and function, can be used as a biomarker, or indicator of severity, for traumatic brain injury. Dr. Kevin K. W. Wang, director for Neurotrauma, Neuroproteomics & Biomarkers Research at the University of […]
UF Researchers Awarded $3.5 Million Grant to Study Outcomes With Genetic Information to Guide Blood Thinning Therapy
Researchers at the University of Florida have received a $3.5 million grant from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, or NHLBI, to study the effect of using genetic information to guide therapy after an angioplasty heart procedure to prevent heart attacks and strokes. “In previous studies, we have demonstrated the feasibility and clinical benefits […]
New Institute to Address Food Production and Sustainability at Global Scale
The University of Florida has announced the creation of the UF/IFAS Food Systems Institute, which will bring together the university’s top researchers to find solutions to feeding the world in a way that is economically and environmentally sustainable. The new Food Systems Institute will be led by Adegbola Adesogan, Ph.D., professor of ruminant nutrition in […]
UF College of Medicine Awarded New Pediatric Rheumatology Fellowship
The University of Florida College of Medicine, part of UF Health, has been awarded a grant to fund a pediatric rheumatology fellowship as part of a national effort to alleviate the desperate shortage of specialists nationally. The grant, by the Tampa-based Purple Playas Foundation and the Arthritis Foundation, provides $150,000 in matching funding for up […]
As Cases of Parkinson’s Disease Increase, Community Must Demand Funding, Change
The odds of a person developing Parkinson’s disease over a lifetime are 1 in 15. It is the fastest-growing neurodegenerative disease and is overtaking Alzheimer’s for the top spot. That stunning growth curve foreshadows bankruptcy for many health-care systems, said Dr. Michael Okun, of the Fixel Institute of Neurological Diseases and a leading international expert […]
The Future of Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Higher Ed
Mark Long, director of incubation services at UF Innovate, shared on The Place Makers podcast, episode 10, along with Pete Cramer, director of development at Wexford, and Jabir McKnight, co-founder | director of campus recruitment & business development at DREAMBEACON, what needs to be done in order to be more innovative and more entrepreneurial in […]