Dr. Adrian Tyndall Named Associate Vice President for Strategic and Academic Affairs for UF Health
Adrian Tyndall, M.D., M.P.H., has been named to a new system-level role as associate vice president for strategic and academic affairs for... Read More
UF Health Enrolls First Patient in Clinical Trial Aimed at Creating New Treatment for COVID-19
University of Florida Health has enrolled its first patient in a clinical trial for Regeneron Pharmaceuticals’ monoclonal antibody cocktail to treat COVID-19,... Read More
Inventors Honored at Virtual Standing InnOvation Event
More than 200 innovators participated in a live-stream event and virtual happy hour to celebrate their achievements in fiscal year 2020. The... Read More
Trials Begin for a New Weapon Against Parkinson’s: Light
Light therapy can help lift moods, heal wounds, and boost the immune system. Can it improve symptoms of Parkinson’s disease, too? A... Read More
UF Researcher Works With Bionano Data to Provide Understanding of Repeat Expansion Disorders Causing Muscular Dystrophy and ALS
Bionano Genomics, Inc. announced that teams from the Mayo Clinic and from the University of Florida have separately released results generated with... Read More
Trio of Medications Showing Early Promise Against Coronavirus, UF Health Researchers Find
The race to find effective treatments for COVID-19 isn’t just about developing new drugs. University of Florida Health scientists are studying a... Read More
Five Questions for Michael S. Okun, M.D.
Michael S. Okun, M.D. is chair of Neurology, Adelaide Lackner professor, and executive director of the Norman Fixel Institute for Neurological Diseases... Read More
UF Neuroscientist Earns NIH Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award
A UF neuroscientist has earned a $1.86 million NIH award to further his lab’s research into the actin cytoskeleton, an integral component... Read More
New Study Shows Common Diabetes Drug Improves Symptoms in Genetic Form of ALS in Mice
University of Florida neuroscientists, Laura Ranum, Ph.D., and Tao Zu, Ph.D., showed in a mouse-model study that metformin, a widely prescribed drug... Read More
Dietary Changes May Help Ward Off Lupus, UF Health Researchers Find
A change in diet may protect against gut-bacteria dysfunction that leads to lupus in mice, University of Florida Health researchers have found.... Read More
