UF Health Neurosurgeon Awarded $38 Million Grant To Lead National Stroke Prevention Trial
The National Institutes of Health awarded a $38 million, five-year grant to Brian Hoh, M.D., M.B.A., the University of Florida’s chair of neurosurgery, to test two new prospective treatments for symptomatic intracranial arterial stenosis, a leading cause of ischemic stroke worldwide.
New Test Would Use DNA to Find Brain Tumors, Cancer
It’s being called a major breakthrough in the fight against cancer. Researchers have developed a blood test that can detect brain tumors... Read More
UF Neurosurgery Chair Elected President of Congress of Neurological Surgeons
University of Florida neurosurgery chair Brian Hoh, M.D., MBA, has been elected the 2020-21 president of the Congress of Neurological Surgeons, one of... Read More
UF Researchers Ask, ‘What if Oncologists Thought Like Ecologists?’
What do wildlife and cancer cells have in common? Quite a lot, argues a new article authored by University of Florida researchers.... Read More
UF Named New Member of Prestigious Pediatric Brain Tumor Consortium
When Sridharan Gururangan, FRCP, joined the University of Florida College of Medicine’s department of neurosurgery in 2016, he had a big goal... Read More
Twelve Leading Medical Centers Unite to Form Brain Tumor Research Collaborative
The UF Health-led ReMission Alliance Against Brain Tumors announced the names of twelve partner institutions from across the U.S. and Canada that... Read More
Combating Cancer
Scientists are using powerful magnets to learn how to better detect, treat and track the second leading cause of death worldwide, cancer.... Read More
Fourth Annual Lemon Ball Helps Fund Childhood Cancer Research
UF Health’s Brain Tumor Immunotherapy program will benefit from the annual Lemon Ball organized by Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation for Childhood Cancer.... Read More
An Alzheimer’s Study Used Electrostimulation to Evoke Vivid Memories – Here’s What It Could Mean
A group of researchers tested the use of deep brain stimulation to improve memory and cognition in individuals with Alzheimer’s disease (ADvance... Read More
UF Researcher Receives $250,000 Grant to Combat Pediatric Cancer
Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation awarded Dr. Catherine Flores, an assistant professor in the Department of Neurosurgery at the University of Florida, with... Read More
