Paper on Retaining Black Computer Science Students Co-Authored by CISE Chair Earns Best Paper Award at Respect 2020
A paper titled, “The iAAMCS Ecosystem: Retaining Blacks/African-Americans in CS Ph.D. Programs,” earned a best paper award at the 2020 Research on Equity and Sustained Participation in Engineering, Computing, and Technology (RESPECT) Conference. The paper was co-authored by Jeremy A. Magruder Waisome, Ph.D., a lecturer in the Department of Engineering Education, and Juan E. Gilbert, […]
Unraveling Genetic Mutations
Listen to Shannon Boye, Ph.D., an associate professor of pediatrics at the University of Florida, talk about her journey in academia and what led her to try gene therapy in the fight against a mutation causing babies to be born blind. Learn more about Unraveling Genetic Mutations.
Dr. Cammy Abernathy, University of Florida’s Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering Dean, on Techrides Podcast
Edwin Marcial, the host of Techrides Podcast, talks with Dr. Cammy Abernathy, dean of University of Florida’s Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering about UF’s response to COVID-19 and their plans for the fall semester, research that UF is conducting in the battle against COVID-19, how the university is adapting to more online distance learning, and […]
Morphogenesis Seeks Skin Cancer Patients for New Clinical Trials
Known for developing personalized immunotherapies for the treatment of cancer through novel cell and gene therapies, UF startup and UF Innovate | Sid Martin Biotech alumni company Morphogenesis, Inc., has received FDA approval to expand its human clinical trials into two more types of cancer. Using its ImmuneFx (IFx) cancer vaccine technology that initiates the power […]
Modest Exercise Can Cue Beneficial Changes to Body’s Internal Clock, Study in Mice Shows
Just an hour of exercise a day resets the muscular “clocks” in mice by about an hour, University of Florida Health researchers have found. If replicated in humans, the findings could have important implications for using exercise to reset disrupted biological clocks in older adults and night shift workers, the researchers said. Circadian rhythms, the […]
UF Study: Telehealth Individual Counseling for Weight Loss Maintenance Works
The COVID-19 pandemic has brought about an explosion in telehealth, but is it as effective as in-person treatment? A new University of Florida study published in JAMA Network Open found that rural residents who received individual telephone counseling for a year after participating in a weight loss program were able to maintain 100% of their […]
What’s Growing On: UF/IFAS SEEDIT Program
North Central Florida is quilt made of different industries that go beyond citrus and other commercial crops. The coronavirus pandemic took a hit on the economy, slowing down research for various industries such as livestock and aquaculture. To bring enterprising industries, the University of Florida has launched a new state program called SEEDIT. Research for […]
Brain Cancer Expert Elected to Academy of Science, Engineering and Medicine of Florida
Duane A. Mitchell, M.D., Ph.D., a leading expert in the search for ways to treat aggressive adult and pediatric brain tumors, has been elected a member of the Academy of Science, Engineering and Medicine of Florida. He was elected for “improving lives of adults and children with brain tumors through substantial advances in novel immunotherapies […]
AGTC Launches Nationwide Mobile Vision Testing Program for Patients Enrolled in Its Ongoing Phase 1/2 Clinical Trials
UF startup and UF Innovate | Sid Martin Biotech graduate Applied Genetic Technologies Corporation (AGTC), a biotechnology company conducting human clinical trials of adeno-associated virus (AAV)-based gene therapies for the treatment of rare diseases, announced the launch of an innovative mobile vision testing program to conduct follow-up assessments during the COVID-19 pandemic for patients enrolled […]
UF Innovate | The Hub Celebrates 10 Years Since Groundbreaking
UF Innovate | The Hub is a place where entrepreneurs take a creative idea and make it into a legitimate business. In the past 10 years, 108 businesses began their journey there. “There wasn’t any real formal support for entrepreneurs and first-time startup founders in the Gainesville area. This was a real boom for providing […]