UF Health Cardiologist: COVID-19 Might Be a Disease of the Lungs and the Heart
As researchers continue to unravel the mysteries of COVID-19, they are increasingly realizing the disease caused by the novel coronavirus often involves more than the lungs that it ravages. It can have a devastating impact on the domain of the cardiologist: the heart. University of Florida Health cardiologist Carl J. Pepine, M.D., a professor in and former […]
Oragenics Inc. and Aragen Bioscience Enter Agreement to Accelerate Development of TerraCoV2, a COVID 19 Vaccine Candidate
UF startup and UF Innovate | Sid Martin Biotech graduate company Oragenics, Inc., a leader in the development of new antibiotics against infectious diseases and effective treatments for oral mucositis, announced that through its wholly-owned subsidiary, Noachis Terra, it has entered into an agreement with Aragen Bioscience, a leading contract research organization focused on accelerating pre-clinical biologics product […]
ImmuneFX Gene Therapy Could Be a Game-Changer for Cancer Treatment
UF startup and UF Innovate | Sid Martin Biotech alumni company Morphogenesis, Inc., a clinical-stage company that develops novel cell and gene therapies based out of Tampa, recently got FDA approval to expand human clinical trials with an innovative cancer vaccine. Grit Daily interviewed Morphogenesis CEO Dr. Patricia Lawman to get more information about this technology that could […]
Gilbert Elected As Member of the Academy of Science, Engineering and Medicine of Florida
Juan E. Gilbert, Ph.D., The Banks Family Preeminence Endowed Professor and chair of the UF Department of Computer & Information Science & Engineering (CISE), was recently elected as a member of the Academy of Science, Engineering and Medicine of Florida (ASEMFL). Dr. Gilbert was elected because of his pioneering human-centered computing research focused on societal issues […]
Quicker Reviews, Designated Funding Is Speeding COVID-19 Research Efforts at UF Health
University of Florida Health researcher Mark Brantly, M.D., and his team are working to evaluate a drug treatment for the novel coronavirus that might block the deadly inflammatory response caused by the disease that curtails the lungs’ ability to function. In the absence of any known therapies for COVID-19, Brantly wanted to open a clinical trial […]
Nvidia’s DGX A100 System Packs a Record Five petaFLOPS of Power
At its virtual GPU Technology Conference, Nvidia launched its new Ampere graphics architecture — and with it, the most powerful GPU ever made: The DGX A100. It’s the largest 7nm chip ever made, offering 5 petaFLOPS in a single node and the ability to handle 1.5 TB of data per second. Of course, unless you’re doing data science or […]
UF Researcher Among 2020 ASGCT Award Recipients
Mavis Agbandje-McKenna, Ph.D., a professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the University of Florida College of Medicine, is among the winners of 2020 Outstanding Achievement Award (OAA) which recognizes an American Society of Gene & Cell Therapy (ASGCT) Member who has achieved a pioneering research success, specific high-impact accomplishment, or a lifetime of significant […]
Research Snapshots: Drs. Ron Cohen and Vaughn Bryant
A study led by UF neuroscientists, Dr. Ron Cohen and Dr. Vaughn Bryant, published in Current HIV Research, demonstrated that individuals with past heavy alcohol use exhibit functional connectivity differences in the brain. Specifically, they showed decreased connectivity in frontoparietal networks, which play a key role in executive function, and increased connectivity to reward specific […]
Mainous elected to Academy of Science, Engineering and Medicine of Florida
Arch G. Mainous III, Ph.D., the chair of the department of health services research, management and policy and the Florida Blue endowed chair of health administration in the College of Public Health and Health Professions, has been elected to membership in the Academy of Science, Engineering and Medicine of Florida. Mainous was elected for his […]
Gunduz Inducted Into Prestigious UF Graduate Honor Society
Dr. Aysegul Gunduz, J. Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering associate professor, has been selected for induction into the 2020 class of the UF Graduate School Edward Alexander Bouchet Graduate Honor Society. The Bouchet Society, named for the first African-American to earn a Ph.D. in the United States (in physics at Yale in 1876), […]