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Erika Moore First in UF Engineering To Receive Prestigious 3M Award

Sara Dagen — Tue, 16 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Erika Moore, Ph.D., the Rhines Rising Star Larry Hench Assistant Professor of Materials Science & Engineering (MSE), is the first Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering faculty member to be selected for the 3M Non-Tenured Faculty Award (NTFA).

The 3M NTFA was created over 25 years ago and recognizes outstanding young faculty who excel in STEM research while demonstrating academic leadership. The award is intended to help them achieve tenure, remain in their teaching positions, and conduct research. Awardees are nominated by 3M researchers.

“I’ve recently become familiar with Dr. Moore’s work at the intersection of biomaterials science and immunology. I also attended her February 3M Tech Forum seminar, during which I learned more about the research focus of her lab and current projects,” said Federica Sgolastra, Ph.D., Sr. Technical Supervisor of Biosciences at 3M and one of Dr. Moore’s nominators. “I was highly impressed by how much she had already accomplished in such a short time.

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Ancestry Matters . . . Even at the Cellular Level

Sara Dagen — Thu, 17 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Welcome to From Florida, a podcast where you’ll learn how minds are connecting, great ideas are colliding and groundbreaking innovations become a reality because of the University of Florida.

This year, the theme of Black History Month is Black health and wellness, which makes it an ideal time to learn more about the work of today’s guests on the From Florida podcast. We know that race is a social construct, but we also know that different diseases impact different populations in different ways. Despite this, the samples used for medical research are often not representative of diverse populations.

That disparity is at the heart of the studies being conducted by Dr. Josephine Allen and Dr. Erika Moore. Dr. Allen is an associate professor and the Genzyme Professor of Materials Science and Engineering. And Dr. Moore is the Rhines Rising Star Larry Hench Assistant Professor of Materials Science and Engineering. Both are faculty members at UF’s Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering, and both are African American. Dr. Allen and Dr. Moore, thank you for joining us today.

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Even at the Cellular Level, Ancestry Matters

Sara Dagen — Mon, 15 Nov 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Diseases impact different populations with varying prevalence, which is reflected in health disparities that are seen for illnesses like lupus, cancer, and cardiovascular disease. To create effective medical treatments, researchers need representative population samples.

Even though disease impacts everybody, medical research samples are often not representative of diverse populations.

In a new article published by Nature, UF professors Erika Moore, Josephine Allen, and Connie Mulligan argue it is imperative to consider ancestry in cell samples for medical research because ancestral differences are present in many diseases. Ancestry typically refers to biological or genetic characteristics, but sociocultural factors, such as language and family history, also impact ancestry. The authors argue that accounting for a person’s ancestry will improve the effectiveness of treatment for patients of all backgrounds.

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