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Building Digital Twin Tools To Investigate Environmental Threats to Health

A UF research team is developing Florida’s Digital Twin, a digital replica of Florida that can model the effects of natural disasters and future health threats, to understand the complexity of how environmental factors affect human health, with a grant from the NIH's National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences.

NCI Grant Supports UF Health Cancer Center Epigenetics Research

Richard Bennett, Ph.D., a research associate professor in the Division of Hematology/Oncology in the UF College of Medicine, has received a prestigious five-year, $850,000 grant from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) to support research investigating epigenetic mechanisms of cancer.

New $7.7 Million Grant To Propel Search for Drugs for Rare Brain Disorder

Rumbaugh and a team of scientists from the institute have been awarded a five-year grant from the National Institute of Mental Health worth $7.7 million to work toward a treatment. Their goal is to create a pill that restores healthy SYNGAP1 gene production, thereby boosting neuroplasticity, or the ability of the brain to form circuits and connections.