UF Receives U.S. DOE Funding for More Efficient Cooling for Data Centers
The University of Florida is among recipients of $40 million in funding by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) for 15 projects that will develop high-performance, energy efficient cooling solutions for data centers. Used to house computers, storage systems, and computing infrastructure, data centers account for approximately 2% of total U.S. electricity consumption while data center cooling can account for up to 40% of data center energy usage overall. The selected projects—located at national labs, universities, and businesses—seek to reduce the energy necessary to cool data centers.
AI Helps Create Better, Simpler Hepatitis, COVID-19 Tests
Going beyond pregnancy and COVID-19, the world could someday soon come to rely on at-home tests for many diseases thanks in part to AI-fueled improvements.
A UF Professor Emeritus of Medicine and an Engineering Alumna Elected for Florida Inventors Hall of Fame
A University of Florida ophthalmology professor emeritus who has led a decades-long effort to reverse genetic forms of vision loss and an engineering alumna who is a pioneer in the semiconductor polishing industry are among 10 new members of the Florida Inventors Hall of Fame announced today.
ASGCT Honors UF Scientist with 2023 Outstanding New Investigator Award
The American Society of Gene & Cell Therapy (ASGCT) has awarded the Outstanding New Investigator Award for 2023 to Manuela Corti, PhD from the University of Florida, in recognition of her contributions to the field of gene and cell therapy. Recipients of this award come from academia, research foundations, government, or industry.
Newly Discovered Probiotic Could Protect Caribbean Corals Threatened by Deadly, Devastating Disease
Researchers with the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History and the University of Florida have discovered the first effective bacterial probiotic for treating and preventing stony coral tissue loss disease, or SCTLD, a mysterious ailment that has devastated Florida’s coral reefs since 2014 and is rapidly spreading throughout the Caribbean.
UF Research Foundation Names 2023 Professors
The University of Florida Research Foundation has named 34 of the university’s most productive and promising faculty members as UFRF Professors for 2023.
UF Diabetes Institute Director To Be Honored by the American Diabetes Association
University of Florida College of Medicine researcher and UF Diabetes Institute Director Mark Atkinson, Ph.D., is the recipient of the American Diabetes Association’s 2023 Harold Rifkin Award for Distinguished International Service in the Cause of Diabetes.
UF Will Spearhead DARPA Mission To Pioneer Crucial Biomanufacturing in Space
With the goal of creating a resilient supply chain for a sustained presence in space, researchers at the University of Florida (UF) are bioengineering microbes for experimentation on the International Space Station (ISS) they hope will reliably produce biopolymers, nutraceuticals, and antibiotics in variable gravity conditions.
3D-Printing the Brain’s Blood Vessels With Silicone Could Improve and Personalize Neurosurgery – New Technique Shows How
UF Innovate inventor, Thomas Angelini, an associate professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, and Senthilkumar Duraivel, a Ph.D. candidate in materials science and engineering at UF's Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering, recently published research into a new technique for creating a replica of the brain using 3D printing
UF Researchers Create Method To Predict Leukemia Drug Complications
A team of University of Florida researchers, led by UF Inventor Jatinder Lamba, Ph.D., associate dean of research and graduate education and a professor in the UF College of Pharmacy, made a comprehensive pharmacogenomics evaluation of key genes involved in the pathways of several commonly used drugs to treat acute lymphoblastic leukemia, or ALL, the most common type of leukemia in children.
